I don't think your xorg.conf matters - since the parent is metacity,
the GNOME window manager, I've cc'ed desktop-discuss in hopes one of
the GNOME engineers can investigate further.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> Thanks Alan I didn't know about preap and ptree...
>
> Here is the output of ptree, hope you can figure out why this is being
> created and if its reproducible on other machines. If you need my xorg.conf
> let me know.
>
> ~# ptree 605
> 519 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> 520 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary
> 557 /usr/bin/ctrun -l child -i none /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession
> /usr/bin/dtstart jds
> 566 /usr/bin/gnome-session
> 602 /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default0
> 605 <defunct>
>
>
> --amit
>
> --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>> You can't kill a zombie, you have to preap it - but
>> first you should ptree it
>> to find out which parent process is letting their children
>> become zombies.
>
>
>
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