SSH strangeness on 4.9

[Doug White]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Frank Knobbe wrote:

> > If they aren't zombies, do ps axl and grab the wchan.  That will show what
> > they are waiting for.
>
> The wchan is "select" and the status is "Is+". After an attempt to kill
> it, it switches to "ttywait" and SEs+, then after a second or so to
> "IEs+"
>
> Exiting the Gnome sessions doesn't help. But it seems that I was wrong
> about using exit though. I just up'ed to 4.9 again, and "exit" from that
> gnome-terminal based ssh session causes the process to disappear.
> However, just closing the Window leaves the process hanging.

Sounds like gnome isn't properly signalling the ssh process.  Have you
tried upgrading or rebuilding Gnome recently?

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