[plug] Killing resident zombies and other undesirables

[Bill Kenworthy]

Hi, I am currently having some problems with staroffice.  The following
shows related processes running.  All attempts at kill -9, killall,
logging out, using kill as root, going back and forward to init 3 & 5
(had a display crash some days ago and this is the only way it would
startup X again!)  I cannot restart staroffice whilst these processes
are hanging around.  One proc shows as April 6th, but have had a couple
of normal shutdown/restarts for startoffice (including this morning) up
until this mornings display crash (kde 2.1 on Mandrake 7.2, normally
quite stable)


wdk at Ralph ~ $ ps auwx|grep soffice
wdk      25569  0.0  0.0 49876    0 ?        DW   Apr06   0:00
[soffice.bin]
wdk        365  1.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   1:25
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk        387  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    07:03   0:00
[soffice.bin <defunct>]
wdk        388  0.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk        389  0.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk        390  0.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk        391  0.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk        393  0.0 17.3 99156 32648 ?       D    07:03   0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
wdk       4193  0.0  0.2  1312  524 pts/4    S    09:20   0:00 grep
soffice
wdk at Ralph ~ $

Also, top shows:
  9:24am  up 23 days, 19:00,  2 users,  load average: 11.10, 11.23, 9.89
138 processes: 133 sleeping, 2 running, 3 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  1.3% user,  0.2% system,  0.2% nice,  2.0% idle
Mem:   188000K av,  185156K used,    2844K free,       0K shrd,    2120K
buff
Swap:  240932K av,   20800K used,  220132K free                   68920K
cached

which may be related to doing init 3 & 5 (seemed to increment the load
average last time I did this.  No process shows up as hogging things as
reflected in the cpu states line.

Any ideas?

BillK