Assuming that you don't have a device problem (which very frequently
accounts for zombie problems), then your attack approach is to kill the
parent of the zombie. When the parent goes away, the zombie will be
inherited by init and then init will reap the process status.
The problem is occurring in the first place because the parent of the
zombie is not executing a wait system call.
One last note: If the parent is a shell, you can just either hit return or
issue the wait command without having to kill the parent.
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Warren Mansur wrote:
=>Hi,
=>
=>What do you do when you have a process that will not die? I tried
=>regular kill, and then I tried kill -9. I killed all processes that
=>could be associated with the process. But, I still cannot kill the
=>process. Is there any way to do this without rebooting?
=>
=>Thanks.
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