On Saturday 27 April 2024 11:14:36 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > 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. Yes, as demonstrated by killing tderandrtray, which makes my current zombie go away, but doesn't explain those others, all named w and owned by root. I did try finding the parent of those w processes, but when I searched, the processes didn't even come up in the list of zombies when I ran the command ps -el | grep 'Z' It may be that those unused packages of wicd were causing the others. I will have to wait to find out the answer to that. Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
