Zombie processes left by Xfce4 programs (Thunar, xfdesktop, ...)

[Stephan Arts]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Rob <spamrefuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stephan Arts wrote:
> >
> > Well, it sounds like a new problem, do you have an idea which
> > application actually crashed?
>
> I got it again with xfdesktop. The program "file-roller" has become
> zombie, because it is dangling from xfdesktop. Only when I kill
> xfdesktop I can get rid of the zombie. Here are the details from the
> terminal:
>
> $ ps -Al | grep Z
> F S UID   PID   PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
> 0 Z 500 30473  9403 0 80 0 - 0 exit ? 00:00:04 file-roller <defunct>
>
> $ ps --ppid 9403
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> 30473 ?        00:00:04 file-roller <defunct>
>
> $ ps --pid 9403
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>  9403 ?        00:31:25 xfdesktop
>
>
> Hence, there's also something wrong with the xfdesktop executable.
> (See my first email of this thread for details on my system and xfce
> version).

Please stop sending html e-mails. And especially the ones containing
bold text!!!

Have you tried Colin's hint?

>
> Regards,
> Rob.

Stephan