What terminal emulator are you using? Also what happens if you start a screen session in VT and detach and reattach once in X. It sounds like a variable is wonky somewhere... Dave ------------- root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cranky@xxxxxxxxxxxx On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun <ciprian.craciun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:33 PM, David Houston <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I Wonder weather it is your screen augments. Try using just -r rather than -RR >> >> Dave >> ------------- >> root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> cranky@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun >> <ciprian.craciun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun >>>> <ciprian.craciun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Hello all! >>>>> >>>>> I'm having the following issue: after opening and closing some >>>>> shells within the same screen session, I'm left with a bunch of >>>>> defunct bash processes, that screen doesn't seem to wait for... Is >>>>> there any issue with screen? >>>>> >>>>> Or is there any issue in general, as Firefox plugin FireGPG seems >>>>> to do the same with gpg. (Which it didn't on Debian.) >>>> >>>> I've never noticed this myself. Are you sure you're actually exiting >>>> screen and not just detaching? >>> >>> Bellow is the output of `ps axf`. The problem is that screen >>> does't collect properly the defunct bash processes. >>> >>> 17030 ? S 0:00 urxvt -title x-shell -e >>> /home/ciprian/.bin/x-console -- screen -RR >>> 17032 pts/1 Ss+ 0:00 \_ screen -RR >>> 17036 ? Ss 0:00 \_ SCREEN -RR >>> 17037 pts/2 Rs 0:00 \_ /bin/bash >>> 17137 pts/2 R+ 0:00 | \_ ps axf >>> 17044 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17046 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17048 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17050 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17051 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17054 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17055 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17057 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> >>> 17060 ? Zs 0:00 \_ [bash] <defunct> > > > I've tried with only -r but it doesn't work as I have no open > screen session. > > But I've tried it with no argument at all (just `screen`), and it > still has the defunct processes. > > Strange enough, it seems that only when using screen under X, it > behaves like this... (Directly in a VT works ok.) > > Ciprian. >
