Re: problem with chooser (or xdm, or X ?) on sparc-debian.
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> I have install sparc-debian on a small Sun machine (IPC) and
> configure it as an X terminal. Specifically I have a script with
> launches this command at boot
>
[snip]
> The problem is real because I have seen it happens many times, but it
> kind of unreproducible. It is at the least annoying because one might
> need to make many trial to get to the xdm login screen. Furtther,
> after several days I could have more than 10 zombie chooser and this
> seems to slowdown the machine. So what I have done is to restart xdm
> every week or so. This is the only way I have found (sort of
> rebooting) to get rid of the zombie, kill -9 dosn't work at all (why ?).
Kill -9 wont kill a zombie.
A zombie is formed when a proces s fork()s and the child exits. Until
the parent calls wait() to get the return value of the child the child
sticks around as a zombie...it is not actually running...
it is just taking up a process entry.
When you kill xdm (the parent) it fixes it...
I dunno about the rest...just that this i snormal for a zombie
(I had a zombie problem when I was working on making xfstt accept multiple
connections)
-Steve
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