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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
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+
+[[!tag open_issue_hurd]]
+
+There must be some blocking / dead-locking (?) problem in `term`:
+
+    # w | grep [t]sch
+    tschwing  p1 192.168.10.60: Tue 8PM  0:03  2172 /bin/bash
+    tschwing  p2 192.168.10.60: Tue 4PM 40hrs   689 emacs
+    tschwing  p3 192.168.10.60:  8:52PM 11:37 15307 /bin/bash
+    tschwing  p0 192.168.10.60:  6:42PM 11:47  8104 /bin/bash
+    tschwing  p8 192.168.10.60:  8:27AM  0:02 16510 /bin/bash
+
+Now open a new screen window, or login shell, or...
+
+    # ps -Af | tail
+    [...]
+    tschwinge 16538  676  p6  0:00.08 /bin/bash
+        root 16554   128  co  0:00.09 ps -Af
+        root 16555   128  co  0:00.01 tail
+
+`bash` is started (on `p6`), but newer makes it to the shell promt; doesn't
+even start to execute `.bash_profile` / `.bashrc`.  The next shell started, on
+the next available pseudoterminal, will work without problems.
+
+The `term` on `p6` has already been running before:
+
+    # ps -Af | grep [t]typ6
+        root  6871     3   -  5:45.86 /hurd/term /dev/ptyp6 pty-master /dev/ttyp6
+
+Killed it, and things were fine again.