firefox randomly spawning mplayer
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Dec 6 16:16:15 UTC 2007
On Thursday 06 December 2007, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just installed the Firefox update on a Fedora 7 box
>(firefox-2.0.0.10-2). While using top, I noticed I had 76 zombie
>processes. A little more digging revealed they were all mplayer
>related. On a hunch, I closed firefox, and viola, all the zombie
>mplayer processes disappeared.
>
>After the update, wen I start firefox, I get a new mplayer spawning
>every 30 seconds or so, which then immediately dies. But, I can see it
>as a Zombie in the process tree.
>
>What the hell is going on? Has anyone else noticed this?
>
>Regards,
>
>Ranbir
>
Humm, FC6, FireFox-2.0.0.11 (from mozilla.org, not fedora, they auto-update on
release so I'm a day or so ahead of fedora.)
FF has been up half an hour, no mplayer zombies here. I do get an occasional
FF upchuck though.
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