Everything is described on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482346
(see the full discussion). Here's a summary: When I start vlc from zsh and interrupt it with Ctrl-C several times, it segfaults, the kernel oops whilst trying to page in memory to write the coredump, and the vlc process remains as a zombie. When I kill its parent (zsh), the zombie is re-attached to init. The load average is increased by 4 (e.g., if I have 3 zombies, the load average becomes 12 while the CPU is idle). Also, I didn't notice it before, but the screen brightness is automatically set to 100%. My current kernel is linux-image-2.6.24-1-powerpc 2.6.24-7 (I had the same problem with the previous version 2.6.24-6). Note: When I start vlc from bash or pdksh, I do not have this problem. So, if you want to try to reproduce it, use zsh to start vlc (even "zsh -f" to make sure rc files do not change anything important). Does anyone else have the same problem? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
