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linux 8.4.2001040304: panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z. Maze)
Thu Apr 12 18:49:27 2001
To: testers@mit.edu
From: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 2001 18:49:20 -0400
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System name: cutter-john.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.2001040304 (with mkserv)
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/sh (/afs/sipb/project/sipb/bin/zsh?)
Window manager: ssh-agent fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
Log in on a bleeding-edge machine.
What's wrong:
My xload showed the load average hovering around 2.
Examination with 'ps -el' revealed:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
000 R 4945 4359 24703 0 78 0 - 2013 - ? 00:00:00 panel
000 R 3115 4360 30622 0 78 0 - 2013 - ? 00:00:00 panel
Poking around with 'ps -ef' failed to reveal those processes.
Looking again with 'ps -el':
000 R 4945 13342 24703 0 78 0 - 2013 - ? 00:00:00 panel
000 R 3115 13343 30622 0 78 0 - 2013 - ? 00:00:00 panel
And again:
000 R 4945 13699 24703 0 76 0 - 147376328 - ? 00:00:00 panel
000 R 3115 13700 30622 0 77 0 - 2024 - ? 00:00:00 panel
The parent processes are constant. Looking at those with 'ps
-ef':
jmorzins 24702 1 0 Apr10 ? 00:00:00 [xsession]
jmorzins 24703 24702 0 Apr10 ? 00:15:05 panel-wrapper
lnemzer 30620 1 0 Apr11 ? 00:00:00 tcsh -f /usr/athena/lib/init/xse
lnemzer 30622 30620 0 Apr11 ? 00:03:32 panel-wrapper
lnemzer 30626 1 0 Apr11 ? 00:00:00 esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -s
It looks like panel-wrapper is continuously attempting to
respawn panel processes. These are failing to start (possibly
because of display issues). Incidentally, it looks like
there's a leftover esd process as well which should get
cleaned up.
What should have happened:
There shouldn't be any processes left running by a user on a
workstation after they log out.
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