still having Zombie problems

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 17:42, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Jack,
> 
> Oddly enough, I don't have such behaviour.
> 
> Anybody else having zombies ?

Not me.

> 
> 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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> -- 
> Olivier               <fourdan at xfce.org>            http://www.xfce.org
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