firestarter start failure?

[Ed Greshko]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Just had occasion to reboot 8.04 and got a boot message that firestarter 
> had failed to start. When the boot was complete I opened firestarter and 
> it's status was shown as active.
> 
> ps -aux showed:
> 
> holtzm    7005  0.8  0.6  33268 12612 ?        S    21:54   0:00 gksu 
> /usr/sbin/firestarter
> root      7006  0.7  0.7  46048 15364 ?        Ssl  21:54   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/firestarter
> 
> I didn't understand the explanation in the ps man page of the STAT column 
> codes (S and Ssl).
> 
> Anyone want to give me some pointers?

man ps

The relevant section is...

PROCESS STATE CODES
Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output specifiers
(header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of a process.
D    Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R    Running or runnable (on run queue)
S    Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
T    Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced.
W    paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel)
X    dead (should never be seen)
Z    Defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by its parent.

For BSD formats and when the stat keyword is used, additional characters may 
be displayed:
<    high-priority (not nice to other users)
N    low-priority (nice to other users)
L    has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
s    is a session leader
l    is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)
+    is in the foreground process group