I noticed when opening my xfce terminal as a regular user, then changing to root to modify a few config files with nano, if I close the terminal without first exiting nano, my CPU usage would jump to nearly 100%. I checked my list of processes, and sure enough, nano was never killed when the terminal was closed. This only happens when su 'ing from a regular user account to root. If I open nano as regular user, then close the terminal w/o exiting nano, it kills the process. Not sure if this is a nano bug..or an issue with the terminals. I then tested with several other terminals. Here are the results: konsole: doesn't kill nano xterm: doesn't kill nano xfterm4: doesn't kill nano gnome-terminal: OK ..kills nano process aterm: OK ..kills nano process Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open xterm, konsole, or xfterm4. 2. su (switch to root) 3. run nano (either with a specified file..or by itself) 4. close the terminal without exiting nano. Actual Results: The nano process is not killed and its CPU usage jumps to 90-100%. Expected Results: The terminal should kill nano when it is closed..even without first exiting nano. Here's the first few lines of 'top' after closing terminal: top - 22:14:59 up 9 days, 3:28, 5 users, load average: 0.48, 0.29, 0.35 Tasks: 112 total, 2 running, 110 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 68.1% us, 31.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 513772k total, 413052k used, 100720k free, 33888k buffers Swap: 522072k total, 76756k used, 445316k free, 158468k cached Kill PID 6658 with signal [15]: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6658 root 25 0 4228 3380 676 R 94.2 0.7 0:24.89 nano
you neglected to mention what version of nano you're using or post `emerge info` like you were supposed to
sorry...I had intended to....just forgot... * app-editors/nano : [ ] 1.2.4 (0) [ I] 1.3.4 (0) [M~ ] 1.3.5 (0) [M~ ] 1.3.6 (0) Here's my entire 'emerge info': Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#2, Apr 5 2005, 16:38:26)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
give 1.3.6 a shot, iirc they fixed a bug with nano ignoring input/signals between 1.3.5 and 1.3.6
This does not happen with nano-1.3.6. Maybe it should be unmasked now??
i'll prob move it into stable in a bit
