From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: whenever i view a pdf file everything seems to work fine... the file gets loaded just fine...however whenever i leave/part from viewing such page, say load up a new url in the browser 'ps aux' reports defunct/zombie process from plugger 'etroja 31445 0.0 0.6 4512 832 pts/3 S 12:19 0:00 /bin/bash etroja 31606 6.2 18.2 98424 23028 ? S 12:26 0:38 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/mozilla-bin -UILocale en-US etroja 31630 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 12:26 0:01 [plugger <defunct>] etroja 31661 0.0 0.6 2820 844 pts/3 R 12:36 0:00 ps aux ' this system is an upgrade from rhl 8.0-->9.0 i've deleted .mozilla dir and let it create a new one but problem still persists my pluggerc file is as follows 'application/pdf: pdf: PDF file application/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file text/pdf: pdf: PDF file text/x-pdf: pdf: PDF file repeat swallow(documentShell) fill: acroread -geometry +9000+9000 -xrm '+useFrontEndProgram' "$file" repeat swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file" repeat swallow(gv) fill: gv -safer -quiet -antialias -geometry +9000+9000 "$file" 2>/dev/null ' i have acroread downloaded in /opt/Acroread5 and a symbolic link from /usr/bin/acroread--> /opt/Acroread5/bin/acroread i tried to remove acroread (both the program and the pluggerc enty) and just let the xpdf take care of pdf files but no luck Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): plugger version is plugger-4.0-23 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.simply open a pdf file 2.part from reading it...either by opening another url on the same tab, or simply closing the nav tab 3.voila a new zombie created Additional info:
see bug #90322 for further comments...installed mozplugger and removed plugger and now most of the stuff seems to be holding on...no more annoying zombies
i will replace plugger in next release
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Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.