If you open a shell/terminal in X and open nano or top as root (important!), then close the shell w/o exiting nano or top prior, nano/top still stays in mem and goes to 100% CPU. I am no expert on this, but as both apps show this behaviour and I think they both depend on ncurses, I rather think it is ncurses fault. sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r1 and everything else newest ~x86 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.4-rc2-love1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4-rc2-love1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -s" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -frename-registers -fomit-frame-pointer -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest prelink sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/lportage" SYNC="rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga directfb doc dv dvb dvd dvdr encode ext-png ext-zlib faad fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imlib ipv6 javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls nocd nptl nvidia oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt qtmt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex threads tiff transcode truetype usb v4l videos wmf x86 xfs xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17878 ***
