[SOLVED]Init creating defuncted processes

JoccE · 2016-01-25 02:32:11

I have had Arch installed for 2+ years now and never had any problems i could not fix.

Lately i have s started getting defuncted process (Mostly SSH) with parent being init (PID 1)

I have googled and wikied and searched on Archlinux forums but cant seam to find any solution.
after a restart it works for 2-4 days then the problem starts up again.

I have tried updating the kernel and systemd.
Linux pajkanon-arch 4.3.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 20 08:12:23 CET 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Using XFCE4 (Latest)

journalctl shows nothing weird.

Current uptime is 4 Days and this is the amount of processes defuncted:
http://pastebin.com/d8nx5AFx

Been thinking as a last solution to just reinstall Arch since it has been 2 years, but better ask here first.

Last edited by JoccE (2016-01-29 12:03:26)

R00KIE · 2016-01-25 13:51:32

I would take a look at all the services (and sockets) you have enabled. Something seems to be running ssh as the user nobody, so that may provide some clue to the source of the problem. You might want to say how you got the output you show on pastebin as the columns are not labeled.

JoccE · 2016-01-25 17:36:27

The output is just a normal ps -ef

Here is all the services running:
http://pastebin.com/tmivg7n8

And i dont even have a user named nobody,

I do use SSHFS to mount a ssh remote folder tho.
its not only ssh processes tho, there are Python, File-roller, sub13, java and others

I think i get the defunct ssh ones after 1-2 days when ssh connections starts taking 10~ Sec to connect.
I cant check it now since i just rebooted, but with ssh -vvv there are no errors, just takes a long time.

and systemd seams to break with connection timeout errors:
Failed to reboot system via logind: Connection timed out
Failed to start reboot.target: Connection timed out

have to use restart -f to force it down

WorMzy · 2016-01-25 18:14:07

JoccE wrote:

i dont even have a user named nobody

Why not? That user is included as part of the filesystem package, so if you don't have it, you have either removed it yourself and not re-added it when you merge your pacnew files, or something has gone wrong with your installation.

JoccE · 2016-01-25 18:34:30

WorMzy wrote:

JoccE wrote:
i dont even have a user named nobody
Why not? That user is included as part of the filesystem package, so if you don't have it, you have either removed it yourself and not re-added it when you merge your pacnew files, or something has gone wrong with your installation.

Hmm guess i will have to reinstall it then, sounds like the easy and fast solution.

R00KIE · 2016-01-25 20:05:47

The user must be there otherwise ps would not know how to map the uid to a name. The problem must be something else.

Did you truncate the output of 'systemctl list-unit-files'? I don't see sshd there but you must have it installed, otherwise you couldn't run it.

JoccE · 2016-01-26 00:53:36

Ended up doing a quick reinstall.

Learnt a lot in the past 2 years so already it is better
Fixed some of the minor bugs i had, thanks tho @R00KIE

R00KIE · 2016-01-26 19:50:25

If you solved your problem then please edit your first post and prepend [Solved] to the title.

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[SOLVED]Init creating defuncted processes

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