Package: xfce4-genmon-plugin Version: 3.4.0-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I have noticed after misconfiguring a genmon plugin that if the started application tries to read from /dev/tty (for instance, svn asking a password), not only genmon freezes, but the whole session may block as well. I have reproduced the problem with those steps: 1) Create a new user 2) Log in as this user, run startxfce4, use the default panel parameters 3) Create a shell script which does nothing (I used #!/bin/sh \n exit 0) 4) Add a generic monitor to the panel, configure it so it starts the shell script 5) Log out 6) Add "cat /dev/tty" to the shell script 7) Run startxfce4 again On my system, the background and the Xfce panels start to appear, but then everything freezes (the mouse still moves and Ctrl-Alt-Fx still works, tough) I think that in my case it also caused lightdm to abort the session start (i.e. after entering the username/password and clicking Login, the screen goes blank for some seconds and the prompt reappears), but I haven’t tried to reproduce it with my testcase so it may be an unrelated problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfce4-genmon-plugin depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 2.8.0-2 ii libc6 2.17-92+b1 ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.10.2-2 ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1.1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.28.2-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.20-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.32.5-5+b1 ii libxfce4ui-1-0 4.10.0-3 ii libxfce4util6 4.10.1-1 ii xfce4-panel 4.10.1-1 xfce4-genmon-plugin recommends no packages. xfce4-genmon-plugin suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org