I have just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my newly bought system. I also have Win2K installed on a partition.
Everything was working fine, until few days ago when i tried to boot into Linux, it gave me a kernel panic saying "unable to mount root fs".I was surprised, since i havent changed any partition or done anything with the installation.So i again reinstalled Mandrake 8.0,it got installed properly...but yesterday when i saw the login window i saw almost 20 icons [penguins] corresponding to different users [i made only one user]....and all these users seem to be the various services in linux.....also there used to be a button from which i could shutdown the machine....but now its not there...i can only logout.....[i can do a shutdown from command prompt]....Just wanted to know why the behaviour is changing every few days without my meddling anything in the system....
Thanks in advance for any help
Regards
Ketan.
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Wednesday 03 Mar 2004 7:47 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:How do I kill zombie processes? When I run TOP it shows that there are 2 zombie processes, but I don't know how to determine their PID, so I don't know how to kill them.I'm figuring that a zombie is a process which has crashed. Right? Thanks.From man ps: "Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits"Zombie processes are processes that have exited, but whose parent process hasn't got around to cleaning up. Therefore it is more likely that the parent process has crashed. To find the parent process use the command: ps axgl The PPID is the PID of the parent. The PID is the PID of the process. Search the list for the zombies (status Z), note their PPID, then search the list for the process with that PID. When a process dies any child processes it still has are adopted by the init process (PID 1). Init spends all it's time waiting for child processes, so zombies will be quickly tidied up. If the parent has hung you probably want to terminate it with extreme prejudice, so kill -KILL the parent process and the zombies will go away. That's (as root): kill -KILL [PID of parent]
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