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Doing a "ps auwx | grep defunct" gets me a number of processes that seem to be zombied:
user 2381 0.8 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 02:24 0:41 [gqview] <defunct>
user 2397 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 02:28 0:00 [firefox] <defunct>
user 2476 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 02:53 0:00 [firefox] <defunct>
user 2627 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 03:26 0:00 [soffice.bin] <defunct>
user 2765 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs 03:29 0:00 [firefox] <defunct>
Now, why would these programs be doing this? As far as I know, I started each of those programs and then shut them down and these zombies get left behind. I try to kill them off with "kill -9" and they won't die. Anybody else have this problem or know what's happening?
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A zombie isn't much more than the return value of an exited process. They're dead and gone already, nothing to kill. They're left behind because the program starting them (most likely your window manager) didn't call wait(), nor ignored the exit signal. It's harmless, but it's a mess left behind by a sloppy program.
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I see. I use icewm and didn't have this problem until I upgraded icewm... so maybe there is a bug there somewhere.
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