http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980541 Bug ID: 980541 Summary: Zypper does not always show the command as documented Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: bjoernv@arcor.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- The manual page for Zypper says: "ps After each upgrade or removal of packages, there may be running processes on the system which continue to use meanwhile deleted files. zypper ps lists all processes using deleted files, together with the corresponding files, and a service name hint, in case it’s a known service. This gives a hint which services may need to be restarted after an update. Usually programs which continue to use deleted shared libraries. The list contains the following information: PID ID of the process PPID ID of the parent process UID ID of the user running the process Login Login name of the user running the process Command Command used to execute the process Service Service name, if command is associated with a system service Files The list of the deleted files" But often I do not see the command name, but some other function name. One example: # zypper ps -s The following running processes use deleted files: PID | PPID | UID | User | Command | Service ------+-------+------+------+----------------+-------- 3321 | 1 | 1000 | user | dconf worker | 3899 | 1 | 1000 | user | QThread | 3958 | 3287 | 1000 | user | QThread | 3980 | 0 | 1000 | user | Thread (pooled | 4262 | 3287 | 1000 | user | QThread | 12121 | 12114 | 1000 | user | seamonkey-bin | "seamonkey-bin" is correct. But the other processes have different command names. The "ps" names match the "zypper ps -s" description: "Command: Command used to execute the process". I truncated the session numbers as "...". # ps ax|egrep '3321|3899|3958|3980|4262|12121'|grep -v grep 3321 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/goa-daemon 3899 ? Sl 0:02 /usr/bin/kalarm -session ... 3958 ? Sl 4:43 /usr/bin/skype -session ... 3980 ? Sl 0:28 owncloud -session ... 4262 ? Sl 0:05 /usr/bin/korganizer -session ... 12121 pts/1 Sl 18:03 /usr/lib64/seamonkey/seamonkey-bin The manual page or the Zypper command should be corrected. I think, the "ps" process names are more useful for the users. If I see the "ps" names, I may manually restart the processes kalarm, skype etc. without rebooting. The "zypper ps" names are mostly not usable. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.