On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Without data, we can only speculate. Here's my wild speculation: > > > > You thought you had multiple terminals open, but what you had > > was a single master process with multiple sub-processes. A > > I did have multiple terminals open. > > It only happened once, at least in what I can recall. > > > failure of some kind happened in the master process and when it > > died, it took all the children with it.
So I ran an experiment. I ran gnome-terminal. That opened a window. Then I went to File->Open Terminal several times. Now there are several windows open. Guess how many gnome-terminal processes there are? 1. And when I killed that one process, all the gnome-terminal windows disappeared. -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130411150418.gh27...@randomstring.org