On 2015-09-20 12:04:48 +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2015-09-20 2:08 GMT+01:00 Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>: > > On 2015-09-20 02:50:45 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >> > >zira:~> pstree -ap 29204 > >> > >bash,29204 > >> > > └─aptitude,29206 > >> > > ├─(dpkg,29277) > >> > > ├─dpkg,30424 --status-fd 76 --configure geoclue-2.0:amd64 ... > >> > > │ └─sh,30438 -c... > >> > > │ └─less,30440 -Lis > >> > > └─{aptitude},29491 > >> > >> There was a zombie dpkg process that was a child of aptitude. > >> Where did it come from? > > There are dpkg processes launched to e.g. ascertain whether multi-arch > is supported, and if it needs to use the arch when calling dpkg and > apt. It is also called directly to reconfigre packages, but I assume > that you didn't issue that action.
No, I didn't. But why would it leave a zombie? > Probably apt also calls the dpkg command in that way internally. If > dpkg is called from libapt-pkg, it will be shown from within the > aptitude process, as in this case. > > If we could see the arguments, mayge we would get better clues. If > you can reproduce it in the future, please try to list the args of the > commands, if they are retrievable. The -p option shows the arguments: you can see this for the other processes. Unfortunately, as the dpkg was a zombie, the arguments were no longer available. > > And in the /var/log/aptitude log file: > > > > Aptitude 0.7.1: log report > > Sun, Sep 20 2015 00:34:35 +0200 > >[...] > > Aptitude 0.7.1: log report > > Sun, Sep 20 2015 00:35:01 +0200 > >[...] > > > > I don't understand why this is duplicated. > > It is not exactly duplicated, the dates are different. (But it could > be a bug of commiting the information twice to the logs, if you are > sure that you only ran it once in that period of time). Even if I had run aptitude twice (which is not possible due to locking, and BTW, when it was put in background, running aptitude again gave me a locking error), I couldn't have got the same logs. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
