Hi Ingo, this is public again. For the others: You run on 32bit linux and a second Event Dispacher could be started and stopped while the zombie exists.
In dbm.prt of foodb that you sent there are basically two errors: 2006-01-06 13:20:57 0x00000d84 INF 283 DBMSrv command db_state 2006-01-06 13:20:57 0x00000d84 ERR -24961 DBMSrv ERR_STATE: The operational state of the database instance could not be determined 0x00000d84 ERR -24994 DBMSrv ERR_RTE: Runtime environment error 0x00000d84 ERR -24778 DBMSrv 20104,Incompatible version of running kernel and console! 0x00000d84 ERR -24778 DBMSrv Running kernel-version is: 0x00000d84 ERR -24778 DBMSrv Actual console-version is: X32/LINUX 7.6.00 Build 016-121-109-428 0x00000d84 ERR -24778 DBMSrv 20067,Getting Kernel state failed: No such file or directory This error does not affect your problem (is fixed in 7.6. build 19 though, check here http://www.sapdb.org/webpts?wptsdetail=yes&ErrorType=0&ErrorID=1138059 for detailed information). 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: ----> Symbolic Stack Back Trace <---- 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 0: 0x08058cc5 eo42_ExceptionHandlerProxy +0x0055 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbfffe37c] (0xb,0x33,0x0,0x7b) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 1: 0x00000000ffffe420 <not in any loaded region> 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbfffe37c] (0xb,0x33,0x0,0x7b) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 2: 0x0816b685 _ZN12DBMSrv_Reply12appendStringEPKc +0x0035 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbfffe678] (0xbffff190,0x8320901,0x0,0x83f76d8) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 3: 0x0816b79d _ZN12DBMSrv_Reply15startWithStringEPKc +0x002d 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbfffe698] (0xbffff190,0x8320901,0xbfffe6b8,0x8063bf4) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 4: 0x0805e5e4 ctrlservcommand +0x0064 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbfffe6b8] (0xbffff190,0x8320901,0xbffff258,0x40004d78) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 5: 0x08058ad3 c_main +0x0613 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbffff1c8] (0x8503720,0x84fedc0,0xbffff258,0xc84fe030) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: 6: 0x0805bc0a main +0x002a 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: /maxdbrun/sdb/7500/pgm/dbmsrv 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: Frameinfo [0xbffff5e8] (0x3,0xbffff6a4,0xbffff618,0x831c1e1) 0x00003c66 ERR -24809 DBMSrv ERR_STE: ----> End of Stack Back Trace <---- This is a crash of a DBM server. it occurs twice in the dbm.prt you sent. I'm afraid I cannot reproduce it here. It would be very helpful if you could provide a way to get to this crash. A crashed DBM server might have left the DBM server's shared memory in an uncorrect status, that contains information about a client Event Dispatcher that does not exist anymore. To get rid of this zombie, stop all DBM clients (GUIs, DBMCLIs and Event Dispatchers) of database foodb and remove the two files foodb.dbm.shi and foodb.dbm.shm from your <independent data>/wrk folder (the folder that contains the rundirectories by default). Now the zombie should be removed. Regards, Marc-Philip -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]