How to kill a defunct process

guarriman · 04-19-2005, 05:48 AM

Hi.

I've got a defunct process:
username 2466 1 0 09:37 ? 00:00:24 [gedit] <defunct>

I tried:
# kill -9 2466
# kill -s SIGKILL 2466

But I'm not able to kill it and not able to start a new 'gedit' window. I also tried to find its father by using 'pstree', but it doesn't have.

Any suggestion? Thank you.

Gabriel_Black · 04-19-2005, 06:09 AM

have you also tried to kill the process as root?

rossbob · 04-19-2005, 07:07 AM

or if you can see the window then xkill

guarriman · 05-13-2005, 08:47 AM

I'm root and I don't have any window

[root@pc]# ps -ef | grep gedit
user 2432 1 0 09:50 ? 00:00:44 [gedit] <defunct>
root 6614 3916 0 14:43 pts/0 00:00:00 grep gedit
[root@pc]# kill -9 2432
[root@pc]# ps -ef | grep gedit
user 2432 1 0 09:50 ? 00:00:44 [gedit] <defunct>
root 6616 3916 0 14:44 pts/0 00:00:00 grep gedit

skhalid · 05-15-2009, 12:09 PM

guarriman,

Simple, "You can not kill defucnt process that is already DEAD"

There're two ways to remove defunct process 1) reboot your box 2) kill the PPID(Parent process ID).

Hope this helps.

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