Re: [lcd4linux] Killing lcd4linux leaves it alive in the background

[Michael R. <re...@eu...>]

Ji!

> I decided to try to make a script to switch between my different display 
> layouts by first killing the running lcd4linux process using killall or 
> killall -HUP commands, then modifying the lcd4linux.conf for my second layout 
> and starting a new lcd4linux process. In principle it works, but then I 
> noticed that the killed lcd4linux processes were actually alive! Indeed, they 
> were ghosting in my system all the time... 

This is definitely a bug!

> 	I had a widget running my own script using the exec plugin. If I killed 
> lcd4linux processes my script file was still constantly being executed. Even 
> if I had no lcd4linux processes listed when I typed lcd4linux. Another thing 
> that tells me that the system is still running lcd4linux processes is that 
> when I kill and restart lcd4linux many times I end up having a very high CPU 
> usage in my system. I have found no other cure for that than rebooting the 
> system.

You should be able to kill this "lcd4linux zombies" (they are no real
zombies)

Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have a look at this.


bye, Michael

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