Hi Gerard, >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ursprüngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Am 01.12.01, 16:26:37, schrieb g.patel@wanadoo.fr.invalid (gerard patel) zum Thema Re: Does Wine leave a Zombie-Thread behind?: > >Is there a bug tracker or is something like this picked up in the mailing list? > If you don't have anything more precise, it's not worth > the bother. The Wine bug database is full at 80% of > worthless crap without any technical detail, no need to > add more stuff (note that I don't deny that the other 20% > *is* interesting, of course). > I have one test app that does that - leave one, or more > threads hanging, and it's not an easy problem. I know the > patch that caused it, I don't understand why, and it only > does it on one of my 2 computers. On the other box, the > problem never occurs. It's probably system dependant (glibc > or even kernel) > If your problem is as simple as that, a simple report will not > be sufficient anyway :-/ Sure, but without having the awareness of what is needed to fix the bug I will not post anything. As I can read from your posting, this problem seems to be known. > >>Personally I have a script, killwine, in my path for tidying such things up; > >>it kills wine, winedebug and wineserver and then deletes the socket. Very > >>heavy-handed but I get to use it every couple of days. > > > > > >could be worth putting it into cron :-) > >Is your script public available? > here is mine > killall -9 wine > killall -9 winedbg > killall -9 wineserver > and for the lock file : > rm $WINEPREFIX/wineserver-duron.chapeau/socket > I have several versions of Wine running, but for you > WINEPREFIX will probably be the default value : .wine Thanks, I will use your hints to fix it Cheers Axel