[indiana-discuss] zombie process in b93

[Alan Coopersmith]

I don't think your xorg.conf matters - since the parent is metacity,
the GNOME window manager, I've cc'ed desktop-discuss in hopes one of
the GNOME engineers can investigate further.

	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Thanks Alan I didn't know about preap and ptree...
> 
> Here is the output of ptree, hope you can figure out why this is being created and if its reproducible on other machines. If you need my xorg.conf let me know.
> 
> ~# ptree 605
> 519   /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
>   520   /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
>     557   /usr/bin/ctrun -l child -i none /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession /usr/bin/dtstart jds
>       566   /usr/bin/gnome-session
>         602   /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default0
>           605   <defunct>
> 
> 
> --amit
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
>> You can't kill a zombie, you have to preap it - but
>> first you should ptree it
>> to find out which parent process is letting their children
>> become zombies.
> 
> 
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