[second attempt. it seems that the first one failed. in case I'm wrong,
please forgive me]
hi,
this is a strange problem: we have dual PIII with RH7.2 on it (as only OS).
Today, while X was logging out from KDE session, I tried to swich to text
console (by Ctr-Alt-F1), and X just hanged. The rest of the system worked
fine. This problem has occured several times in the past, and the solution
was to restart the X by killing it. So I looked for X (top -bn1 | less) and
found 2 processes. One process was pretty regular, and the other was:
9351 root 9 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 X <defunct>
(I've never seen <defunct> note.
I killed the "usual" X - didn't help, tried to kill 9351 by
kill -s 9 9351
- no reaction. It's like 9351 has choosen to ignore the superuser !!!( ;-)
)
google search for X<defunct> did not gave something usefull (I just know that
some guy had such a problem. Tried to mail him - apparently there is no such
address).
My questions are: how is it possible that a process doues not respond to kill
-s 9, is it possible to kill such a process anyway, what should I do in the
future when this problem comes back, what will be the numbers in lotto in the
next week and when will we sign pease with Syria
Thanks in advance,
Boris
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