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miqorz

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Registered: 2004-12-31

Posts: 475

netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

I was monitoring top the other day and noticed netstat was defunct and in a zombie state, well I didn't think much of it untill I rebooted yesterday and noticed the same thing happening.

Here's what I mean.

If some other people could check their top to see if the same is happening for them that'd be great.

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cactus

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Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

*shrug*
I don't have netstat running anywhere. Whenever I use it, I generally just call it once from a command line and check the output...

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JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

It's caused by evolution. It goes away when you kill all running evolution components after closing evolution and then killing the remaining parts with /opt/gnome/libexec/evolution/*/killev

miqorz

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Registered: 2004-12-31

Posts: 475

Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

Hah, I don't have ANYTHING gnome related installed.

Care to try again?

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miqorz

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Registered: 2004-12-31

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Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

Hm, killing X (after two days of usage) seems to have killed it away.

This is pretty odd.

EDIT: And suddenly after issuing the command it comes back.

EDIT2: It only becomes a defunct process when the command is issued in X.

Weird..

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tomby

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Registered: 2004-11-20

Posts: 5

Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

It's caused by mozilla. It uses netstat for the random number generator.

See this bug report.

Bye!

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

using evolution with mozilla-nss for my IMAP/SSL, the bug is in NSS, so that's why evolution is also having this problem

mmccaskill

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Registered: 2005-02-21

Posts: 165

Re: netstat is allways in a state of defunct.

Anyone still have this problem? I gather it must be from firefox as I don't have evolution installed.