nanny processes remaing running when pulse stopped

Robin Bowes robin-lists at robinbowes.com
Fri Oct 30 18:09:17 UTC 2009


On 30/10/09 17:13, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 17:02 +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed that the nanny processes remaining running when the pulse
>> daemon is stopped/restarted. So, if you restart pulse a few times, you
>> end up with dozens of nanny processes.
>>
>> Surely this is not supposed to happen? Should pulse close all the nanny
>> processes when it shutdown?
> 
> It's supposed to shut them down.  I'd file a bugzilla.

Aha - known issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522230

I'm actually running pulse under runit, so I have added a finish script
which runs "pkill /usr/sbin/nanny" when the service is shutdown. Nice to
know I can remove that when this issue is fixed.

R.




More information about the Piranha-list mailing list