[gutsy] thunar produces lots of zombies

[Martin Schmitz]

Binary package hint: thunar

If I start an application by dubbleclicking an icon in thunar, after closing this application it leaves a zombie process. The parent process of this zombie is always 'Thunar --daemon' or - after restarting thunar - just 'thunar'. Sending 'kill -CHLD <PID-of-thunar>' does not help. After restarting thunar all the zombies are gone - as expected. I experience this mostly with gnome applications but sometimes with others too. This behaviour always shows up with totem and eog, often with file-roller and sometimes with others.

[Martin Schmitz (zangpo)]

As I see know, the problem seems to be known to xfce-/thunar-developers. There is an entry in xfce's bug tracking system:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2983

While I can't find anything in the latest official thunar changelog, Mandriva seems to have fixed this:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandriva/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/contrib/release/thunar-0.8.0-8mdv2008.0.x86_64.html (second entry in the changelog)

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. I'm marking this as triaged.

[Martin Schmitz (zangpo)]

The rpmfind.net link seems to change frequently, so here is the relavant changelog entry from the mandriva package:

* Wed Sep 05 2007 Tomasz Pawel Gajc <email address hidden> 0.8.0-7mdv2008.0
  + Revision: 79434
  - provide patch 0, which prevent zombie process
  - set configure options

Maybe the madriva package maintainer can help to figure out what's going wrong there.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Cody: please do not patch until upstream approves it. Thank you.

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

We don't generally operate like that. Is there any particular reason why you
request this?

On Nov 17, 2007 8:16 AM, Jérôme Guelfucci <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Cody: please do not patch until upstream approves it. Thank you.
>
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> [gutsy] thunar produces lots of zombies
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163106
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[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

This patch has only been applied by Mandriva and we still don't know if it's correct, but if Lionel and yourself are OK to apply it...

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Well, the patch would be applied and uploaded to Hardy so I'm sure it'll get
testing and what not. Plus, we'll of course pass it upstream for processing.
:) And since Mandravia has a healthy user base and I'm assuming decent dev
policies, I'm just we'll be able to follow through with this smoothly.

On Nov 17, 2007 10:39 AM, Jérôme Guelfucci <email address hidden>
wrote:

> This patch has only been applied by Mandriva and we still don't know if
> it's correct, but if Lionel and yourself are OK to apply it...
>
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> [gutsy] thunar produces lots of zombies
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163106
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Ok, I'm just not very fond of applying patches like that (it's a pain to triage bugs after that) .

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

A clean fix has been committed in upstream's svn.

[Cody A.W. Somerville (cody-somerville)]

Setting to confirmed for thunar (Ubuntu) since the fix was applied upstream and not on our source package. The upstream item should resolve to the correct status shortly.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Fixed in thunar 0.9.0-1ubuntu2.