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Bug 114644 - gnome-system-monitor 2.0.5 freezes when killing root process
gnome-system-monitor 2.0.5 freezes when killing root process
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113471
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-07 16:41 UTC by Alastair Tse
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
shot of the console and UI freeze. (130.79 KB, image/png)
2003-06-07 16:44 UTC, Alastair Tse 		Details

Description Alastair Tse 2003-06-07 16:41:56 UTC 
trying to kill a root owned process as a user after it prompts for the root
password causes the UI to freeze. this is using gnome-system-monitor 2.0.5.

to reproduce:

1. select a root process
2. click on the "end process" button
3. password dialog pops up prompting for root password
4. enter root password
5. the UI freezes, and on the console there is a "Password:" prompt, which
is not interactive. (eg, if you type something, it is not redirected to
whatever is prompting for the password.)

seems like gnome-system-monitor starts blocking awaiting output from the
command to kill the process, whereas the command to kill the process is
waiting for a password to be sent.

attached is a screenshot of what happens. please let me know if you need
any further information.
Comment 1 Alastair Tse 2003-06-07 16:44:01 UTC 
Created attachment 17277 [details]
shot of the console and UI freeze.
Comment 2 Alastair Tse 2003-06-07 16:58:19 UTC 
in addition to this, we also have a bug report on gentoo bugzilla with
something similar.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17880
Comment 3 Kevin Vandersloot 2003-10-21 23:30:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113471 ***