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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

In this situation, `w` will sometimes report erroneous values for *IDLE*
for the process using that terminal.

Killed that `term` instance, and things were fine again.


All this reproducible happens while running the [[GDB testsuite]].

---

Have a freshly started shell blocking on such a `term` instance.

    $ ps -F hurd-long -p 1766 -T -Q
      PID TH#  UID  PPID  PGrp  Sess TH  Vmem   RSS %CPU     User   System Args
     1766        0     3     1     1  6  131M 1.14M  0.0  0:28.85  5:40.91 /hurd/term /dev/ptyp3 pty-master /dev/ttyp3
            0                                        0.0  0:05.76  1:08.48
            1                                        0.0  0:00.00  0:00.01
            2                                        0.0  0:06.40  1:11.52
            3                                        0.0  0:05.76  1:09.89
            4                                        0.0  0:05.42  1:06.74
            5                                        0.0  0:05.50  1:04.25

... and after 5:45 h:

    $ ps -F hurd-long -p 21987 -T -Q
      PID TH#  UID  PPID  PGrp  Sess TH  Vmem   RSS %CPU     User   System Args
    21987     1001   676 21987 21987  2  148M 2.03M  0.0  0:00.02  0:00.07 /bin/bash
            0                                        0.0  0:00.02  0:00.07 
            1                                        0.0  0:00.00  0:00.00 

    $ ps -F hurd-long -p 1766 -T -Q
      PID TH#  UID  PPID  PGrp  Sess TH  Vmem   RSS %CPU     User   System Args
     1766        0     3     1     1  6  131M 1.14M  0.0  0:29.04  5:42.38 /hurd/term /dev/ptyp3 pty-master /dev/ttyp3
            0                                        0.0  0:05.76  1:08.48
            1                                        0.0  0:00.00  0:00.01
            2                                        0.0  0:06.41  1:11.90
            3                                        0.0  0:05.82  1:10.28
            4                                        0.0  0:05.52  1:07.06
            5                                        0.0  0:05.52  1:04.63

    $ sudo gdb /hurd/term 1766
    [sudo] password for tschwinge: 
    GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0-debian
    Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
    This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
    There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
    and "show warranty" for details.
    This GDB was configured as "i486-gnu".
    For bug reporting instructions, please see:
    <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
    Reading symbols from /hurd/term...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/hurd/term...done.
    (no debugging symbols found)...done.
    Attaching to program `/hurd/term', pid 1766
    [New Thread 1766.1]
    [New Thread 1766.2]
    [New Thread 1766.3]
    [New Thread 1766.4]
    [New Thread 1766.5]
    [New Thread 1766.6]
    Reading symbols from /lib/libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/lib/libhurdbugaddr.so.0.3...
    [System doesn't respond anymore, but no kernel crash.]