From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:53:02 +0000
Subject: Re: udev zombies
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On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:14:11PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mb@lfs:~> ps aux|grep udev
> root       345  0.0  0.0    80   56 ?        S<   08:16   0:00 udevd
> root      1604  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1605  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1606  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1607  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1608  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1609  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1610  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1611  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1612  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1613  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1614  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1632  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1633  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1634  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1635  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1636  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1637  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1638  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1639  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1640  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1641  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1642  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1643  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1644  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> root      1645  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z<   08:16   0:00 [udev] <defunct>
> 
> I expect all these zombies shouldn't be there 8-)

I would expect them not to be there too :)

Care to rebuild udev with 
	make USE_LOG=true DEBUG=true
and let us know what the syslog messages are for those dead udev
instances?

thanks,

greg k-h


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