Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:49:05 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si Subject: Re: Latest stable (r287104) bash leaves zombies on exit Message-ID: <E1ZUxY9-000Bma-Ic@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <63a84f64baf8768a551fc6464e8e9526@mailbox.ijs.si>
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> I can reproduce this easily, although not every time. Ah, thats good to hear, as it means I am not going completely mad, thanks! :) > Running 10.2 under KDE, with bash as a default shell: > start xterm from a KDE 'konsole', then move to within the xterm > and try closing it (^D or exit). More often than not the xterm > will block and stay open, the bash process within goes <defunct>. As you can reproduce this, is it possible for you to find out if the issue is with bash or xterm ? i.e. if you change the shell to /bin/sh then does it still do it ? That would help track it down... > There is no need to reboot, just kill -9 the hanging xterm processes > and the init will clear the zombies. Thats saved me a lot of time ;) I had this idea that zombies will only go away on a reboot. -pete.
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