[Gllug] Why does this happen

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:47:28PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 22:23 +0100, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 10:18:05PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > Four years of Linux usage finally snapped:
> > > 
> > > launch terminal -- shh to some box --- muck about --- type 'exit' ---
> > > don't get back a prompt on the local box
> > 
> > does "muck about" include launching a process on the target box
> > that continues to run in the background and therefore keeps your
> > ssh connection up?
> > 
> > just a possibility...
> 
> 
> Well, this is the most recent example - cannot remember whether i closed
> this down or it crashed...
> 
> [adrian at mayday ~]$ ssh -X adrian at noisybox
> adrian at noisybox's password:
> Last login: Mon Aug  8 12:47:56 2005 from mayday
> [adrian at noisybox ~]$ kwifimanager
> Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-adrian"
> Link points to "/tmp/kde-adrian"
> kbuildsycoca running...
> Launched ok, pid = 9530
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x38001b8
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  20
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x38001b8
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  18
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x38001b8
> [adrian at noisybox ~]$ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode:  7
>   Minor opcode:  0
>   Resource id:  0x3800019
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 9527, errno = 0
> 
> [adrian at noisybox ~]$ exit
> logout

Type ~. to force SSH to disconnect.
"man ssh" for more details.

As for why - KDE programs tend to launch a bunch of other programs 
into the background, usually started by kdeinit.


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