[plug] GDM hanging, leaving zombies

[James Devenish]

In message <20031020083934.GG1491 at erdos.home>
on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:39:34PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:29:21PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> | BTW I am too busy to think more about Craig's problem since I last
> | posted. However, I was wondering: does anyone know a quick way of seeing
> | what sort of wait-state a process is in (i.e. select, poll, semphore,
> | sleep/nanosleep, pipe, etc.)?
> 
> If I understand you correctly: attaching ptrace or gdb to the process
> will tell you which system call is causing a process to sleep...

Okay, just wondering if there was a non-tracing way (sounds like you
need to ptrace in order to get either a stack dump or wait-state).
What about core dumps (as Craig asked)?


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