Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

To: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:28:23 +0200
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:58, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
<eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
>  It's a zombie process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
>

Eduardo's right, it's a zombie. I didn't look at the output that was
in the screenshot, but now that I did I see the Z in the stats column.
Killall -9 or reboot at that point.

Next time, please just paste the output, don't use a screenshot. Thanks!

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