Bug#697028: xinit: startx &, then (unneeded) bg freezes window manager

["Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net>]

Package: xinit
Version: 1.2.0-2
Severity: normal

After starting X using "startx &" in a shell in a text console, if back in 
that text console I happen to run "bg" on the startx job (which reports 
"... already in background"), then when I go back to the X console, the 
window manager is frozen.  (For example, it doesn't change window focus per 
mouse movement or update its pager.)  The X server is still running otherwise 
(at least enough that whatever window had focus still gets keyboard events).

(Since "bg" reported that the job is already in the background, I wouldn't
expect there to be a change in the status of the job--so I didn't expect
that the job (including the window manager or whatever) would be affected.


I also notice that if I do 'startx &' and then log off of the text console,
the window manager is also frozen.  On Sarge, that didn't happen.  What
changed?



Especially for the "bg" case, is there a bug somewhere in X components, 
especially related to shell job control?


Daniel



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xinit depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                   2.11.3-4         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  x11-common              1:7.5+8+squeeze1 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  xauth                   1:1.0.4-1        X authentication utility

Versions of packages xinit recommends:
ii  fvwm [x-window-manager] 1:2.5.30.ds-1    F(?) Virtual Window Manager
ii  vnc4server [xserver]    4.1.1+X4.3.0-37  Virtual network computing server s
ii  xserver-xorg            1:7.5+8+squeeze1 the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core [xser 2:1.7.7-14       Xorg X server - core server
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emula 261-1            X terminal emulator

xinit suggests no packages.

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