diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a199ff07..86aca7eb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ install:
   - "travis_wait 30 sleep 1800 &"
   - docker build --build-arg "version=$NPM_TAG" --build-arg "NODE_VERSION=$NODE_VERSION" --build-arg "GITHUB_TOKEN=$GITHUB_TOKEN" . -t "$IMAGE_TAG" --no-cache
   - docker tag "$IMAGE_TAG" "$IMAGE:$NPM_TAG"
-  - docker run -d -p 0.0.0.0:4000:3000 "$IMAGE_TAG"
+  - docker run --init -d -p 0.0.0.0:4000:3000 "$IMAGE_TAG"
 
 script: cd ../tests; yarn; yarn test-app-$IMAGE_NAME
 
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index fda76a80..e0f13b7f 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Building the image for Theia tag:
 
 Running the image:
 
-    docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v /myproject:/home/project theiaide/theia:v0.2.1
+    docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v /myproject:/home/project theiaide/theia:v0.2.1
 
 Building the next image:
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Tag the image as latest:
 
 Running the latest image:
 
-    docker run -p 3000:3000 theiaide/theia
+    docker run --init -p 3000:3000 theiaide/theia
 
 Pushing images to Docker Hub:
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e15072c1..8804c400 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ This repository contains example Theia applications based on published Theia ext
 
 At the moment Theia is still in [the active development](https://github.com/theia-ide/theia#roadmap). It is recommended to use [`theiaide/theia:next`](#typefoxtheianext) image to have a look at the current state.
 
-This script pulls the image and runs Theia IDE on http://localhost:3000 with the current directory as a workspace.
+This script pulls the image and runs Theia IDE on http://localhost:3000 with the current directory as a workspace. The option of `--init` is added to fix the [defunct process problem](https://github.com/theia-ide/theia-apps/issues/195).
 
-    docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next
+    docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next
 
 You can pass additional arguments to Theia after the image name, for example to enable debugging:
 
-    docker run -it -p 3000:3000 --expose 9229 -p 9229:9229 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next --inspect=0.0.0.0:9229
+    docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 --expose 9229 -p 9229:9229 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia:next --inspect=0.0.0.0:9229
 
 ### Image Variants
 
diff --git a/theia-go-docker/README.md b/theia-go-docker/README.md
index 50972f64..60f4e252 100644
--- a/theia-go-docker/README.md
+++ b/theia-go-docker/README.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Run on http://localhost:3000 with the current directory as a workspace:
 
 ```bash
-docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -e GO111MODULE=auto -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia-go:next
+docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -e GO111MODULE=auto -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project:cached" theiaide/theia-go:next
 ```
 **IMPORTANT**: if your host OS is different from image OS (linux-amd64) then don't mount but pull (`go get`) the project from the container to install dependencies against image OS, otherwise Go tooling won't work properly
 
diff --git a/theia-python-docker/README.md b/theia-python-docker/README.md
index 08ddb780..3b9d1ab5 100644
--- a/theia-python-docker/README.md
+++ b/theia-python-docker/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ docker build --build-arg version=next . -t theiaide/theia-python:next
 ### Run locally on Linux or OS X
 
 ```bash
-docker run -it -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project" theiaide/theia-python:latest
+docker run -it --init -p 3000:3000 -v "$(pwd):/home/project" theiaide/theia-python:latest
 ```
 
 ### Push to Docker Hub
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ docker push theiaide/theia-python:${VERSION}
 
 ```
 docker pull theiaide/theia-python:${VERSION}
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```