still having Zombie problems

[Olivier Fourdan]

Jack,

Oddly enough, I don't have such behaviour.

Anybody else having zombies ?

Cheers,
Olivier,

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 22:19, Jack Coates wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Mandrake 8.2, xfce 3.8.18.1 compiled from Edscott's src.rpm with
> --enable-xft & --disable-taskbar. xfce_upgrade was run to upgrade from
> 3.8.16.2 which was exhibiting the same problem.
> 
> Programs launched from xfce (including startup programs like xfmouse)
> will consistently zombie on exit. Programs launched from the desktop
> menu (xfwm) or from a shell work fine. KDE shows no such symptoms.
> 
> Here's a segment of pstree with status inserted:
> xfwm-+-esd			(running)
>      |-evolution		(running)
>      |-gpilotd			(running)
>      |-ssh-agent		(running)
>      |-xfce-+-aterm		(zombie)
>      |      |-everybuddy	(running)
>      |      |-xfmouse		(zombie)
>      |      `-xkill		(zombie)
>      |-xfgnome			(running)
>      |-xfsound			(running)
>      `-xscreensaver		(running)
> 
> 
> Here's the weird thing: I tried to get a backtrace with gdb, and a new
> xfce launched from within gdb from within xterm doesn't have the problem
> -- only the one that was launched from xfwm does it.
> 
> Totally puzzled,
> -- 
> Jack Coates
> Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
> 
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