[Users] Cannot stop or restart container

[Gregor at HostGIS]

Hey there. Thanks for the tip about vzps, Thorsten.

We are still in that situation I described a few days ago, with a 
container which won't stop (operation timed out). vzps shows this.

# vzps -E 84 ax
  VEID   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    84 32226 ?        Z      0:00 [init <defunct>]

Does this offer any clue to what went wrong, how to prevent it, and how 
possibly to undo it without rebooting the HN? I understand what 
zombies/defunct processes are, and that they tend not to go away; but if 
their hanging around can cause a VE to cease functioning, that's not so 
great. Any ideas on how we can fix this?

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