Extra users!
SK
sharonm63 at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Sep 9 17:13:02 UTC 2004
Clint Harshaw wrote:
> 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
>
Clint.
Following up on this and I've now got 7 extra users, and they're all me! I
did what you suggested and the result is here;-
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[root at gads root]# ps ef
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
5161 pts/83 S 0:00 /bin/bash SSH_AGENT_PID=4785
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmc
5185 pts/83 R 0:00 \_ ps ef KDE_MULTIHEAD=false SSH_AGENT_PID=4785
HOST
3156 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
3155 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
3141 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
3110 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
3079 tty2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
3078 tty1 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1 SELINUX_INIT=YES
PATH=/usr/local
[root at gads root]#
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[please make alowances for text wrapping!]
'top' shows one zombie process which is [from 'ps aux']
----------------
boztu 9334 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:51 0:00 [netstat]
<defunc
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and then i did the following ;-
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gads:~$ kill pid 9334
bash: kill: pid: no such pid
gads:~$ users
boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu boztu
gads:~$ finger boztu
Login: boztu Name: (null)
Directory: /home/boztu Shell: /bin/bash
On since Thu Sep 9 16:47 (BST) on pts/82 10 minutes 46 seconds idle
On since Thu Sep 9 16:52 (BST) on pts/83 5 minutes 13 seconds idle
(messages off)
On since Thu Sep 9 16:54 (BST) on pts/85 3 minutes 47 seconds idle
(messages off)
On since Thu Sep 9 16:54 (BST) on pts/86 (messages off)
No mail.
No Plan.
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and as I closed every bash down, it all dropped down to '7 users' again!
Odd!
Anyone got any ideas how to solve it without rebooting please?
Sharon.
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