Bug 131214

Summary:	Cannot spawn any more xterms
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	George Toft <george>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3	CC:	wtogami
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Description George Toft 2004-08-30 03:36:52 UTC

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Description of problem:
See bug 128154

Similarity is that I have several xterms open.  I followed advice in 
above bug, including killing off process holding pty/0.  I have not 
upgraded the kernel as this is the FC3T1 distro.

Main difference is that killing off the process that is holding pty/0 
allows me to spawn only 1 more xterm - no net gain.

Other differences - the time before this condition appears ranges 
from an hour to a week, not the 24 hours or so mentioned in the above 
bug.  As this system is being tuned and adjusted, it gets rebooted, 
so it has not been up more than a week - actual time to failure may 
be longer.

Reboot circumvents the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.7-1.478

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Spawn an xterm
2.  When conditions are right, CPU load climbs, then drops off.  No 
xterm appears.

    

Actual Results:  No xterm appears

Expected Results:  xterm should appear

Additional info:

Comment 1 Warren Togami 2004-08-30 05:01:21 UTC

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of 128154, which seems to be fixed
with the latest rawhide kernels.  If you don't want to upgrade to
rawhide, see if it works properly in FC3 test2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128154 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:05:21 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.