After stopping the mysql deamon I have reapplied the kernel patch on several affected machines. The zombie problem doesn't exist any longer.
That's a (happy) coincidence, the error/malfunction appears randomly due to an uninitialized variable. The problem is fixed, and the kernels are on their way to your YOU. Please be patient while we're makeing sure that you wouldn't even be able to write mails about failures any more...
which OS? I tried it on one 9.0 machine and there's no difference. That machine had actually no mysqld running at all (and never before) during the first installation. I started it and it was even worse on that system because it produced a series of defunct processes right at startup, so that the startup takes so long that the init script thinks it failed. I reapplied the kernel while mysqld was shutdown, rebooted and there's unfortunately no difference :-(
Thanks,
Roman.
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