Re: zombie processes

On 2005-03-01, Matthew Dillon <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>:>     being reaped.  I couldn't find anything in the logs to suggest why
>:>     the process died, but it isn't there so it must have.
>:>
>:>     Could you investigate further?  Is init or /etc/ttys set up to do
>:>     something or access something that might be causing it to die?  It
>:>     sounds like whatever is causing it to blow up is occuring early on.
>:>
>:> 					-Matt
>:> 					Matthew Dillon 
>:> 					<[e-mail]>
>:
>:Checked /etc/ttys and nothing weird there. How to check what init is set up to
>:do?
>
>     Check that init is even running after booting.  If it is, start a 
>     ktrace -p 1 	(make sure on a filesystem with lots of space).  
>     When you start getting zomibes check init again, it should be dead,
>     and scp the ktrace file to leaf.
>
>     If init is not running then something during booting is blowing it up.
>     Another possibility is that your world and libraries have somehow gotten
>     corrupted and init is having a problem related to that, but I can't
>     imagine the system getting to a login prompt without init so I expect
>     init is running initially.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<[e-mail]>

doing a "ps aux" I can see:
root      1  0,0  0,0   556   72  ??  DLs  Sob01am   0:00,38 /sbin/init --

so init is running? 96 zombies currently