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[Bug 1245666] Re: Pidgin is creating zombies with 13.10

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From: johnstrass <1245666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:25:59 -0000
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I met the same problem in 14.04 LTS, pidgin version 2.10.9

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Title:
  Pidgin is creating zombies with 13.10

Status in Pidgin:
  Unknown
Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “pidgin” package in Fedora:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  After upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10 pidgin is constantly creating new
  zombies.

  E.g. after an uptime of roughly 4 hours:
  $ ps aux | grep Z
  USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
  cm        2589  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    17:46   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        3045  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    17:47   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        3106  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    17:48   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        3236  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    17:50   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        5760  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    17:54   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        5788  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:02   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6405  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:12   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6501  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:22   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6519  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:32   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:42   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6580  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:52   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6619  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:02   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6645  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:12   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6672  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:22   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6691  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:32   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6757  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:42   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6846  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    19:52   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6869  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:01   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6889  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:11   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6914  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:21   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6931  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:31   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6948  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:41   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6972  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    20:51   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        6992  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    21:01   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        7015  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    21:11   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        7036  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    21:20   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        7121  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    21:30   0:00 [pidgin] <defunct>
  cm        7223  0.0  0.0  10984   940 pts/0    S+   21:38   0:00 grep --color=auto Z

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