On Mon, 08 Okt 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: Hello Small,:)
> > > 16310 pts/2 S 0:00 \_ run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily/ > > > 16388 pts/2 Z 0:00 \_ [man-db <defunct>] > > > > > > Every time different script, and if I run every script manually it is > > > completed in a moment without problems! > > I have no idea what the problem is. > > Maybe its a good idea to report this bug to the "debianutils" > > package where run-parts belong to. > > No, that's wrong because run-parts is working fine, but mandb is the > program which is hanging around in defunctional status. So this bug > should be reported against mandb. But please look before into the > cronjob in /etc/cron.daily that is calling mandb and try running the > exact command manual to see if it works or if that one hangs too. :) No. The initial mail show many hanging jobs from cron.daily and not always man.db. I tried all the cron.daily scripts many times by hand and this never happened. Sergey wrote now the same problems (http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2001/debian-isp-200110/msg00078.html) and I think this could be a run-parts problem. part of ps(1): ... Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits. ... The parent proccess is run-parts if I understand everything correct. Here 2 other examples from the last 2 days: root 6697 0.0 0.0 1800 4 ? S Oct06 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON root 6702 0.0 0.0 2172 4 ? S Oct06 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 6704 0.0 0.0 1276 4 ? S Oct06 0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 9292 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct06 0:00 [logrotate <defunct>] root 32644 0.0 0.0 1800 444 ? S Oct07 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON root 32649 0.0 0.0 2172 1008 ? S Oct07 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 32652 0.0 0.0 1276 80 ? S Oct07 0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 2220 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct07 0:00 [apache-ssl <defunct>] -- Nočl Köthe
