I always get zombie netstat process at my gentoo 2006.0 box when running firefox(1.0.7) pstree output: │ └─fluxbox─┬─mozilla-launche───firefox-bin─┬─netstat │ │ └─2*[{firefox-bin}] ps -elfH (part) 0 S ldy 6453 5964 0 80 0 - 884 wait 09:42 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher 0 S ldy 6462 6453 0 75 0 - 39857 stext 09:42 ? 00:00:09 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin 0 Z ldy 6488 6462 0 78 0 - 0 exit 09:50 ? 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct>
post ps -elfH output again. [10:25:02][ldy:~] $ ps -elfH F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD 4 S root 1 0 0 76 0 - 369 - 09:39 ? 00:00:00 init [3] 1 S root 2 1 0 94 19 - 0 ksofti 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0] 1 S root 3 1 0 70 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [events/0] 1 S root 4 1 0 70 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [khelper] 1 S root 5 1 0 71 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kthread] 1 S root 7 5 0 70 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kblockd/0] 1 S root 8 5 0 75 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid] 1 S root 107 5 0 70 -5 - 0 hub_th 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [khubd] 1 S root 150 5 0 80 0 - 0 pdflus 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush] 1 S root 151 5 0 75 0 - 0 pdflus 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush] 1 S root 153 5 0 78 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [aio/0] 1 S root 738 5 0 70 -5 - 0 serio_ 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kseriod] 1 S root 783 5 0 71 -5 - 0 worker 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [ata/0] 1 S root 816 5 0 71 -5 - 0 scsi_e 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0] 1 S root 817 5 0 70 -5 - 0 - 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [usb-storage] 1 S root 152 1 0 85 0 - 0 kswapd 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd0] 1 S root 786 1 0 76 0 - 0 - 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [khpsbpkt] 1 S root 827 1 0 75 0 - 0 kjourn 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] 5 S root 938 1 0 74 -4 - 428 - 09:39 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/udevd --daemon 1 S root 4915 1 0 79 0 - 0 kjourn 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] 1 S root 4916 1 0 75 0 - 0 kjourn 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] 1 S root 4917 1 0 79 0 - 0 kjourn 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] 1 S root 4918 1 0 75 0 - 0 kjourn 09:39 ? 00:00:00 [kjournald] 5 S root 5729 1 0 75 0 - 424 - 09:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng 4 S root 5932 1 0 77 0 - 538 wait 09:39 ? 00:00:00 login -- ldy 4 S ldy 5944 5932 0 76 0 - 902 322503 09:39 tty1 00:00:00 -bash 0 S root 5933 1 0 76 0 - 369 322503 09:39 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux 0 S ldy 5948 1 0 76 0 - 786 wait 09:39 tty1 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx 0 S ldy 5959 5948 0 77 0 - 543 wait 09:39 tty1 00:00:00 xinit /home/ldy/.xinitrc -- -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 4 S root 5960 5959 1 75 0 - 18751 - 09:39 ? 00:00:43 X :0 -nolisten tcp -br -deferglyphs 16 0 S ldy 5964 5959 0 75 0 - 4859 - 09:39 tty1 00:00:00 fluxbox -log /home/ldy/.fluxbox/log 0 S ldy 6395 5964 0 75 0 - 26870 - 09:41 ? 00:00:06 /opt/opera/lib/opera/8.52-20060201.5/opera -style Plastik 0 S ldy 6439 6395 0 75 0 - 592 pipe_w 09:41 ? 00:00:00 /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/operaplugincleaner 6395 0 S ldy 6444 6395 0 75 0 - 2383 - 09:41 ? 00:00:00 /opt/opera/lib/opera/plugins/operamotifwrapper-3 38 42 /home/ldy/.mozilla/plugins/libfl 0 S ldy 6453 5964 0 80 0 - 884 wait 09:42 ? 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher 0 S ldy 6462 6453 0 75 0 - 39857 stext 09:42 ? 00:00:09 /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin 0 Z ldy 6488 6462 0 78 0 - 0 exit 09:50 ? 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct> 0 S ldy 6476 5964 0 76 0 - 1460 - 09:43 ? 00:00:00 putty 0 S ldy 6481 5964 0 76 0 - 1486 - 09:45 ? 00:00:00 putty 0 S ldy 6520 5964 0 75 0 - 15823 - 10:13 ? 00:00:01 xchat-2
This is an nss bug, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51429 . Has been open upstream for about six years. :-)
Marking UPSTREAM; definitely not something we would fix.
