F13: Acroread (Adobe reader) on FF crashes with a defunct process.

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 03/29/2011 11:38 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 11:09 AM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>>  ps -aux | grep acroread
>> <me>       4277  2.3  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    10:25   0:25
>> [acroread]<defunct>
> kill -9 4277
>
> gets rid of it.  Or, simply use this:
>
> killall -9 accoread
>
> and Bob's your uncle.  HTH, HAND.
Yeah, that kills the process, but does not fix
the problem.  If I killed the process (4277),
then tried to read a FF PDF document again,
process 4277 reappears as defunct.

It turns out that Firefox was gnome session
saved when rebooted and on start up restored
10 FF minimized windows and I did not notice
this until now. The problem is, the restore of the
10 FF sessions were munged.

So I cleared/killed all the FF gnome session saves
and rebooted. Everything is now back to normal.

Thanks for leading me towards the problem.
Dan