Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #228063
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 228063

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 228063] Re: 2 firefox zombie processes after startup

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 02:20:30PM -0000, Colby wrote:
> I'm getting lots of zombie processes, not just firefox. I just booted a
> hour ago, and have over 200 zombie "man" processes. Every pidgin process
> I end/kill ends up zombie instead.
>
> I have a handful of other programs that have several processes in the
> zombie state: tbl, col, firefox, anacron, zsoelim, udevd - for a few
> examples.
>

 tag needs-reassignment

You appear to have a different issue. Are you sure your system is
up-to-date? maybe you are stuck in the middle of some upgrade?

Have you checked your system (memory, harddisk) for hardware issues?
do you see something wierd in /var/log/syslog?

 - Alexander