Re: gdm and gnome-terminal

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Hans-Detlev Fink <hdf@pecos.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I just recently subscribed to this list, so my question may be obsolete.
> 
> I've installed gnome-1.0 from self-compiled srpms/tars. All works
> fine so far, glitches have become really rare recently.
> 
> Still one thing that's quite annoying to me: When starting gnome
> via gdm gnome-terminal and Eterm do not close when exiting the
> shell running in them. Example: I have bash running inside a 
> gnome-terminal and close the session via Ctrl-D or 'exit'. The shell
> terminates, the terminal's window is empty but does not close. The
> same with Eterm, but NOT with xterm and color-xterm. These two
> behave normal. It looks like someone catches the event from the
> terminating shell before the window manager (enlightenment in this
> case) has a chance to receive it.
> 
> Without gdm (starting gnome via startx) everything is ok.
> 
> Anybody found the same? Or even a solution?

The problem here is that GDM is leaving a dirty sigprocmask
with SIGCHILD blocked. It shouldn't be fix this so that GDM
clears this before exec'ing children - though I'm not
sure GDM's use of sigprocmask() is really legitimate in
the first place.

Regards,
                                        Owen