Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Shinanyaku <> | Subject | Re: X11 or Kernel problem? | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:15:51 -0400 (EDT) |
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> Gokhan UNEL graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > > hello friends, > > > > please have a look to this: > > > > pcistatlas:~# w > > 10:39am up 2 days, 28 min, 13 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.05 > > User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what > > engin tty1 Fri 8am 26:03 2:17 startx [ old utmp entries deleted ] > > root ttyp6 10:36am 1 pine > > > > > > > > Note that ttyp6 is used 3 times. anyone noticed this?
Ahh geeezzz. I've had this effect for (literally) a year. Just recently (since I upgraded my libc, I think), they became far less frequent.
Apparently there are a few situations where a program controlling a psuedo-tty (that also manages utmp) dies and never closes out the tty. xterm seems to be the worst culprit. I can easily force this effect by opening an xterm on my Win95 box (using X-Win32) and then killing it by clicking the X icon on the window.
Unfortunately the effect happens elsewhere and sometimes even if I type "logout" in my xterm (though rarely).
The long and short of it? I gave up on trying to fix it months ago; after I got the newest versions of everything related I could think of and recompiling them (X11, procps, kernel, libc, xterm, etc ...) had absolutely no effect.
> > > > cheers.. > > gokhan unel > > > > info: compaq488 + slackware3.0(elf) + __ALL__ updates mentioned in > > "changes" file. > > > > >
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