Zombies!

[Kalev Lember]

On 08/31/2011 12:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Attached is the output of 'ps afx' on my Fedora 16(-ish) laptop.
> Scroll down to the bottom and the subject line of this email will make
> more sense.
> 
> I can't find anything in Bugzilla about this, and I'm not sure even
> what component to assign this to.  (Although I'll probably try
> rebooting the machine first and seeing if the problem happens again)
> 
> kernel-3.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64
> systemd-33-1.fc16.x86_64
> glibc-2.14.90-1.x86_64
> glibc-2.14.90-1.i686
> glibc-2.14.90-4.x86_64
> 
> Nothing unusual in dmesg.

It's the job of PID 1 to reap zombies without a parent. My guess would
be that systemd is in a frozen state and not doing that.

Could it be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732020 that's
causing systemd to abort?

-- 
Kalev