[mythtv-users] Zombie process

[Joe Ripley]

On 5/15/07, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I tracked it down and it's always xbindkeys:
>
> mythtv    3158  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    11:55   0:00
> [xbindkeys] <defunct>
> mythtv    3159  2.0  5.4  81512 13976 ?        SLl  11:55   0:00 mythwelcome
> mythtv    3161  0.0  0.3   4480   860 ?        S    11:55   0:00 xbindkeys
>
> I have one that says defunct (the zombie) and one normal. Does anyone
> know whay this might be?

A zombie process is a program that was started as a child process of
another program/process.  The child dies and the parent fails to read
the exit status.  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process for
more info.

Something else is starting xbindkeys.  xbindkeys then dies, and the
parent doesn't wait() for it.  Check your startup scripts to see if
something is starting xbindkeys.  You might be able to track down the
problem that way.  What distro are you using?

-- 
Joe Ripley
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