Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > Notice that when running firefox I was seeing a zombie program running > that is linked to restorecon?? > > Looked at script and found this line in it. > > restorecon -vr ~/.mozilla/firefox/* & > > It does clear once firefox is closed, but nothing would clear it while > running. > > I changed the line to > restorecon -vr ~/.mozilla/firefox/* #& > And no longer get the zombie?
The restorecon call was added (as you may have seen while editing /usr/bin/firefox) for bug #1731371¹. The zombie process issue was noted in comment 16 of the ticket and was addressed in a subsequent update which may not have reached the stable repos yet. The update with the fix is marked as stable in bodhi, but the push to get that into the repos may not have completed or not reached the mirror you're using. In case you want to test the current update: F31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-947b399b81 F32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-16dc2f1aeb > Takes almost no time to run the command, so not sure what > the purpose of have the & on the line is? In many cases it might not, but if it were to block the startup of firefox, even by a few seconds, that would surely lead to bug reports for the Firefox maintainer(s) and a poor experience for users who have slower disk or whatever else might cause restorecon to be slow for them. The fix that was implemented runs the restorecon command in a subshell, still in the background. It looks like the longer-term fix is for Firefox to not need to call restorecon itself, but have restorecond handle this task as needed. That's what I took from comments 21, 22, & 23 in bug #1731371. A bug for the SELinux policycoreutils package was filed as #1888994² for that. Hope that's useful info, Michael or anyone following along. ¹ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1731371 - Downloaded Widevine plugin do have wrong SELinux label ² https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1888994 -- Todd
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
