James Wilkinson wrote:
> Ok, netscape has crashed again, this time hitting d-state, and refusing
> to die. I tried restarting it twice before doing a 'ps ax', and
> realising what it was doing.
>
> now, kill -9 `ps ax | grep netscape | cut -f 1 -d ' '` isn't killing
> them, they seem to change pids when given a SIGKILL.
>
> If anyone knows how to remove these evil zombies, I'd like to hear it.
>
> oh, and heres the output of 'ps ax', just to see what they're doing:
> 14738 ? D 0:00 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape -noraise -remote
> openURL(f
> 14741 ? Z 0:00 [netscape <defunct>]
> 14796 ? D 0:00 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape
> file:/home/jamesw/public_h
> 14811 ? Z 0:00 [netscape <defunct>]
> 14998 ? D 0:00 /usr/lib/netscape/netscape
> file:/home/jamesw/public_h
> 15013 ? Z 0:00 [netscape <defunct>]
>
> Thanks,
> --
> jamesw
>
>
When Netscape crashes do you use the right mouse button on the close button
to kill it? I have sometimes found that the left button will do nothing but
the right will kill the zombie.
Just a thought
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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