The Saturday 02 February 2013 00:53:48, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Ok I got the pid of each instance of vlc. but kill +instance number does > > not kill anything, no moe than pkill vlc!!! > > If the process won't die then likely it is a zombie. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process > > Zombies cannot be killed because they are already dead. The most > common reason they haven't left yet is because their parent process > hasn't executed wait(2) upon them to receive their exit status. In > which case the problem is a bad parent. > > Find the parent process id and kill the parent. In the case of zombie > processes it is the bad parent that is really the problem. > > Bob
True, zombie cant be be kill as they alredy dead by definition! Well, top gives me 2 zombies. So I should be able to kill at least 1 vlc instance. But is there any way to get the name of zombies?... Well, strange thing no??? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201302020101.22052.tchate...@free.fr
