Bug 417971

Summary:	Bash sometimes locks up for unknown reasons
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ingemar Nilsson <init>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Roman Rakus <rrakus>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	7	CC:	kernel-maint, mlichvar, triage, tsmetana, twaugh
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OS:	Linux
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Description Ingemar Nilsson 2007-12-10 12:23:11 UTC

Description of problem:

Sometimes when I bring up a new xterm (I use standard xterm, didn't try with the
other ones), bash locks up during the execution of the first command. This is a
hard lockup, and I cannot even close the window. Only the kill command will do.

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

bash-3.2-9.fc7

How reproducible:

Often

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start the computer and login
2. Open an Xterm
3. Run e.g. ls
  
Actual results:

Only half the output appears, and now the window appears to be locked. CTRL-C
and CTRL-Z both fail to work. Closing the window by clicking the X button does
not work.

Expected results:

The entire output and a responsive prompt.

Additional info:

I only have this problem on my x86-64 desktop. I also run an i386 laptop with F7
and this problem has *never* occurred there.

Investigating this problem, I find that the ls process that I started in the
frozen window does not exist anymore. The xterm and the bash processes both
exist, but xterm responds (with poll() and read() calls) to mouse movement over
the window and thus does not seem to be frozen.

The bash process seems to be infinitely waiting on tcsetattr(), which in turn
seems to be infinitely waiting on ioctl(). These two conclusions were reached
after using ltrace and strace on the bash process. Output follows:

$ ltrace -p 3577
__errno_location()                               = 0x2aaaaaac5ee8
tcsetattr(0, 1, 0x7fffe4f5d5e0 <unfinished ...>
$ strace -p 3577
Process 3577 attached - interrupt to quit
ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP or TCSETSW <unfinished ...>
Process 3577 detached

Comment 1 Ingemar Nilsson 2007-12-10 12:29:25 UTC

Actually just killing bash did not suffice. I had to kill the xterm manually.
Even when I had killed bash, the xterm still responded to mouse movement with
new read() and poll() calls. This is strange, but then I'm not really familiar
with the inner workings of the terminal.

Comment 2 Tomas Janousek 2008-01-21 15:12:43 UTC

There's probably something strange with pseudoterminal handling in xterm/kernel.
I wasn't able to reproduce it, but I did it on F-8 or something similar. I'll Cc
xterm and kernel maintainers to look at this since I doubt this is a bash issue.

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2008-01-21 15:30:49 UTC

Any chance you are using Xinerama? If yes, it's likely a duplicate of bug #205982.

Comment 4 Ingemar Nilsson 2008-01-29 11:59:46 UTC

I'm using Xinerama.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 02:55:07 UTC

Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
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