The Saturday 02 February 2013 01:36:32, Bob Proulx wrote : > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote : > > > 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. > > > > 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??? > > Zombie processes have whatever name they always have had. Being a > zombie does not change their name. > > But it is the name of the parent that is import. Or rather it is the > process id of the parent that is important. Find the parent process > and kill it. > > ps -efH | less > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > rwp 29470 29468 0 Jan28 pts/30 00:00:00 bash > rwp 29579 29470 0 Jan28 pts/30 00:01:00 foo > rwp 29472 29579 0 Jan28 pts/30 00:01:00 [<defunct>] > > Process 29472 is a zombie. It is process 29579 that is the bad > parent. Kill 29579 (in this example) and the zombie will be reaped. > Note I just made that example up from memory and it probably differs > from what you are actually seeing and is for illustration only. > > Here is longer explanation that might help: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part3/section-13.html > > Bob
I got two times the same defunct: kcmshell4,w guehich I guess are my 2 zombies. Does not help much for my 3 intances of vlc. Any way, its 2 AM and I am going to bed. Thank you and tomorrow will be a new day... 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/201302020208.16697.tchate...@free.fr
