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

[Michael Biebl]

On 29.11.2011 23:54, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> Package: libvte9
> Version: 0.28.2-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> When using lxterminal_0.1.11-1 and libvte9_0.28.2-1 together with either of
> openbox, dwm, or wmii, each invokation of lxterminal produzes one zombie
> process and one live process. In addition,  /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp
> are corrupted.
> 
> 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.
> 

I tried with libvte from unstable and was not able to reproduce this issue.
Could you please upgrade and test 1:0.28.2-3.



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