[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 1196828] Re: Cannot restart banshee after crash

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:05:49PM -0000, John Reid wrote:
> Killing bash make the PPID 1 and banshee won't start
> 
> ~/Downloads
> john at W530$  kill 15673
> ~/Downloads
> john at W530$  kill -9 15673
> ~/Downloads
> john at W530$  ps -ef|grep banshee
> john      6435  4624  0 20:04 pts/21   00:00:00 grep --color=auto banshee
> john     25995     1  3 13:00 ?        00:14:35 [banshee] <defunct>
> ~/Downloads
> john at W530$  banshee --debug
> ** Running Mono with --debug   **
> [1 Debug 20:05:23.875] Bus.Session.RequestName ('org.bansheeproject.Banshee') replied with InQueue

Hmm, very weird.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11172/how-can-i-kill-a-defunct-process-whose-parent-is-init
seems to show a similar case, with no solution.

This is just another stab in the dark, but could you check the output of "ps -p
25995 -o stat"? If it says "Z", then it would definitely be a zombie process.
Also please try "kill -SIGCHLD 1". This shouldn't kill init, but just notify
init that there's a child process waiting for reaping.

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Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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Title:
  Cannot restart banshee after crash

Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  If banshee crashes the sound/audio system menu still shows it as
  available but nothing happens if I click on it. With ps I can see a
  defunct banshee process that cannot be removed. If I try to run
  banshee from the command line nothing happens. Restarting gdm and/or
  unity also has no effect. As far as I can tell there is now no way to
  start banshee short of rebooting which is annoying. Does anyone know
  how I can start banshee without closing everything down and rebooting?
  Perhaps there is some part of Ubuntu that controls the sound menu and
  I can restart that? I was hoping it was part of gdm or unity but
  restarting them didn't help.

  Description:	Ubuntu 13.04
  Release:	13.04
  but I have seen the same behaviour in 12.04

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