417049 - 'dummy' seamonkey process with no windows always respawns

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eyal Rozenberg]

A SEAMON~1.exe process, with the Seamonkey binary, is present in my task list, regardless of whether SM is running. If I kill it, it respawns as a child process of explorer.exe . It takes up about 3.4 MB of space and doesn't seem to take up processor time.

Its existence somehow prevents nightly updates from working, but that's just a side-issue.

The only way I can stop it from respawning is by killing it and immediately erasing the binary before it's loaded again.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Trunk I assume?

Comment 2

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Indeed. e.g. 2008-02-11 .

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Who starts(tries to load/loads) "SEAMON~1.exe" again after kill of "SEAMON~1.exe" process?

Get "Process Monitor" log.
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
Following filter may help you.
> Path "end with" SEAMON~1.exe => Include
> Path "end with" seamonkey.exe => Include

Comment 4

[Eyal Rozenberg]

It's explorer.exe , but with more recent trunk builds I can't reproduce the bug.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

WFM based on comment #4