Problem with Netscape making zombies!
Hello Debian Users List!, I seem to be having problems with Netscape 3.01 spawning zombie 'netstat' processes, and thus hanging. I was wondering if anybody knows a fix for this. The only cause I can think of for this is that the Netscape coders forgot to do a 'wait' in the parent process. If thats the case, then there's nothing I can do. However, I don't recall this problem ever occuring before with other distributions. So perhaps it's something else besides sloppy coding? And also, I can sometimes get netscape to start. So this sort of alludes to the idea that it's not Netscape's fault but something else. Thanks in advance for any help on this! == Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. a.k.a. The Tick Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.coming.to.a.web.site.near.you.com Come meet me on quake.linpeople.org for Quake or irc.linpeople.org for IRC!
Re: Problem with Netscape making zombies!
Tick == The Tick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tick Hello Debian Users List!, I seem to be having problems with
Tick Netscape 3.01 spawning zombie 'netstat' processes, and thus
Tick hanging. I was wondering if anybody knows a fix for this.
Tick The only cause I can think of for this is that the Netscape
Tick coders forgot to do a 'wait' in the parent process. If
Tick thats the case, then there's nothing I can do.
Tick However, I don't recall this problem ever occuring
Tick before with other distributions. So perhaps it's something
Tick else besides sloppy coding? And also, I can sometimes get
Tick netscape to start. So this sort of alludes to the idea that
Tick it's not Netscape's fault but something else.
I've seen this too. I've found that if I run netscape from an xterm
that is started to NOT be a login shell, ('xterm +ls ') it works, but
if it is one, then netscape hangs with a zombie netstat, after it runs
some MIME tests
It won't start from my TkDesk toolbar, or from an fvwm2 menu. It will
start from ~/.xsession, the same one that starts the fvwm2... It does
the same thing regardless of whether it's been installed with the
Debian installer. I've watched it with tkps, and it runs a series of
programs from /var/lib/mime/tests, and then finally hangs with the
zombie netstat.
It may be environment dependant; I have not isolated the cause yet...
It seems to depend on where I start netscape from.
The /var/lib/mime/tests/* scripts are not the cause; none of them call
netstat. Hmmm. I'm stumped.
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
You tell me and we'll both know.
Re: Problem with Netscape making zombies!
I had a line in my ~/.bash_profile like this: export PATH=.:~/programs/bin:$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin ... hashing it out fixed the netscape problem. It also runs from the fvwm2 menu now, since I added: export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:~/bin ... to my ~/.xsession just before the call to start fvwm2, which is on the last line of my script. So, the question is: Why does that PATH cause this to happen? Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t You tell me and we'll both know.
