still having Zombie problems

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sun Sep 1 00:57:55 CEST 2002


Jack,

> 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.

starce might be helpful here. Add a new entry to the menu looking like


xterm -e strace xterm


So you might see what's happening.

Cheers,
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