Craig,
Sorry I missed your post earlier, I must have breezed bright by it.
Here's the answer to your question (I hope). The output of ps -ax|grep Z
is:
[root@dedannshae root]# ps -ax|grep Z
8246 ? Z 0:00 [Xsession <defunct>]
I'm not a newbie, but I'm not an expert either. Just consider me a power
user and lightweight/junior sysadmin. Maybe you can explain why you
think this is a kernel problem?
Dave
On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 11:33, J. Craig Woods wrote:
> 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
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