Bug#650462: gnome-pty-helper: Producing zombies and corrupts UTMP.

[Michael Biebl]

On 11.12.2011 17:12, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Downgrading to libvte9_0.24.3-3, but keeping lxterminal_0.1.11-1,
>> restores correct functionality: no zombie process, and valid UTMP
>> and WTMP entries.
> 
> Curious, apparently the path to gnome-pty-helper is currently not
> correctly set in libvte9 [1]. This would explain the incorrect utmp/wtmp
> entries. Not quite sure what you meant with "corrupted".

The squeeze version apparently has the correct path:

# strings /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 | fgrep /gnome-pty-helper
/usr/lib/libvte9/gnome-pty-helper
# ls /usr/lib/libvte9/gnome-pty-helper -la
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 10064 30. Aug 05:00 /usr/lib/libvte9/gnome-pty-helper

In contrast to sid:
# strings /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 | fgrep /gnome-pty-helper
/usr/lib/vte/gnome-pty-helper
# ls -la /usr/lib/vte/gnome-pty-helper
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/vte/gnome-pty-helper: No such file or directory

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