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I have 13 times zenity with status Zombie in my system-monitor. Could there be any virus or what else could it be?

I have read this: What are zombie processes? but I can't do anything with it regarding zenity
which is just a helper tool for programmers as far I understood and I never used that programm.

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  • zenity is a preinstalled package, its description says "Display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts", I don't think it is a virus. can you kill it from a terminal? Look in the system monitor for the ID number and then run kill ID-number-here, you may need sudo to kill it and that is why system monitor won't do it. – Mark Kirby Apr 21 '16 at 10:20
  • I did so but gat only 'Argument konnte nicht analysiert werden:' (I have a german system) it is like: argument could not be analized: ID 4721 – Asklep Apr 21 '16 at 10:33
  • Try to find the parent process for zenity from this http://superuser.com/questions/137462/how-do-you-find-the-parent-process-of-a-zombie-process and, if it is not a required one, kill that. – Mark Kirby Apr 21 '16 at 10:41

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Thank you Mark, the answer in your linked helped me to get rid of it.

ps l gave only two lines but pstree -p $USER spit out a long tree list and I could find the parent was marco (a part of d.conf in Ubuntu Mate): I had created some shortcuts in d.fonf editor.

I had terminated marco in system-monitor and all zenity's were gone. Stupidly I did this while the terminal still was running and all the windows were messed up, so I had to reboot. But now all is fine and I learned something new again :)

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