On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:30:15PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I often ask my window manager to bring up `xterm -e ssh somehost'. I > have the wm configured to allow me to interactively place resize the > window. Sometimes, when I do this, the xterm and ssh vanish. Process > accounting shows ssh dying with exit status 255. > > I've spoken to other users and they report that this happens to them > sometimes too. > > I suspect that the SIGWINCH arrives at a time when ssh is buggily > unable to cope with EINTR.
This would not especially surprise me. > I realise that this report isn't particularly informative. Please let > me know what additional tests/diagnostics you'd like me to do. > Unfortunately I can't reproduce the symptoms on demand; it happens to > me spontaneously about once every few weeks. Any instrumentation > you want me to do would have to be reasonable to do for all of my ssh > sessions until the bug recurs, and would have to not affect the > timings significantly. Could you redirect ssh's stderr to a file (if it isn't already going to ~/.xsession-errors or similar) and find out if it emits any error messages before exiting? The general style of OpenSSH code is such that I would expect there to be an error message to identify the failing system call. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
