<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Mark Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fatgerman@ntlworld.com">fatgerman@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 20:22:04 Seth Daniel wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:31:07AM -0500, Johnny wrote:<br>
> > While looking into another problem I have noticed that I usually have<br>
> > from 1 to 3 defunct mythfrontend processes running. They are listed as<br>
> > children of the active mythfrontend process. I never noticed this<br>
> > before in the past. The defunct children are there immediately after<br>
> > mythfrontend starts. I have only seen it since I upgraded to Ubuntu<br>
> > 9.10 and mythtv .22. Is anybody else seeing this? Is this a bug of<br>
> > some sort? Or is this normal and of no concern?<br>
><br>
><br>
> I believe it has to do with MythWeather. MythWeather launches a number<br>
> of scripts at the startup of the frontend that query whatever weather<br>
> site it queries. As best I can tell when those scripts end the process<br>
> that was spawned to run that script is not cleaned up (i.e. wait()ed<br>
> for).<br>
><br>
> Are all people reporting this running MythWeather?<br>
><br>
> I'm not a Myth dev, but this doesn't seem like a big issue to me (I'm not<br>
> advocating that it go unresolved).<br>
><br>
><br>
</div>Yes I'm running Mythweather altough I didn't actually realise it.. must have clicked something by accident :) I'll remove it and report back if the problem persists.<br>
<br>
I think zombie processes are always a big issue.<br>
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Mark<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Another "me too", with no MythWeather and no MythWelcome. <br><br>Are people using LiveTV? I think I was able to create a zombie by entering Watch TV when tuner(s) were in use, or certain other tuner conditions, but I would have to check when I am home...<br>
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