Package: gnome-session-bin Severity: normal Hi,
/usr/bin/gnome-session doesn't signal autostart jobs when the session
ends. Create for example an autostart job like this one:
$ cat > ~/.config/autostart/sleep.desktop <<EOF
> [Desktop Entry]
> Type=Application
> Name=Sleep
> Exec=sleep 3600
> EOF
After logout/login you can see that gnome-session has started the
previously created job and is registered as its parent process:
$ ps -C sleep -C x-session-manager -f
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
1000 27714 27681 0 17:55 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manager
1000 27797 27714 0 17:55 ? 00:00:00 sleep 3600
However after logging out/logging in again the situation is like this:
$ ps -C sleep -C x-session-manager -f
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
1000 27797 1 0 17:55 ? 00:00:00 sleep 3600
1000 28030 27997 1 17:58 ? 00:00:00 x-session-manager
1000 28111 28030 0 17:58 ? 00:00:00 sleep 3600
So instead of signaling (SIGHUP or SIGTERM) its children when the
session ends, gnome-session simply orphans them, leaving useless
processes around. Additionally it doesn't recognize that this particular
autostart job is already running when a new session is created, but just
creates a new one.
I think that gnome-session should at least SIGHUP its child processes
when the session ends.
Best regards
Alexander Kurtz
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