zombie

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 12:05 -0400, ajtiM wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I uninstalled Festival and now i have one zombie:
>> 
>>  8687 ?        00:00:00 speech-dispatch
>>  8689 ?        00:00:00 sd_flite
>>  8694 ?        00:00:00 sd_festival <defunct>
>> 
>> I killed speech-dispatch but when i start computer again process are still 
>> here.
>
>Try "ps wwwauxf | less" and search using "/" for "speech".  I'm guessing
>you'll see that the 'sd_festival' was a child process of
>'speech-dispatch'.  If it's hanging out for long as a zombie like that,
>it probably means that the 'speech-dispatch' program has not performed a
>"wait()" system call for it (see: 'man wait' if you have the
>manpages-dev package installed, or find it in "info libc" if you have
>the glibc-doc).  That's a minor bug in the program.  A zombie does not
>take up much resources, so don't fret it too much.

Does pstree also work for finding the parent process?

/M

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