DAVE, It is a bit difficult to help you without the info we need. In my earlier post to your problem, I asked you for some info about this zombie process. You now say it is an "old X process". What the hell is that? The X Server runs with more that one process. A "kill -9 <process number>" will not kill a child process that no longer has the process running that spawned the child (PPID). By knowing some judicious uses of the "ps" command with different switches, you can glean all the info you need to know. A "regular" zombie would not appear after you have done a hard reboot. You are dealing with a kernel problem...
Craig Woods, UNIX SA At 09:14 AM 12/8/2001 -0600, you wrote: >No, it's an old X process. I think it dates back a few weeks, when X >unexpectedly hung, and I was forced to hard-reboot (this is a laptop, so >it was not a big deal). > >Someone suggested I try a "sighup", but no such command exists on my >system. Maybe I misunderstood? I did try kill -9, which I thought was >supposed to take out pretty much anything, but not in this case... > >Dave
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