Re: runaway process

[Wade Curry <wcurry cts com>]

I get runaway processes often if I don't close down my Gnome apps when I
log out of the session.   I have the .30 release from slink too, but the
upgrade (to .30) didn't really address the problem.



Acheron wrote:

> >From what I've read from the list, I'm not sure this is the correct
> place to ask questions like this, but I can't find any other place for
> it. I've searched the archive and dejanews and metacrawler, but can't
> find a reference to this problem.
>
> I'm running the the GNOME packages in the current Debian slink distro
> with Windowmaker and xdm. When I log out, then log back in again, I end
> up with a process running like this, using more or less 100% of cpu
> resources (I wrapped it, but it's all one line from ps -ax):
>
> 270  ?  R  639:29 panel --discard-session
> 11d15b660a00009074838450000012994000
>
> As you can see, this process was running in excess of 10 hours, and I
> still had to just kill it when I reentered x. What might be wrong?
> Anyone have a workaround?
>
> -Jonathan
>
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