Bug#480635: glxgears: closing launch terminal hangs X, powerdown required

[Daniel Dickinson <cshore@wightman.ca>]

Package: mesa-utils
Version: 7.0.3-1
Severity: important


Launching glxgears from a terminal session then closing the terminal results in X freezing and refusing to respond to input, in fact making it impossible to even switch to a virtual terminal.  This is likely the reason certain xscreensaver hacks (gflux and polytopes) hang X when run from xscreensaver-demo (I previously filed a report on that).

This probably affects other packages, and it hangs X, which is why I have given important rather than normal.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing'), (1, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mesa-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.3-1    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library

mesa-utils recommends no packages.

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