> I can reproduce this easily, although not every time. Ah, thats good to hear, as it means I am not going completely mad, thanks! :)
> Running 10.2 under KDE, with bash as a default shell: > start xterm from a KDE 'konsole', then move to within the xterm > and try closing it (^D or exit). More often than not the xterm > will block and stay open, the bash process within goes <defunct>. As you can reproduce this, is it possible for you to find out if the issue is with bash or xterm ? i.e. if you change the shell to /bin/sh then does it still do it ? That would help track it down... > There is no need to reboot, just kill -9 the hanging xterm processes > and the init will clear the zombies. Thats saved me a lot of time ;) I had this idea that zombies will only go away on a reboot. -pete. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
