[CentOS] C-6, Gnome question

On Sun, 2015-01-11 at 17:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 05:12:48PM -0500, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 19:42 -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> > <snip>

> > In a nutshell, after I would terminate Firefox as part of my normal log
> > off process, there would be another instance of Firefox left hanging
> > around with a ppid of 1 (so it's daemonized", or as I prefer
> > "demonized" ;-)) and using all the CPU it could get (97%-99% of a 6 core
> > AMD in my desktop) while no Firefox windows were open. Figuring it might
> > be saving stuff I checked back many minutes later on many days and
> > cycles and it was always there. Moreover, when normally using Firefox
> > I'd seen 103%, 104% CPU usage etc.
> 
> I commonly also find a "stray" firefox running after stopping firefox,
> and it isn't using a window either. it's a nuisance because, when there's
> a firefox update and it wants to restart the browser, it can't because
> there's that darn "stray" one hanging around.
> 
> like you, I have no idea where it comes from or why it's there, nor what
> it's doing, either.
> 
> > 
> > I commented out the entries that start it in Xclients and made a patch.
> > If I see no ill effects I'll leave it in place, otherwise back to
> > digging as to why it's there.
> 
> please let me know how it goes, I may want to investigate doing the same.

After my first restart of X, things are working well but I did see an
abrt of a gnome pkg-something manager. No other ill results thus far. I
ignored the abort because, based on the results of my bug filing on the
X window crash (when moving between run levels 3 and 5) so far, there's
no benefit to investigating and reporting it.

The patch is small so I'll attach it in case anyone else wants to give
it a go right now.

> <snip>

Bill
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# Commented out firefox entry in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
# This eliminates a "background" instance of firefox, with a ppid of 1, that
#   consummed a lot of cpu time and would persist after exit from the normal
#   firfox.
# Following makes patch suitable output
# RAN THIS cp -a /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.H0
# RAN THIS diff -u /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.H0 /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients 
# PRODUCED FOLLOWING
--- /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.H0	2013-11-22 06:15:33.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients	2015-01-11 16:13:53.521960405 -0500
@@ -62,9 +62,10 @@
     if [ -x /usr/bin/xterm ] ; then
         /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
     fi
-    if [ -x /usr/bin/firefox -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then
-	/usr/bin/firefox /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
-    fi
+# Commented out firefox stuff.
+#    if [ -x /usr/bin/firefox -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then
+#	/usr/bin/firefox /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
+#    fi
     if [ -x /usr/bin/twm ] ; then
 	exec /usr/bin/twm
     fi