Bug 55273

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.12 i686)

Description of problem:
When I run mc as ordinary user on the console, mc always hangs
either at once or after running some command - i.e. I type ls
and presto! it hangs. This doesn't happen if I run it as root
or from gnome-terminal.
strace reveals it hangs on reading fd 7 (this is after doing `ls'):
[...]
read(4, "-rw-r--r--    1 dominik  users  "..., 100) = 83
write(1, "-rw-r--r--    1 dominik  users  "..., 83) = 83
select(1024, [0 4 8], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4])
read(4, "\33[m", 100)                   = 3
write(1, "\33[m", 3)                    = 3
select(1024, [0 4 8], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [8])
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
wait4(4005, [WIFSTOPPED(s) && WSTOPSIG(s) == SIGSTOP], WNOHANG|WUNTRACED,
NULL) = 4005
wait4(4033, 0xbffff3c4, WNOHANG|WUNTRACED, NULL) = 0
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
read(8, "/home/dominik\n", 4096)        = 14
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
kill(4005, SIGCONT)                     = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
kill(4033, SIGCONT)                     = 0
write(6, "3", 1)                        = 1
read(7, 0x80c2630, 1)                   = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted)
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
wait4(4005, 0xbffff49c, WNOHANG|WUNTRACED, NULL) = 0
wait4(4033, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], WNOHANG|WUNTRACED, NULL)
= 4033
kill(4033, SIGCONT)                     = -1 ESRCH (No such process)
close(6)                                = 0
close(7)                                = 0
pipe([5, 6])                            = 0
pipe([7, 10])                           = 0
fork()                                  = 4038
close(5)                                = 0
close(10)                               = 0
read(7, "\2", 1)                        = 1
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
read(7, 
and then it just sits here.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in on a standard virtual console as ordinary user
2. run mc
3a. sometimes it hangs here
3b. if not, type any external command, for example `ls'
4. it hangs

	

Actual Results:  mc hangs

Expected Results:  it shouldn't hang, now should it?

Additional info:

All errata applied.
mc-4.5.51-36
kernel-2.4.9-7 and my home-made 2.4.12 - same results