Bug 36566 – having multiple gnome-terminals open at once, if I ^c or abruptly exit gnome-terminal, defunct bash zombied processes stay around.

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lance Lassetter 2003-12-27 00:22:11 UTC]

zombied processes with gnome-terminal.

with multiple gnome-terminals open if i ^c or close a gnome-terminal with multiple tabs, zombied processes of bash appear, as much as 4 at a time sometimes.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use xtail with one gnome-terminal, open multiple other gnome-terminals
2. close gnome-terminal with multiple tabs or use ctrl-c to exit a terminal that is doing something
3. chkzps which basically is:

#!/bin/bash
                                                                                                                  
ps aux|grep Z|grep -v grep

Actual Results:  
multiple zombied bash processes would show, sometimes just 1, sometimes up to 4.

they don't seem to use any system resources and are put to rest once I exit all
gnome-terminals, which can be a pain as i use xtail with one gnome-terminal to
tail multiple log files at once.

Expected Results:  
no zombied processes in the running system.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23_pre8-gss)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.23_pre8-gss i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://gentoo.noved.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apm crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg nls pdflib
png xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts aalib bonobo svga X
gpm libwww python esd imlib motif opengl mozilla -kde -qt sdl tcltk ppds gtk2
3dnow mbox oci8 openal transcode sse pam java gtk gnome mmx quicktime ssl avi
truetype spell cdr dvd flash perl usb oss ncurses oggvorbis tcpd cups"

[Comment 1 Lance Lassetter 2003-12-27 06:31:08 UTC]

Created attachment 22707 [details]
screenshot of gnome-terminal with zombied bash process

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-12-30 09:36:21 UTC]

hmm and if you use more conservative CFLAGS ? 

I can't reproduce it.

[Comment 3 Lance Lassetter 2003-12-30 11:17:25 UTC]

i had the same problem with conservative cflags for athlonxp, i.e. the standard ones suggested for athlonxp and gcc 3.2 that are in make.conf, the same problem occurs.  is this a security risk?

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2004-08-19 16:16:08 UTC]

very old & i can't reproduce it. no further reports.