Hi and happy NY to everyone reading this...

Recently I made a clean install of Fedora 10 (from Live CD) on an Intel PIII machine (733MHz, 384 MB RAM, Nvidia Vanta AGP) and noticed that right on startup there appears a zombie Xsession process: Xsession <defunct>, owned by me (not root). As far as I understand (at least, that is what I found in Google), this is a common problem when migrating from KDE to Gnome, or when bluetooth is running. But I tried to strip the OS as much as possible and still this zombie appears... Fedora 8 used to run on the same machine just fine. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
L.

Does graphical boot work correctly with all the eye candy?

boot options?

Well, with the nvidia vanta graphics it is not so appealing to have a nice graphical boot, so I disabled it in grub.conf:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=3
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.debug)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.debug ro root=UUID=24ce38e0-ea53-4751-a679-69bf8d54b886 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.debug.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=24ce38e0-ea53-4751-a679-69bf8d54b886 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=24ce38e0-ea53-4751-a679-69bf8d54b886 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
title MS Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

I.e., I have 3 kernels (the one for everyday use is 2.6.27.9-159) installed plus Win XP. The 3-color bar worked, but I disabledit (no rhgb) options.

This Xsession is a child process of gnome-session (pid 2408):

~/temp|>>>ps auxwwf | grep session
root 2365 0.0 0.7 6152 2900 ? S 10:27 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/gdm-session-worker
lisaev 2408 0.0 1.7 31620 6908 ? Ssl 10:27 0:00 \_ gnome-session
lisaev 2701 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:27 0:00 \_ [Xsession] <defunct>
lisaev 2739 0.0 0.8 15408 3308 ? S 10:27 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/gnome-session/helpers/gnome-keyring-daemon-wrapper
gdm 2257 0.0 0.1 3156 544 ? S 10:26 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
lisaev 2434 0.0 0.1 3156 548 ? S 10:27 0:00 dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
lisaev 2438 0.0 0.3 13260 1268 ? Ssl 10:27 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --session
lisaev 2986 0.0 0.1 4212 688 pts/1 S+ 10:36 0:00 \_ grep session

All packages are newest:
~/temp|>>>rpm -qa | grep gnome-session
gnome-session-2.24.2-1.fc10.i386
gnome-session-xsession-2.24.2-1.fc10.i386

I tried to degrade them to older ones, but the zombie did not go away...