Re: gnome daemons left running at logout
- From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>
- To: "James Bardin" <jbardin bu edu>
- Cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: gnome daemons left running at logout
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:52:15 +0300
On 8/22/07, James Bardin <jbardin bu edu> 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.
I also have this issue with Fedora 7 (and any Fedora actually).
It's very annoying because the keyboard indicator applet displays
different labels after logging out.
--
Felipe Contreras
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