Gary Gendel wrote:
> I always seem to have one zombie process on my system. It looks like it's a
> child of the dtlogin process. I'd like to track this down to see if it's a
> bug or just something silly I'm doing.
>
> Here is the zombie traceback:
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 474 1 0 Jul 14 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
> root 503 474 0 Jul 14 ? 0:00 /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon
> root 575 503 0 Jul 14 ? 11:32 dtgreet -display :0
> root 587 575 0 - ? 0:00 <defunct>
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
It's a bug. dtgreet (via Motif) is forking off a gunzip to uncompress the
login screen backdrops and not wait()'ing for the child properly. I think
it's fixed in Solaris Nevada soon. You could permanently gunzip the files
and update the styleModern config to use the non-.gz file names for them if
it really bothers you.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
