[arch-general] Defunct processes left behind for screen and firefox

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 06 Oct 2009 18:40 +0300, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM, David Houston <root at crankyadmin.net> wrote:
> > I Wonder weather it is your screen augments. Try using just -r rather than -RR
> >
> > Dave
> > -------------
> > root at crankyadmin.net
> > cranky at archlinux.us
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
> > <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
> >>> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>    Hello all!
> >>>>
> >>>>    I'm having the following issue: after opening and closing some
> >>>> shells within the same screen session, I'm left with a bunch of
> >>>> defunct bash processes, that screen doesn't seem to wait for... Is
> >>>> there any issue with screen?
> >>>>
> >>>>    Or is there any issue in general, as Firefox plugin FireGPG seems
> >>>> to do the same with gpg. (Which it didn't on Debian.)
> >>>
> >>> I've never noticed this myself. Are you sure you're actually exiting
> >>> screen and not just detaching?
> >>
> >>    Bellow is the output of `ps axf`. The problem is that screen
> >> does't collect properly the defunct bash processes.
> >>
> >> 17030 ?        S      0:00 urxvt -title x-shell -e
> >> /home/ciprian/.bin/x-console -- screen -RR
> >> 17032 pts/1    Ss+    0:00  \_ screen -RR
> >> 17036 ?        Ss     0:00      \_ SCREEN -RR
> >> 17037 pts/2    Rs     0:00          \_ /bin/bash
> >> 17137 pts/2    R+     0:00          |   \_ ps axf
> >> 17044 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17046 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17048 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17050 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17051 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17054 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17055 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17057 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> >> 17060 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 
> 
>     Strange enough, it seems that only when using screen under X, it
> behaves like this... (Directly in a VT works ok.)

I imagine it would have something to do with x-console.

`urxvt -e screen` works fine for me.

I just noticed something odd... When I enter that command into a urxvt
window with screen running, a new shell in the current screen will open
rather than a new urxvt window with a new screen.