[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!tag open_issue_hurd]] There must be some blocking / dead-locking (?) problem in `term`. [[!toc]] # Original Findings # 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 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: ... 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.] --- The very same behavior is still observable as of 2011-03-24. Next: rebooted; on console started root shell, screen, a few spare windows; as user started GDB test suite, noticed the PTY it's using; in a root shell started GDB (the system one, for `.debug` stuff) on `/hurd/term`, `set noninvasive on`, attach to the *term* that GDB is using. # Formal Verification This issue may be a simple programming error, or it may be more complicated. Methods of [[formal_verification]] should be applied to confirm that there is no error in `/hurd/term`'s logic itself. There are tools for formal verification/[[code_analysis]] that can likely help here. There is a [[!FF_project 277]][[!tag bounty]] on this task.