zombie

[ajtiM]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 15:51, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 12:05 -0400, ajtiM wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I uninstalled Festival and now i have one zombie:
> >>
> >>  8687 ?        00:00:00 speech-dispatch
> >>  8689 ?        00:00:00 sd_flite
> >>  8694 ?        00:00:00 sd_festival <defunct>
> >>
> >> I killed speech-dispatch but when i start computer again process are
> >> still here.
> >
> >Try "ps wwwauxf | less" and search using "/" for "speech".  I'm guessing
> >you'll see that the 'sd_festival' was a child process of
> >'speech-dispatch'.  If it's hanging out for long as a zombie like that,
> >it probably means that the 'speech-dispatch' program has not performed a
> >"wait()" system call for it (see: 'man wait' if you have the
> >manpages-dev package installed, or find it in "info libc" if you have
> >the glibc-doc).  That's a minor bug in the program.  A zombie does not
> >take up much resources, so don't fret it too much.
>
> Does pstree also work for finding the parent process?
>
> /M

I uninstalled speech now and problem is saved.

Thanks to all help.