initscripts-7.93.20.EL-1 When a bash shell script starts another shell script, you can end up with a load of unicode_start processes. - bash program starts - calls unicode_start, which is a bash script - calls unicode_start, which is a bash script etc. I could not reproduce the problem locally, but the patch attached fixes it for the person seeing the problem.
Created attachment 122714 [details] bash-no-unicode-start-for-child-bash.patch
It happens because someone has BASH_ENV set in their .bash_profile - don't do that. (See #172059). This problem is resolved in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide a resolution for this in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for currently deployed systems. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating changes for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects.
Note that this fix breaks unicode initialization for vt2-vt6. It has been reverted.
Adding devel NAK; as the fix was incorrect and caused regressions.