Details
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Type:
Incident report
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Status: Closed
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: 1.8.2, 1.9.0 (alpha)
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Component/s: Server (S)
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Labels:None
Description
When zabbix_server is killed, it sometimes becomes forever defunct (zombie). The reason for this is that if a child process acquires a lock and then dies, the lock is not freed and the parent process cannot complete finalization steps which require that lock.