Re: gnome daemons left running at logout



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
> 
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