Re: gnome daemons left running at logout



Hello

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 10:12 -0400, James Bardin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We recently started using CentOS 5 (RHEL5), with gnome 2.16 in our labs.
> 
> I've noticed that sometimes after logout; gnome-vfs-daemon, 
> gnome-volume-manager, gnome-power-manager, and gconfd may continue 
> running under the last user's uid. The next login gets new daemons (even 
> if it's the same user), and these processes start to build up. 
> Basically, if they don't die soon after logout, they never die.
> 
> I can write a cron job to clean these out, but is there some 
> mis-configuration causing this?
Strange. I have not seen this issue.


What is the state of this process - zombie ?

Would it be possible to run an strace on these processes just before
logout, to help us checkout why these process do not die ?

 strace -ffvvvt -o /tmp/trace -s 2048 -p pid


Are there any funny messages in /var/log/{messages,audit,secure} ?


> 
> Thanks
> -jim
> 
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