Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 157731
netstat seems to be <defunct> for no reason
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:06 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050417 Fedora/1.7.7-1.3.1 Description of problem: Hi there on fedora core 3. I experience a problem concerning netstat. I see it as defunct when trying to take a look at my processes. I'm up2date with all updates from redhat. And currently i have running Ximian xmms a wine application and a mozilla browser. I have no idea what causes the defunct, but i'm seeing this problem since fedora core 1. And i guess the problem needs to be fixed. [hipo@davidian ~]$ ps axu | grep netstat hipo 8087 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 09:45 0:00 [netstat] <defunct> hipo 8257 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:25 0:00 [netstat] <defunct> hipo 8568 0.0 0.1 4676 660 pts/9 S+ 11:32 0:00 grep netstat [hipo@davidian ~]$ [hipo@davidian ~]$ uname -a; Linux davidian 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [hipo@davidian ~]$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. A regular default install 2. 3. Actual Results: netstat in the process list seeming as defunct with nothing really running netstat Additional info:
This is usually caused by mozilla. Please try to stop all mozilla processes and grep them again. If this doesn't help, try to figure out which process causes this disfunction.
Yes the <defunct> netstat is a subprocess spawned by mozilla. Anyway there is then a problem with mozilla or? I'm running mozilla under debian and slackware and i don't see <defunct> netstats there?. Is a <defunct> zoombie process something normal under linux? I don't think so ....
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101221 ***