Bug#399462: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#399462: xfce4-utils: Simple command rises CPU utilization permanently

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:34 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:43:07PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> > The following command:
> 
> > $ xfterm4 -fg red3 -bg honeydew2 -e /bin/su -
> 
> > rises the CPU utilization permanently to something like:
> 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >  1935 jtocanci  25   0  111m  15m 9708 R 51.3  1.5   0:19.78 gnome-terminal
> 
> > The command should show a Password prompt, but it doesn't. It just
> > hangs eating CPU.
> 
> > In my case xfterm4 runs gnome-terminal:
> 
> I can't reproduce this with xfce4-terminal though it doesn't run the su
> inside xfce4-terminal if I do do that.

I can't reproduce this either. I get the exact same result, a
gnome-terminal without the su command.

What happens if you run the command with gnome-terminal.wrapper instead
of xfterm4? 

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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