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- Dictionarydefunct/dɪˈfʌŋ(k)t/
adjective
- 1. no longer existing or functioning: "the now defunct Somerset & Dorset railway line" Similar Opposite
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Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process exits. You can't kill it because it is already dead. The only thing left is an entry in the process table:
191. Zombies are DEAD processes. They can not be 'kill' (You cannot kill the DEAD). All processes eventually die, and when they do they become zombies. They consume almost no resources, which is to be expected because they are dead! The reason for zombies is so the zombie's parent (process) can retrieve the zombie's exit status and resource ...
This is what it was supposed to do: Basically it runs the Rails daemons process. I wanted to restart it so I tried to kill it but it refused to die, and now I have a defunct process. Here is its parent process: The parent process is 11957. The proc cmdline looks like this: /proc/11957 $ cat cmdline.
Jun 29, 2018 · this converts it to a transient domain, without stopping it. If the domain is inactive, the domain configuration is removed. This indicates that destroy is a way to shutdown a domain quite ungracefully, while undefine just converts it to a transient one or removes its configuration. Share. answered Jun 29, 2018 at 7:05.
Aug 28, 2022 · I have an issue with selenium webdrivers (both Firefox and Chrome) running on Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. There is an 24/7 webpage monitoring Python script running on the server described higher and this script uses webdriver. After some time (I haven't found any regularities) the system transforms the webdriver related processes into defunct ones ...
Jun 21, 2012 · How to get a parent PID (PPID) from a child's process ID (PID) using the command-line. Use ps -o ppid=. e.g. ps -o ppid= 2072 returns 2061, which you can easily use in a script etc. ps -o ppid= -C foo gives the PPID of process with command foo.
Oct 25, 2013 · 450. man ps has all the answers, under the "PROCESS STATE CODES" heading: PROCESS STATE CODES. Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of a process: D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO) I Idle kernel thread. R running or runnable (on run queue) S ...
Mar 3, 2014 · If the shell process ( bash) calls exec () to run grep, the shell process will be replaced with grep. Grep will work fine but after execution, the control cannot return to the shell because bash process is already replaced. For this reason, bash calls fork (), which does not replace the current process. Share.
May 25, 2017 · I upgraded to 17.04, and am having an issue where Xorg crashes if I leave the computer idle overnight--the display won't wake up to the lock screen, and I have no idea if my keyboard is being read. A logger script I wrote reports: PID USER COMMAND. 1341 root [Xorg] <defunct>. I'm trying to work around this, and have two questions:
Jun 25, 2016 · On a different note, to kill the parent process of any process (including Zombie), you can easily use a combination of commands ps and kill: ps -p <pid> -o ppid=. will give use the PPID (Parent Process ID) of the process having PID (Process ID) <pid>. So for example, to find the PPID of process having PID 2345:
