freebsd stable - Aug 2003 - hung processes in STABLE

For the past three weeks (this is really a guess as I just noticed it
last week) I have been seeing many processes started in terminal
windows that are no longer in existence. They were started using
something like:
gnome-terminal -x weather.pl -wr
where weather.pl is a simple Perl script that prints a text file and
periodically updates it by clearing the screen and re-writing the file
to get the latest data.

When the terminal session is terminated (by logging out of the
session), the Perl process is left running in an IWs+ state and
it can't be killed. This did not happen in the past. It slowly eats up
resources, especially pseudo-terminals.

Any idea what might be causing this?
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:54, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> For the past three weeks (this is really a guess as I just noticed it
> last week) I have been seeing many processes started in terminal
> windows that are no longer in existence. They were started using
> something like:
> gnome-terminal -x weather.pl -wr
> where weather.pl is a simple Perl script that prints a text file and
> periodically updates it by clearing the screen and re-writing the file
> to get the latest data.
> 
> When the terminal session is terminated (by logging out of the
> session), the Perl process is left running in an IWs+ state and
> it can't be killed. This did not happen in the past. It slowly eats up
> resources, especially pseudo-terminals.
> 
> Any idea what might be causing this?
I'm seeing this on -STABLE, too.  Try rebuilding vte and gnometerminal. 
I tend to thing there might have been some change on -STABLE that may
have triggered this.  I'm not seeing the same behavior on -CURRENT with
the same versions of vte and gnometerminal, though I just set up that
machine, so all binaries have been recently compiled.

Joe

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