<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hello Gavin, I also saw this post on the mailinglist: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00537.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00537.html</a> which also contains a script which can be executed by a cron-job. It works, so the scripting part won't be a problem. But I find it rather strange that something like this happens. Because the programs are started as child of gnome-session, gnome-session itself should take care of the rest, right? So when the gnome-session gets a SIGTERM, it should kill it's child along with it, right? Well, I see now, that gnome-session doesn't create childs, but that gnome-panel and other processes are created as seperated processes. So they are not childs (saw it with "ps fax"). But anyway, gnome-session does take care of your session, so he needs to kill the rest with it, right? Greetings, Michiel Gavin McCullagh wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20070403093108.GD32302@gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Eduwijs & Todd, On Tue, 03 Apr 2007, Eduwijs beheer (Michiel) wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have the same "problems" as the user on which I reply. Why does this happen? I don't use ltsp, but I use Nomachine NX. The processes that will stay running are gnome-panel and bonobo-activation-server. And gnome-panel is using then a lot of CPU. What could be the cause of this? They aren't zombies. I'm also running Ubuntu 6.10. The session is started with the command: "dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session". But when this closes, it won't kill the other programs which are running with the session itself. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I'm not sure what the reason for the stale processes is, but I recall reading on the debian-edu lists that people were writing workaround scripts for clearing out old processes some months back. A quick search gives me: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater/x4181.html">http://www.skolelinux.no/~klaus/newnotater/x4181.html</a> which assumes you are using KDM in that he suggests you hook it into /etc/kde2/kdm/Xreset. As edubuntu doesn't use KDM, I suppose you could possibly put it in /etc/X11/Xsession or even in the ssh_remote_command variable in /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/sbin/ldm. It also seems to presume nobody is logged in in two places (which they probably shouldn't anyway). Gavin </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Michiel Eghuizen Eduwijs BV </pre> </body> </html>