On Sat April 27 2024 10:44:36 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > Then I searched for these zombies by PID, then tried to remove them with > kill -9 <PID #> > ... and nothing happened. According to top, all 17 were still enjoying > their undead life, and ignored my commands to go away. Zombies are already dead. Killing them does nothing. They will remain zombies until one of three events: (1) linux shutdown (2) parent collects them (3) parent dies When the parent dies they are collected by pid 1 instead. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx