Bug#637206: linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64: zombie after running iceweasel under valgrind

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:15:13PM +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > In short: I've got a zombie process child of init. I suppose that's
> > a kernel bug.
> 
> Something's seriously weird there, but isn't this currently phrased as
> an init bug (i.e., "init" is not successfully waiting on its child)?
[...]
 
It seems unlikely.  I suspect the process has hung somewhere along
the exit path in the kernel, so that from userland it appears to have
exited (Z state) but it hasn't yet reached the point where it can be
reaped.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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