On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 23:17, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> I was able to reproduce this bug while hacking at the new cdrom
> auto-detection functions. It is simple: use bf2.4 flavor and try to
> install kernel&modules twice. Then you can see a [loop0] _Zombie_
> process, which apparently locks the file which has been mounted
> previously. This is a kernel process. So how can it became a Zombie?
Looks like a kernel bug.
Kernel threads can become zombies in exactly the same way as any other
process, ie if they die and their parent doesn't call wait. As a
temporary hack, try something like this:
p.
Index: losetup.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/losetup.c,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 losetup.c
--- losetup.c 2001/10/22 01:14:54 1.7
+++ losetup.c 2002/03/04 10:19:10
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
device);
return( FALSE);
}
+ /* reap any zombies that were created */
+ waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG);
close(fd);
return( TRUE);
}
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