Bug#762785: htop: No more shows any processes if once a user starting with an underscore ("_") was selected
Package: htop
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
with the new "_apt" user in apt 1.1~exp3 (in Debian Experimental), I
wanted to see what it does and started "htop -u _apt".
I didn't see a single process.
Then I tried it interactively:
* Started "apt-get update" in one root shell
* Started "htop" in another one, pressed "u", saw the "_apt" user there,
selected it
Again I saw no processes listed.
The I pressed "u" again, selected "All Users" and still -- no processes
shown at all.
Then I started "htop -u _apt" again, pressed "u", selected "All Users"
and still: No processes shown at all.
I tried the latter as root as well as normal user, inside a screen
session (as root) as well as outside a screen session (as normal user).
I also noticed that when selecting "All users" in the above cases, the
terminal bell rings (^G).
Conclusion: As soon as the view is reduced to all processes of a user
which starts with an underscore, something is broken in htop.
P.S.: ps auxw | fgrep _apt indeed showed a bunch of processes, so it's
definitely htop, not apt.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental'), (109, 'buildd-unstable'), (109, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages htop depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-11
ii libncursesw5 5.9+20140913-1
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1
htop recommends no packages.
Versions of packages htop suggests:
ii ltrace 0.7.3-4
ii strace 4.9-2
-- no debconf information
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