Extra users!

[Clint Harshaw]

Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I'm using Fedora Core 2 with kde 3.3.0-1.0.2.kde and my gkrellm process 
> monitor is showing four users, except that this is a stand-alone and not 
> connected to any network [except the internet], and I'm the only user.
> 
> So how do I find out what these other processes are, and then how do I kill 
> them please?
> 
> Sharon.

Sharon:

I have experienced the same symptoms you describe, although I don't see 
it as often now. IIRC when I logged out as my local user, and logged in 
as root, I would regularly see two processes related to bonobo showing 
up. I wasn't able to kill them without rebooting -- which was annoying, 
as was the alternative: trying to put up with an incorrect number of 
users on my GKrellm monitor! There was an update related to bonobo about 
a week or so ago that seemed to have helped the situation.

Try logging out as your user, and log back in as root. Do a ps -ef and 
see what processes are showing up as the logged out user.

See if my postings related to what I describe are what you are seeing 
yourself. There may be some bug happening that we should put in 
bugzilla. I never saw this happening in FC1.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=108359807117526&w=2

and this post asking if the cause may be related to X'ing out of the 
terminal rather than 'exiting' out of the terminal:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109088693016156&w=2

and another user experiencing similar symptoms:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109283002128882&w=2

Clint