[arch-general] Defunct processes left behind for screen and firefox

[David Houston]

I Wonder weather it is your screen augments. Try using just -r rather than -RR

Dave
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
<ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
>> <ciprian.craciun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    Hello all!
>>>
>>>    I'm having the following issue: after opening and closing some
>>> shells within the same screen session, I'm left with a bunch of
>>> defunct bash processes, that screen doesn't seem to wait for... Is
>>> there any issue with screen?
>>>
>>>    Or is there any issue in general, as Firefox plugin FireGPG seems
>>> to do the same with gpg. (Which it didn't on Debian.)
>>
>> I've never noticed this myself. Are you sure you're actually exiting
>> screen and not just detaching?
>
>    Bellow is the output of `ps axf`. The problem is that screen
> does't collect properly the defunct bash processes.
>
> 17030 ?        S      0:00 urxvt -title x-shell -e
> /home/ciprian/.bin/x-console -- screen -RR
> 17032 pts/1    Ss+    0:00  \_ screen -RR
> 17036 ?        Ss     0:00      \_ SCREEN -RR
> 17037 pts/2    Rs     0:00          \_ /bin/bash
> 17137 pts/2    R+     0:00          |   \_ ps axf
> 17044 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17046 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17048 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17050 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17051 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17054 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17055 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17057 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
> 17060 ?        Zs     0:00          \_ [bash] <defunct>
>