[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#354065: xfce4-terminal: it lefts some zombie processes

[Emil Nowak]

Package: xfce4-terminal
Version: 0.2.4-5
Severity: normal

Sometimes after logging out from remote ssh session I have just text sayin
"logout" and xfce4-terminal doesn't return back to local shell.
Pressing ctrl+c doesn't help here. So I was just closing those hanged-up
windows of xfce4-terminal.

After few days I realized that I have a lot of gnome-pty-helper processes
running. So I closed all terminals, but nothing has changed.
So I closed my Xsession, and even without X11 running those gnome-pty-helper
procesees were there:
$ ps -a u |grep gnome-pty-helper
emil     15859  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     15949  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     18056  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     20248  0.0  0.2   2952   524 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     21428  0.0  0.2   2952   516 tty2     S    Feb17   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil      5049  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil      9111  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     10720  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     14242  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     14304  0.0  0.2   2952   556 tty2     S    Feb20   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     16506  0.0  0.2   2952   648 tty2     S    Feb21   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     19443  0.0  0.2   2952   748 tty2     S    00:19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     19815  0.0  0.3   2952   808 tty2     S    03:19   0:00 gnome-pty-helper
emil     19915  0.0  0.2   2184   712 tty2     R+   03:39   0:00 grep gnome-pty-helper

gnome-pty-helper is a part of libvte4, and xfce4-terminal is using this
libary.
I don't have any gnome programs, and xfce4-terminal is only terminal emulator
I have in my system, so those processes must be some forked procesess of
xfce4-terminal. There is of course some posibilty that this could be libvte4
bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0        1.10.3-1              The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6              2.3.6-1               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2          1.0.2-3               The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-2        0.60-5                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.60-5                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexo-0.3-0       0.3.1.2alpha-r19548-2 Library with extensions for Xfce
ii  libfontconfig1     2.3.2-1.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.1.10-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.8.6-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.8.12-1              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6            6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5        5.5-1                 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.10.3-1              Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.8rel-5            PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notific 0.8-1                 library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte4            1:0.11.18-1           Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6           6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxcursor1        1.1.3-1               X cursor management library
ii  libxext6           6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxfce4util-1     4.2.3.2-1             Utility functions library for Xfce
ii  libxfcegui4-3      4.2.3-1               Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii  libxft2            2.1.8.2-3             FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6             6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1       6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxrandr2         6.9.0.dfsg.1-4        X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.0.2-1           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3-9             compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xfce4-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-1-utils                  0.60-5     simple interprocess messaging syst

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