Package: gnome-session Version: 2.30.0-1 Severity: normal gnome-session relies on the default SIGCHLD behavior to get the results of waitpid() relatively early in its launch.
However, it never explicitly demands the default handler. So if it is exec'ed from a process which has opted to ignore SIGCHLD, and it inherits that ignore, it will run forever in a tight waitpid() loop (according to strace). So somewhere early in its existence, gnome-session should explicitly demand the default signal handler for SIGCHLD. (yes, processes exec'ing gnome-session should probably not ask for SIGCHLD to be ignored, but not every process can predict what it will be exec'ing. Since gnome-session relies on the default behavior, and can tell when SIGCHLD would be ignored, gnome-session should explicitly request the default behavior from the system) --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org