On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:34 +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 10:43:07PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > > The following command: > > > $ xfterm4 -fg red3 -bg honeydew2 -e /bin/su - > > > rises the CPU utilization permanently to something like: > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 1935 jtocanci 25 0 111m 15m 9708 R 51.3 1.5 0:19.78 gnome-terminal > > > The command should show a Password prompt, but it doesn't. It just > > hangs eating CPU. > > > In my case xfterm4 runs gnome-terminal: > > I can't reproduce this with xfce4-terminal though it doesn't run the su > inside xfce4-terminal if I do do that.
I can't reproduce this either. I get the exact same result, a gnome-terminal without the su command. What happens if you run the command with gnome-terminal.wrapper instead of xfterm4? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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