Re: defunct processes in 2.23?

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org> wrote:
>> Ajoh,
>>
>> I'm still experiencing some processes dying upon startup and being left
>> as defunct:
>>
>> claudio dijkstra:~$ ps ax | grep defun
>>  6688 tty1     Z      0:00 [gnome-session-s] <defunct>
>>  6701 tty1     Z      0:00 [gnome-power-man] <defunct>
>>  6702 tty1     Z      0:00 [gnome-volume-ma] <defunct>
>>  6703 tty1     Z      0:00 [nm-applet] <defunct>
>>  6708 tty1     Z      0:00 [gnome-user-shar] <defunct>
>>  6709 tty1     Z      0:00 [bluetooth-apple] <defunct>
>> 13583 pts/1    R+     0:00 grep defun
>>
>> Any hint on what to do, who to poke, or which bug report to subscribe me
>> to?
>
> Same here since 2.23.1 but since 2.23.3 or .4 they at least go away
> once you logout ;)
>
> --

I also had this when rebuilding building GNOME from source. It now
works again :-)

What happened was the following. GVFS was somehow compiled with
HAVE_HAL_FAST_INIT equals 1. This meant that
libhal_get_all_devices_with_properties was available. However jhbuild
installls hal 0.5.10 and libhal_get_all_devices_with_properties is
only available in 0.5.11. My ~/.xsession-errors contained an error of
gnome-panel which made a call where
libhal_get_all_devices_with_properties was not found.

Upgrading to hal 0.5.11 fixed everything for me

Jaap