Boris Gorelik (by way of b g ) wrote:
>[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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From the man page of PS:
Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called
"zombies") that remain because their parent has not
destroyed them properly. These processes will be destroyed
by init(8) if the parent process exits.
So, you will only get rid of this process by rebooting. On the other hand,
these process get no CPU usage, so unless you really have a lot, you can
simply ignore them.
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