When running ps -aux, I get the command (crashdump) running for root user multiple times. Does anyone know what this is? Some of the (crashdump) commands have interesting start dates... as in 31Dec69.
Here's some of what I see:
root 16202 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26045 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26046 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26047 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26052 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26131 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 26143 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
root 16196 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00 (crashdump)
Second thing- iTunes froze on me, and I couldn't get it to "force quit". So I went to the command line and ran kill -9 with iTunes proc. ID. The window closed immediately, but now, iTunes is still in the dock (and when cmd-clicked it says "Application not responding" at the top of the contextual menu"), and will not open from the finder (error code -600). ps now shows a process called (iTunes) belonging to my user. calling kill -9 on this process has no effect.
Also, X11 stopped working, and when I quit it, it wouldn't relaunch. After 5 days of uptime, I think I should restart...
I appreciate any insight...
-Joe
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