Bug#601344: Screen blinks when closing a xterm window after "sudo -i"
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:44:06 +0200 Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
said:
eh oh eh? wha? eh? why me?
> Package: xterm
> Version: 264-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: upstream
>
> Hi,
>
> when I close a xterm window (from the window manager) after I ran
> "sudo -i" in it, the screen blinks, this does not happen if I become
> superuser using "sudo -s" or "su".
>
> I don't think this is DE related, as I get this with Gnome and XFCE;
> and I get this behavior also with other terminal emulators like
> gnome-terminal and aterm, so maybe this not xterm specific either,
> forgive me if I am abusing the xterm bugs for this.
>
> Does it have anything to do with the xserver authorization model and
> sudo itself? Any idea about where should I report it?
>
> It is not a great problem from the user POV but I am curios about what
> is triggering this behavior, and whether it is reproducible by other
> people as well or it may depend on something in my environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Antonio Ospite
> http://ao2.it
>
> P.S. I am X-Debbugs-CCing xorg@lists.freedesktop.org and sudo-users@sudo.ws
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-rc8-ao2 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages xterm depends on:
> ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared
> lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration
> library ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client
> Exchange library ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-4 shared
> libraries for terminal hand ii libutempter0 1.1.5-3 A
> privileged helper for utmp/wtmp ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3
> X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11
> Athena Widget library ii libxft2 2.1.14-2
> FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxmu6
> 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii
> libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii
> xbitmaps 1.1.0-1 Base X bitmaps
>
> Versions of packages xterm recommends:
> ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities
>
> Versions of packages xterm suggests:
> pn xfonts-cyrillic <none> (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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