On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:03 -0400, James Bardin wrote: > Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > > Hello > > > > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:12 -0400, James Bardin wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> We recently started using CentOS 5 (RHEL5), with gnome 2.16 in our labs. > >> > >> I've noticed that sometimes after logout; gnome-vfs-daemon, > >> gnome-volume-manager, gnome-power-manager, and gconfd may continue > >> running under the last user's uid. The next login gets new daemons (even > >> if it's the same user), and these processes start to build up. > >> Basically, if they don't die soon after logout, they never die. > >> > >> I can write a cron job to clean these out, but is there some > >> mis-configuration causing this? > >> > > Strange. I have not seen this issue. > > > > > > What is the state of this process - zombie ? > > > > I was hoping someone would say "Oh, that's caused by _______", but you > know that never really happens :) > > I think they all show up sleeping, but of course I haven't been able to > replicate it today. > I also caught bonobo-activation-server doing this, and I did confirm > that it was in state sleeping. > I just discovered that gdm wasn't registering with utmp, so users > weren't shown as logged in. Don't know if it's related, but I'll see if > it still happens when some students get here. This is a known bug. Should be fixed by/before CentOS5.2 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347871 > > > I'll try to collect more info. > > > Are there any funny messages in /var/log/{messages,audit,secure} ? > > > > > Nope, don't see anything fishy in the logs either. > > Thanks, > -jim > -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ Desktop LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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