Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1008
control-panel is a runaway process after root logout.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:49 EDT
If control-panel is not closed before logging out as root, then subsequent user logins will experience 100% of their CPU time being consumed by this runaway process until it is killed by root.
gtk bug. fixed in the later development gtk releases.
*** Bug 853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Running on a pentium 83 system (16 MB ram) with runlevel 5 as default. Logging on as Root from XDM starts the control panel automatically. However, when one logs off, the control panel process does _not_ end, and it becomes a runaway process. This is a fairly significant bug since even one of these runaway processes slows down the system.. In cases where three or four of these control-panel runaway processes are running in the background, the computer can be slowed down VERY badly. The workaround is to kill the process manually before logging out as root. Alternatively, a superuser can kill all the processes later, providing that he/she knows about this problem. ------- Additional Comments From dkl@redhat.com 01/18/99 15:39 ------- I have been able to replicate this in the test lab. A runaway control panel is left for every login. SO if the root user were to login several times without closing the control-panel properly, then there is a control-panel process for each login. This has been assigned to a developer for further review. ------- Additional Comments From ayn2@cornell.edu 02/02/99 01:22 ------- This is a duplicate of #1008 (which is reported fixed by the new gtk) ------- Email Received From michael james obrien <mobrien@unm.edu> 02/16/99 17:17 -------