On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:10:00 +0530
Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> severity 461349 normal
> merge 461349 459611
> thanks
> ...
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008, A. Costa wrote:
> > And killing its parents makes it go zombie. (Sounds like a movie!)
>
> This is "standard" *nix practice. If you kill the parents of a
> process then no one is (at home) waiting for it and it wanders for
> ever (like a zombie) in order to find someone who wants its exit
> code! :D
How would I stop this rampant process? Based on your diagnosis, it
sounds as if it should have been killable if the last child process
were killed first, working backwards.
If I recall correctly, 'kill -9' as 'root' didn't work, on either end
of the process tree/branch. It's happened at least five times now, so I've
had several chances to try different things. Rebooting worked.
> ...Other than the zombie part (which was created by the user), the bug
> is the same as #459611. So I'm downgrading and merging. Please see
> that bug report log for further information.
Thanks for the merge, I didn't know where it should go.
My rating was based on:
important
a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
normal
the default value, applicable to most bugs.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
This bug has had a "major effect" on my system.
HTH...
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