Zombie processes Firefox and Mozilla

[Markus Huber]

Hi,

does anyone experience zombie processes after having started firefox or 
mozilla? They are there immediatly after having started firefox or 
mozilla. I do not know since when I have them, just saw them yesterday, 
when I was tracking a bad data-harddisk - which is replaced by now.

This FC4-box is at actual patchlevel, and the versions are:
[markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q mozilla
mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
[markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4

Here's an excerpt of:

[markus@fc4 ~]$ ps -ux

USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND

markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00
markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Sl   14:08   4:26 
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
[mozilla-bin] <defunct>
markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00 
[netstat] <defunct>

Thank you for any suggestion,
Markus Huber

[Paul Smith]

On 12/9/05, Markus Huber  wrote:
> does anyone experience zombie processes after having started firefox or
> mozilla? They are there immediatly after having started firefox or
> mozilla. I do not know since when I have them, just saw them yesterday,
> when I was tracking a bad data-harddisk - which is replaced by now.
>
> This FC4-box is at actual patchlevel, and the versions are:
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4

I do not know whether it is related to that or not, but often the
window of Forefox does not show up and I have to go to kill the
Firefox process and start again Firefox. (Running Firefox 1.5 from the
tarball.)

Paul

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 12/9/05, Paul Smith  wrote:
> I do not know whether it is related to that or not, but often the
> window of Forefox does not show up and I have to go to kill the
> Firefox process and start again Firefox. (Running Firefox 1.5 from the
> tarball.)

Question:
Do you mean literally from the "tarball" download file itself - or
after it was installed?

???
--
WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting

[Paul Smith]

On 12/9/05, Chasecreek Systemhouse  wrote:
> > I do not know whether it is related to that or not, but often the
> > window of Forefox does not show up and I have to go to kill the
> > Firefox process and start again Firefox. (Running Firefox 1.5 from the
> > tarball.)
>
> Question:
> Do you mean literally from the "tarball" download file itself - or
> after it was installed?

I wanted to mean that my Firefox was installed in my home directory by
using the tarball.

Paul

[Paul Smith]

On 12/9/05, Paul Smith  wrote:
> > > I do not know whether it is related to that or not, but often the
> > > window of Forefox does not show up and I have to go to kill the
> > > Firefox process and start again Firefox. (Running Firefox 1.5 from the
> > > tarball.)
> >
> > Question:
> > Do you mean literally from the "tarball" download file itself - or
> > after it was installed?
>
> I wanted to mean that my Firefox was installed in my home directory by
> using the tarball.

And I have a menu entry to Firefox (added by myself) in the K menu.
So, it may be a problem of KDE.

Paul

[Markus Huber]

Paul Smith schrieb:
> I do not know whether it is related to that or not, but often the
> window of Forefox does not show up and I have to go to kill the
> Firefox process and start again Firefox. (Running Firefox 1.5 from the
> tarball.)

No, I do not experience this behaviour. It starts fine, and all the 
zombies are around. Spooooky.

Although: the new version of Openoffice.org does not start immediatly, I 
have to start it twice. Have not yet figured out why.

Thanks
Markus

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

On 12/9/05, Markus Huber  wrote:
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ ps -ux
>
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>
> markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin

You could have done an "su - -c lsof" command and grep'ed to see if
any of the mozilla files were on the bad drive.  If it continues, back
out the mozilla/firefox software and re-install just those rpms.

HTH/Bill
--
WC -Sx- Jones | http://ccsh.us/ | Open Source Consulting

[Markus Huber]

Chasecreek Systemhouse schrieb:
> On 12/9/05, Markus Huber  wrote:
> > [markus@fc4 ~]$ ps -ux
> >
> > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> >
> > markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26
> > /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
>
> You could have done an "su - -c lsof" command and grep'ed to see if
> any of the mozilla files were on the bad drive.  If it continues, back
> out the mozilla/firefox software and re-install just those rpms.

Theoretically there should not have been any of mozilla/firefox files on 
the bad drive. The partitions were only mounted on /mnt/... and 
softlinked into the home directory. I have restored all the data from 
the backups and it works just as it did. All the dot-files of my home 
directory are on a different drive, and so are the mozilla/firefox 
system files.

Thank you
Markus Huber

[SiO4, Yong Hwan]

I'm using same version of firefox now. and when I run firefox,
the netstat, firefox-bin's only one child, remained as zombie.

On 2005-12-10 02:43, Markus Huber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone experience zombie processes after having started firefox or 
> mozilla? They are there immediatly after having started firefox or 
> mozilla. I do not know since when I have them, just saw them yesterday, 
> when I was tracking a bad data-harddisk - which is replaced by now.
>
> This FC4-box is at actual patchlevel, and the versions are:
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4
>
> Here's an excerpt of:
>
> [markus@fc4 ~]$ ps -ux
>
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
>
> markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
> markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00
> markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Sl   14:08   4:26 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
> markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00 
> [netstat] <defunct>
>
> Thank you for any suggestion,
> Markus Huber