Arch Linux

visio159

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

Sigh !

I don't know what happened but a few minute before when I rebooted my Arch Linux desktop, it started acting weird.

First thing I do is to start my torrent client Deluge, look there was no icon in the tray for it but it was shown in System-monitor.

Then I started Firefox, a few minute later the whole thing logged off. I renter my password and then again it logged of within one minute.

So I rebooted to see if that changes this time, but this time I could see was that firefox was shown as ZOMBIE process and then when I tried to take the screenshot the system hanged

Some thing I did today was
Installed Yaourt
Then installed nautilus-dropbox plugin

Dropboxd service runs in background, so is there something fishy about the dropbox service. I tried to kill it but it again restarts.

Please help me from zombie infestation, I am writing this from Ubuntu

Last edited by visio159 (2008-09-14 08:41:47)

visio159

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

No one replied !!! huh

Well good news is that my RAM module needed a dust cleanup. Probably due to corrupt memory it was behaving bad.

I am impressed that it (linux) logged me off when it detected that there were memory violation and corruptions to prevent any data damage ! Now can anyone explain this to me ? Is it really a feature or was just random occurring ?

Case solved, learned a lesson too.

Last edited by visio159 (2008-09-13 05:44:10)

whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

I don't know if this is a feature, but you should mark this thread as solved.

Oh and remember always to do some spring cleaning on your computer.

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z0phi3l

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From: Waterbury CT

Registered: 2007-11-26

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

What WM are you using, and does it have an option to restart with your last session? If it does, turn it off and see if that fixes your zombie problem, I had a problem similar to that in KDE and setting it to start a new session every time I restarted fixed it

quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

Re: [SOLVED] Arch Linux is zombie infested !!!

ZOMBIE is the state some programs might be on (in windows there are no "zombies")

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