Hi All,
Not actual graphically rendered zombies, but ... Running a recent snapshot: 7.9 GENERIC.MP#419 amd64 + xscreensaver-6.15 I noticed several messages of the form: xscreensaver-gfx: 11:58:55: WARNING: pid 43674 (elementalring) sent SIGTERM 176 seconds ago and did not die! xscreensaver-gfx: 14:14:50: WARNING: pid 73221 (logarithmiccircles) sent SIGTERM 177 seconds ago and did not die! And indeed "ps alxwww | grep screen" shows me: 10000 36352 42469 4 28 0 188 956 - R+p/2 p6 0:00.00 grep screen 10000 49304 59454 0 2 0 1860 3620 kqread S p7 0:06.43 xscreensaver 10000 80351 1 0 10 10 11568 3616 fsleep IN p7 0:00.00 xscreensaver-gfx -init 10000 83293 1 0 10 10 12080 3632 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 12801 1 0 10 10 12080 3716 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 92272 1 0 10 10 12080 3692 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 25956 1 0 10 10 11660 3676 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 41118 1 0 10 10 11560 3624 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 85847 1 0 10 10 10684 3600 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 15769 1 0 10 10 10684 3704 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 49351 1 0 10 10 11544 3608 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 82022 1 0 10 10 11564 3692 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 90167 1 0 10 10 11564 3676 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 51776 1 0 10 10 12096 3700 fsleep IN p7 0:00.00 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 42515 1 0 10 10 11556 3700 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 43674 1 0 10 10 12084 3720 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx 10000 73221 1 0 10 10 11008 3656 fsleep IN p7 0:00.01 xscreensaver-gfx Also, a couple of other xscreensaver issues I noticed while poking about ... It's not only hard to kill, it's hard to start too. At least I haven't managed to get XFCE to automatically start it so far. I think xscreensaver may also be causing a lot of these messages in .xsession-errors: Fontconfig warning: using without calling FcInit() Some of the actual screensaver programs are "wrapped" in bash scripts. But it looks as if the bash path is wrong e.g. head -1 /usr/local/libexec/xscreensaver/alienbeacon #!/bin/bash I only have "/usr/local/bin/bash" in /etc/shells. Cheers, Robb.
