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

[Ciprian Dorin, Craciun]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

    My x-console has nothing to do with anything inside ArchLinux.
It's just a customized script that launches an urxvt with a given
title and exporting some variables.

    Ciprian.