Public bug reported:

# Context

I've been using /usr/bin/script quite a lot for about 4 years (since
about Ubuntu 12.04, maybe before). It always worked without problem.

I'm using several script instance most of the time, in several
terminals.

Reproducible: randomly, once every few days.

Problem happens since Ubuntu 16.04. Never seen before (12.04 12.10 13.04
13.10 14.04 14.10 15.04 15.10).

# Expected

Continued operation, terminal running programs normally, little CPU
used.

# Observed

Suddenly, terminal freezes. 
Other tabs of same terminal window not affected.
Top shows script consumes 100% CPU.

Strace shows an endless stream of this line:

poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 10)    = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])

/proc/*/fd shows what file descriptor it is:

total 0
dr-x------ 2 stephane stephane  0 mars  16 20:03 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 stephane stephane  0 mars  16 20:03 ..
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 0 -> /dev/pts/17 (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 1 -> /dev/pts/17 (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:03 2 -> /dev/pts/17 (deleted)
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 3 -> /dev/ptmx
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 4 -> /dev/pts/21
lrwx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 5 -> anon_inode:[signalfd]
l-wx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 6 -> /somewhere/mylogfile.txt
l-wx------ 1 stephane stephane 64 mars  16 20:15 7 -> 
/somewhere/mylogfile_timings.txt

What can we do?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: bsdutils 1:2.27.1-6ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-13.29-generic 4.4.5
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Mar 16 20:04:02 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/script
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-03 (41 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160203)
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial

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