

lock file in the ~/.config/libreoffice/ directory.

I have managed to get the application (or process ID) cleaned up and being able to start libreoffice again without the need for a reboot:įirst, I removed the. Still, the office icons were still on my desktop/taskbar. However, no files were in use by the zombie. and its PPID was 1 (because I had killed the calling application oosplash after LibreOffice wasn't responding anymore). I had a libreoffice application zombie hanging with and 'Z'. Has been reported to another process which is waiting for that process Zombie Process is just:Ī process that has terminated and that is deleted when its exit status If original parent hasn't reaped it before its own exit then init process ( pid = 1) does it at some later time. Zombie is eventually reaped by its parent (by calling wait(2)). There is no harm in letting such processes be unless there are many of them.

The parent process to read its child's exit status. On Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a zombie process orĭefunct process is a process that has completed execution but still The only thing left is an entry in the process table: You can't kill it because it is already dead. These processes will be destroyed by init(8) if the parent process That remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly. Processes marked are dead processes (so-called "zombies")
