Devuan bug report logs - #209
ASCII: Default config in ~/.bash_logout crashes X server

Package: bash; Maintainer for bash is (unknown); Source for bash is src:bash.

Reported by: Michael Siegel <msi@malbolge.net>

Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 22:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Fixed in version 5.0-3

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/810660

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Package: bash
Version: 4.4-5

When running X on VT1 and another user session (CLI) on VT2, logging out
on VT2, will either

  * crash the X server running on VT1, leaving you with a functional CLI
or
  * leave you with a blank screen and an apparently frozen-up system
    once you switch back to VT1

Running X with setuid root does not make any difference here. But if the
user on VT2 is root, X on VT1 will not crash when logging out on VT2.

In a discussion on Debian's IRC channel, I've been informed that this
problem is caused by the default configuration in ~/.bash_logout, which
looks like this:

  # ~/.bash_logout: executed by bash(1) when login shell exits.

  # when leaving the console clear the screen to increase privacy

  if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then
      [ -x /usr/bin/clear_console ] && /usr/bin/clear_console -q
  fi

Commenting out the if statement (or just deleting the file) will cure
the problem.

The culprit here is clear_console. Running /usr/bin/clear_console from
VT2 in the scenario described above will result in the same problems you
get when logging out.

fsmithred has also found that this problem does not occur on D-Bus-free
installations (with the above config in place).


msi

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Devuan bug report logs - #209 ASCII: Default config in ~/.bash_logout crashes X server

Devuan bug report logs - #209
ASCII: Default config in ~/.bash_logout crashes X server