Re: [LUG] Star Office choked and won't restart

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Friday 03 May 2002 17:22, you wrote:
> > Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > > I asked it to open a .pps file, it hung 9/10 of the way through opening
> > > it and I killed it.
> >
> > Which version of StarOffice? OpenOffice 1.0 might do a better job of
> > handling the file.
>
> 5.2

5.2 sometimes does appear to have problems with creating difficult
to destroy processes.

> I tried a recent beta of Open Office and it didn't run on my system, so I 
> will try the release 1.0 but I havn't got it yet.
>
>
> > IIRC StarOffice puts a lock file somewhere in the directory it creates
> > in the home directory.
>
> > What is the Parent Process ID (PPID), if it isn't the init process
> > you will probably need to kill the parent process. Unix systems can
> > have so called "zombie" processes, which are waiting to report their
> > exit status to their parent.
>
> Should that prevent a further instance of the program running though?
>
> 2 zombies at present.
>
> akm@xxxxxxx:~ > ps -aux|grep office
> akm        838  0.3  1.1 209080 2864 ?       S    Apr28  28:28  
> /opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
> akm        875  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr28   0:03 [soffice.bin 
> <defunct>]
> akm      11230  0.0 10.2 50592 26032 pts/4   T    16:41   0:00 
> /opt/office52/program/soffice.bin

The command "ps jax" will display the PPID and the process group ID.
(But for some reason it dosn't like the u option.)

Process 838 is sleeping, process 875 is zombie. At a guess process
838 is the grandparent of 875, killing process 838 should do something

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