gnome-terminal doesn't kill processes when closing a tab

[Alex Salt]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

OS Version: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
gnome-terminal version: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2

So, when I close a tab which has something running in it (man, ssh, less, nano) the process is not killed, bash process also stays alive.
The most fastest way to reproduce a bug: open some number of tabs and then close them. Run" ps aux | grep bash" - and you have lots of bashes running.

[Jerzy Mansarliński (jmansar)]

Thank you for your bug report. I can confirm this bug. This bug has already been reported in gnome bugtracker.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the work here.

[gazel (joel-gazel)]

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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-terminal
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> OS Version: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
> gnome-terminal version: 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
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> So, when I close a tab which has something running in it (man, ssh, less, nano) the process is not killed, bash process also stays alive.
> The most fastest way to reproduce a bug: open some number of tabs and then close them. Run" ps aux | grep bash" - and you have lots of bashes running.
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[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Try to reproduce it with tvtime. This bug isn't fixed.

[Alex Salt (holy.cheater)]

Can you be more specific?
I've just tested this in intrepid (gnome-terminal version: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1): bug in the description is fixed.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

1. Open gnome-terminal
2. Execute command: tvtime
3. Close gnome-terminal's window by [x]
4. Tvtime's window will be shutdown, but sound from TV is alive
5. $ ps aux | grep tvtime : results 0

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

In Hardy it's not repaired. I noticed it today when I wanted to see how much memory gnome-terminal uses and I opened a lot of tabs and closed them soon; not even one bash process has been terminated.

It seems I have to restart gnome-terminal from time to time...

[Alex Salt (holy.cheater)]

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Michał Gołębiowski wrote:
> In Hardy it's not repaired. I noticed it today when I wanted to see how
> much memory gnome-terminal uses and I opened a lot of tabs and closed
> them soon; not even one bash process has been terminated.
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> It seems I have to restart gnome-terminal from time to time...

Gnome-terminal leaks memory through time. It has nothing to do with the
tab processes bug.
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[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

I don't understand - it behaves exactly as described in this bug, so how could it be not connected?

If I enter exit, bash process exits - if I close a tab manually, by mouse - it's still there until I close gnome-terminal completely. If I leave opened vim in one tab and I close the tab manually - it does not terminate until the exit of the whole gt.

Is it not just what this bug is about?

[Alex Salt (holy.cheater)]

Sorry, my bad. Misunderstood you a bit.
Well, the hardy's gnome-terminal is the same version as it was when the bug was reported. Obviously, it is not fixed.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

I just thought that as Hardy is still supported (and will be till 2011 - it's an LTS release) a patch should be applied. Or am I wrong as it's not a security bug?

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - the Jaunty Jackalope. It won't be fixed in previous versions of Ubuntu because the package doesn't fit the requirements for backporting. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for more information.