Bug#150631: #150631: apps spawning huge numbers of zombies and hanging: happens to non-glib apps too

[Chris Boyle]

A little help please, if you have a moment:

This bug (gradually spawning over 1000 zombies and then hanging) has
been open for quite a while now is happening to iRATE as well, which I
just downloaded from http://irate.sf.net/ , even the clients that don't
touch glib/gtk at all, thus I no longer think it's glib's fault.
Currently the problem happens to iRATE, xmms, gkrellmd, and sometimes
gkrellm. It's also happened sometimes on a different machine with
pppoa3, part of the user-mode speedtouch ADSL drivers from
http://speedtouch.sf.net/ (version 1.2-beta1).

I'm guessing there's *something* in common here, and based on my limited
understanding of this, it might be one of three things: libc6 (2.3.2 and
2.2.5), the kernel (2.4.23 and 2.4.22) or my hardware (on two separate
machines). I don't like any of those possibilities. Any ideas or
thoughts of any kind? Anyone? :-/

Apart from anything else, where do I reassign this to? I'm thinking
libc6, being the "smallest" thing all these have in common, but that's a
bit of a guess on my part.


||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libc6          2.3.2.ds1-10   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  kernel-image-2 atlas.2        Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.22
ii  xmms           1.2.8-2        Versatile X audio player that looks like Win
ii  gkrellm        2.1.21-4       Multiple stacked system monitors: 1 process
ii  gkrellmd       2.1.21-4       Multiple stacked system monitors: 1 process

Locally installed software:

Blackdown Java-Linux Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.4.1-beta
(Based on Sun's Version 1.4.1-pre-rc-b17)

iRATE unstable Swing client Dec 11 2003 (irate.sf.net)

Other machine:

||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libc6          2.2.5-11.5     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  kernel-image-2 plonker.1      Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.23

Speedtouch 1.2-beta1 (speedtouch.sf.net)

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