Bug 85117 – syslog gets polluted with "SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()"

Bug 85117 - syslog gets polluted with "SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()"

Summary:	syslog gets polluted with "SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()"

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	utempter (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	phoebe
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends On:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2003-02-25 16:42 EST by Peter van Egdom
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2003-02-25 17:31:42 EST
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description Peter van Egdom 2003-02-25 16:42:57 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030206

Description of problem:
Since Phoebe 3 (Phoebe 8.0.94), the kernel introduces a mention of an
application bug, triggered by programs like "xterm" and parts of Anaconda :

 "application bug: xterm(7260) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls
  wait().
  (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated."



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


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start "xterm"
2. Type something inside xterm.
3. "dmesg"
    

Actual Results:   

"application bug: xterm(7260) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls
 wait().
 (see the NOTES section of 'man 2 wait'). Workaround activated."


Expected Results:  No application bug.

Additional info:

kernel-2.4.20-2.48
glibc-2.3.1-46
Phoebe 8.0.94

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-02-25 16:48:52 EST

that's the app being buggy... not the kernel.
but please make sure you've updated phoebe to other parts too, eg utemper etc

Comment 2 Peter van Egdom 2003-02-25 17:31:42 EST

Hmm.. okay, updated to "utempter-0.5.2-16" fixes described problem.
Reassigning component from 'kernel' to 'utempter' and closing bug.
Thanks!

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.