Anthony DeRobertis wrote, On 12/31/2013 01:02 PM: > Package: kde-workspace-bin > Version: 4:4.11.3-2 > Severity: normal > > I have a hotkey to launch an xterm. This worked before the most recent > aptitude upgrade to track testing, but now when I launch an xterm that > way, clicking the kwin close button (or picking close from the kwin > menu) does nothing; the xterm sticks around. > > After searching for a while, I compared an strace of each, and it seems > that khotkeys is starting xterm with SIGHUP blocked/masked, and that's > causing the issue. > > khotkeys probably shouldn't have signals masked when starting commands. > > [Note: see also my question about this on Unix.SE > http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/107331/977 ] >
Please make sure you are not affected by this recent nVidia driver signal mask bug. It's been driving me CRAZY (breaking Akonadi/mysqlcheck, screenblank/lock recovery, etc) https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/633706/linux/recent-drivers-cause-applications-to-hang-not-start-at-all-or-compilation-failures/ https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/638521/linux/gnome-terminal-problems-ctrl-c-and-exit/ for i in /proc/[0-9]*/status; do if sb=$(grep SigBlk ${i}|sed -e 's/^SigBlk:[ \t]//' | grep -v -e '^ffff' -e 00000000000); then echo "${sb}" "$(cat ${i%/*}/cmdline)"; fi done If you see many X11/KDE spawned apps running with signal masks that look like pointer addresses, then that's likely it: e.g.: 0000000001a12000 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit] 00007fd601bb6e80 kwin-session107a69610000138635311800000285300000_1388190743_313193 00007f847f809af8 /usr/bin/plasma-desktop 00007f847f809a50 /usr/bin/akonadi_control 00007f847f809a50 akonadiserver 00007f847f809a10 /usr/bin/akonadi_contacts_resource--identifierakonadi_contacts_resource_0 00007f847f809a10 /usr/bin/akonadi_ical_resource--identifierakonadi_ical_resource_0 00007f847f809a10 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildir_resource--identifierakonadi_maildir_resource_0 00007f847f809a10 /usr/bin/akonadi_maildispatcher_agent--identifierakonadi_maildispatcher_agent 00007f88024886d0 /usr/bin/krunner 00007f3048d08e80 /usr/bin/kmix-session107a69610000136754935300000070530010_1388190742_119017 00007f7e384a86d0 /usr/bin/lancelot-session107a69610000138782471100000164860042_1388190742_87972-nameQt-subapplication --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdo...@ucar.edu - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
