Bug#291137: /usr/X11R6/bin/luit: luit sometimes doesn't restore terminal settings or hangs
Marc Lehmann wrote:
> Sometimes, luit will hang completely. Attaching strace to luit in this
> case gives the following output:
>
> Process 14230 attached - interrupt to quit
> write(2, "Couldn\'t copy terminal settings\n", 32) = 32
> exit_group(1) = ?
> Process 14230 detached
>
> and exits. It looks like there is a race condition inside luit. It is
> likely an upstream issue because similar behaviour can be demonstrated ona
> fedora 3 system.
Sounds suspiciously similar to this bug:
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1093
Does the patch from there help?
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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