27 Apr
2024
27 Apr
'24
6:22 p.m.
On Saturday 27 April 2024 11:14:36 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Sat April 27 2024 10:44:36 William Morder via
tde-users wrote:
Yes, as demonstrated by killing tderandrtray, which makes my current zombie go
away, but doesn't explain those others, all named w and owned by root.
I did try finding the parent of those w processes, but when I searched, the
processes didn't even come up in the list of zombies when I ran the command
ps -el | grep 'Z'
It may be that those unused packages of wicd were causing the others. I will
have to wait to find out the answer to that.
Bill
Then I searched for these zombies by PID, then
tried to remove them with
kill -9 <PID #>
... and nothing happened. According to top, all 17 were still enjoying
their undead life, and ignored my commands to go away.
Zombies are already dead. Killing them does nothing. They will remain
zombies until one of three events:
(1) linux shutdown
(2) parent collects them
(3) parent dies
When the parent dies they are collected by pid 1 instead.