Version: 2.1 KDE 4.0.85 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080703 (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] OS: Linux Less is watching the opened file with Shift-down arrow. Another problem that might be relevant is that attempting to close a root session makes konsole freeze for about a minute and the session remains.
SVN commit 832426 by knight: If a terminal process does not respond to SIGHUP (because it is running as root for example), close the pty instead and wait for the process to exit. CCBUG:165994 BACKPORT-4.0 M +16 -1 Session.cpp M +4 -2 Session.h WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=832426
The "less" problem is fixed here, the problem with closing a root session remains. Should I file a new bug report for this?
The more general problem with root sessions has been reported here http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143880 . I'll close this one as fixed for now.