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i can start it but it warns me of lock file and process id 1547, what is a zombie On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Greg Thomas wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Rolando Roman wrote: >
i have a process that i can't kill any reason why i can't kill netscape 1547, every time i run netscape it poinst to a proces id already running? landy 609 0.0 7.9 11548 4980 ? S Jul02 0:51 panel landy 618 0.0 1.5 7368 960 ? S Jul02 0:04 asclock_applet -$landy 1547 83.6 0.0 32476 8 ? R Jul02 1915:00 [netscape] landy 1558 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Jul02 0:00 [netscape
It appears to just be a zombie. Are you sure that the reason you can't start netscape is because of the process id or a lock file?
You can still start netscape if you hit ok on the warning message. To get rid of that message delete /home/rolando/.netscape/lock.
Greg
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