Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (129 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 December 2011 11:17:21 Michal Kubeček wrote:

> > > [firefox-bin]<defunct>
> > >
> > > How should I terminate it without reboot?
> >
> > Did you tried sending SIGKILL to the processes ?
>
> Sending KILL to a zombie doesn't help.
>
> > (by default SIGTERM is sent, not SIGKILL) also report a bug against
> > firefox, it should not do that
>
> The problem is not this process (it's finished now), the problem is its 
> parent. It should have called waitpid() or similar but it haven't for 
> some reason. Killing the parent is the way to get rid of the zombie.

What parent has firefox? Now it again hangs as zombie.
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