on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:02:39PM +0100, Thomas Adam insinuated:
> --- Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu> wrote:
>
> > zombie and start up X on console 7, or, failing that, tell X to
> > ignore the zombie and start up on console 6 or 8 or something like
> > that for the time being?
>
> Zombie processes indicate the parent threw a wobblie and left the
> children out in the cold. You'll just have to wait until the kernel
> flushes it, or the parent becomes active. But on the case of xdm the
> parent is init, so you're probably better of either rebooting, or at
> a push:
>
> telinit 1
> telinit 2
reading the manpage, that seems to say that it would first take the
system in to single-user mode, and then ... what's runlevel 2 do?
would doing that kill all processes, like my smbfs mounts that i was
trying to save?
(not a big deal right now, since the problem was solved by restarting
xdm, but i'm curious.)
thanks,
</nori>
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