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

[Michael Biebl]

On 11.12.2011 18:35, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> söndag den 11 december 2011 klockan 17:12 skrev Michael Biebl detta:
>> On 29.11.2011 23:54, Mats Erik Andersson 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".
> 
> Probably "incomplete" would have been more apropriate in this title.
> Looking into "libvte.so.9" I can also see the faulty path to "gnome-pty-helper".

[..]

> Also here "pts/2" is missing, although existent and active,
> being the most recent invokation of all; incomplete WTMP.

The missing utmp entries are most certainly due to the incorrect
gnome-pty-helper path. Not sure yet about the lxterminal zombie processes.

Would you mind testing 1:0.28.2-3 packages with a fixed libdir path?
I can provide binaries, if you want. Just tell me your architecture.

Michael
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