Arch Linux

Description:

(Copied from upstream bug tracker bug report): “Since upgrading to glib 2.36.0 […] any program launched from the openbox menu becomes a zombie when it exits. All the zombie processes go away on exiting openbox. […]”

The user over there also committed a quick’n’dirty patch removing one single option in one single line of the code causing Openbox to work without that zombie producing bug.

Because it’s not likely that upstream will release a fixed version very soon but this “zombie generrator” causing some serious trouble like either running out of process IDs (uynlikely) or reaching max process limit defined in /etc/security/limits.conf (just happened to me this morning) and thus causing an unusable system, it would be great to implement said patch (see link below for details) until upstream fixes that bug by themselvs.


Additional info:

* confirmed by upstream including a quick and dirty fix
* See https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5921


Steps to reproduce:

1. Install, set up, and run Openbox
2. Open any application via openbox function like the menu or a shortcut
3. close the application
4. check the zombies via top or htop