diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 297b7f42704..baf05e64ad7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1.dev1
 ----------------------------------------------
 
+- fix issue8: no logging errors at process exit
 - refinements to "collecting" output on non-ttys
 - refine internal plugin registration and --traceconfig output
 - introduce a mechanism to prevent/unregister plugins from the 
diff --git a/_pytest/capture.py b/_pytest/capture.py
index b35eef4b74a..d0fe3c9b0e3 100644
--- a/_pytest/capture.py
+++ b/_pytest/capture.py
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ def pytest_unconfigure(config):
     capman = config.pluginmanager.getplugin('capturemanager')
     while capman._method2capture:
         name, cap = capman._method2capture.popitem()
-        cap.reset()
+        # XXX logging module may wants to close it itself on process exit
+        # otherwise we could do finalization here and call "reset()".
+        cap.suspend()
 
 class NoCapture:
     def startall(self):
diff --git a/_pytest/core.py b/_pytest/core.py
index fcd7ea547ab..a8b5f90866c 100644
--- a/_pytest/core.py
+++ b/_pytest/core.py
@@ -151,15 +151,15 @@ def consider_setuptools_entrypoints(self):
         except ImportError:
             return # XXX issue a warning
         for ep in iter_entry_points('pytest11'):
-            if ep.name in self._name2plugin:
+            name = ep.name
+            if name.startswith("pytest_"):
+                name = name[7:]
+            if ep.name in self._name2plugin or name in self._name2plugin:
                 continue
             try:
                 plugin = ep.load()
             except DistributionNotFound:
                 continue
-            name = ep.name
-            if name.startswith("pytest_"):
-                name = name[7:]
             self.register(plugin, name=name)
 
     def consider_preparse(self, args):
diff --git a/testing/test_capture.py b/testing/test_capture.py
index cc79f1f94f7..0080ef8e57b 100644
--- a/testing/test_capture.py
+++ b/testing/test_capture.py
@@ -306,6 +306,26 @@ def teardown_module(function):
             # verify proper termination
             assert "closed" not in s
 
+    def test_logging_initialized_in_test(self, testdir):
+        p = testdir.makepyfile("""
+            import sys
+            def test_something():
+                # pytest does not import logging
+                assert 'logging' not in sys.modules
+                import logging
+                logging.basicConfig()
+                logging.warn("hello432")
+                assert 0
+        """)
+        result = testdir.runpytest(p, "--traceconfig",
+            "-p", "no:capturelog")
+        assert result.ret != 0
+        result.stdout.fnmatch_lines([
+            "*hello432*",
+        ])
+        assert 'operation on closed file' not in result.stderr.str()
+
+
 class TestCaptureFuncarg:
     def test_std_functional(self, testdir):
         reprec = testdir.inline_runsource("""
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index db04fc62dfb..0d7630ee57d 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -73,3 +73,4 @@ rsyncdirs=tox.ini pytest.py _pytest testing
 python_files=test_*.py *_test.py
 python_classes=Test Acceptance
 python_functions=test
+pep8ignore = E401