[CentOS] ssh -X not shutting down

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 30 13:56:08 UTC 2009


On Thursday 30 July 2009 14:54:04 Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:42, Anne Wilson<cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
wrote:
> > Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the
> > gui I use 'ssh -X'.  Until recently there was no problem.  Exiting simply
> > dropped me back to my local konsole.  Lately, though, the shutdown seems
> > to hang, and I have to close the session.  Any thoughts?
>
> This usually happens when you have a background process connected to
> the tty used by your SSH session.
>
> This usually happens when you restart a daemon ("service xxx restart"
> or "/etc/init.d/xxx restart") and the script or the program does not
> detach itself from the tty, which it should do if it is a proper
> daemon.
>
> You can use "ps -f" (before you close the session) to see which
> processes are attached to your tty, after that, if you log out the
> session and it hangs, you can look into those programs that were
> running on your tty and see if they are causing that.
>
> See also: http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10
>
> If you want to force disconnection of the SSH session without having
> to close the terminal or window, you can type <Return> then ~. (tilde
> followed by dot), this will terminate the SSH client process.
>
Very helpful, thanks

Anne
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