From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14474: 24.3.50; Zombie subprocesses (again) Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:49:08 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2sevcwb.fsf@web.de> References: <87ppwevddb.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369525817 14829 80.91.229.3 (25 May 2013 23:50:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:17 +0000 (UTC) To: 14474@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 26 01:50:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOE2-0001L3-HX for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOE1-0001ea-Om for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgODt-0001aV-19 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgODn-0004qu-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46502) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UgODn-0004qj-8Z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOEo-0002F6-7Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:51:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Michael Heerdegen Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14474 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14474-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14474.13695258268549 (code B ref 14474); Sat, 25 May 2013 23:51:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14474) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 May 2013 23:50:26 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34860 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOED-0002Dq-Lt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:55935) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UgOEB-0002DY-QG for 14474@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 19:50:24 -0400 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([82.113.98.88]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LxfOx-1UMyfL3vTf-0178em; Sun, 26 May 2013 01:49:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ppwevddb.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:McaPkGVqUV41Hadf8SQ/wdWv4ESLVYtAQy8l5Ge05RF lZsPP6NzsH4zOGy8DIP9FmKY44AwIH8zgZ2mBsuJJYbN+eQpzj mWrb03dAdFRkTylzz8gLv8RbbY91dgx3lYCkL6JSivP/dl293s HOQlNJQOnuNAbCfePEP17k3Ftl3JIN3EENhTGMV1gwxJpsfKcz rZKCY/unDGCFCxZc/NYczUN6T7lT4MMCQWdWODnm+0= X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:74570 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > I'm experiencing the following: > > - I start Emacs in X as a different user (via gksu), or > > - I start Emacs from an X session that was started with startx > > In such an Emacs, any child process seems to become a zombie after being > finished. E.g., after typing "exit" in a *terminal* running bash, there > is still a running buffer process. As a symptom, CPU is used > continuously at 100% until I C-x C-c. BTW, this is what Paul Eggert answered in emacs-dev: > I can reproduce the problem on Ubuntu 13.04. Apparently when you > start up a GTK Emacs session that can't talk to dbus (because it's > su'ed), the dbus library starts up its own service, using dbus-launch. > This messes up Emacs somehow (I don't know why). Thanks, Michael.