Ahh geeezzz. I've had this effect for (literally) a year. Just recently
(since I upgraded my libc, I think), they became far less frequent.
Apparently there are a few situations where a program controlling a
psuedo-tty (that also manages utmp) dies and never closes out the
tty. xterm seems to be the worst culprit. I can easily force this
effect by opening an xterm on my Win95 box (using X-Win32) and then
killing it by clicking the X icon on the window.
Unfortunately the effect happens elsewhere and sometimes even if I
type "logout" in my xterm (though rarely).
The long and short of it? I gave up on trying to fix it months ago;
after I got the newest versions of everything related I could think of
and recompiling them (X11, procps, kernel, libc, xterm, etc ...) had
absolutely no effect.
> >
> > cheers..
> > gokhan unel
> >
> > info: compaq488 + slackware3.0(elf) + __ALL__ updates mentioned in
> > "changes" file.
> >
>
>
>
Shin!
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