Well I am seeing something odd in Pidgin. $ ps -elf | grep defunct | wc -l 121 $ ps -elf | grep defunct | grep pidgin | wc -l 120
(One of the 'defunct' hits is the grep) $ pidgin --version Pidgin 2.10.12 (libpurple 2.10.12) I have IRC, and XMPP to GoogleMail (Hangouts / Talk) configured and active in Pidgin at the moment. Someone else mentioned Google Hangouts and I can easily live without for a few days to see if the problem goes away. Account Disabled. I also have Facebook (XMPP), Skype (D-Bus) and Skype setup with Pidgin but only the IRC and googlemail chat accounts were enabled when this error was noticed. I shall try closing Pidgin to clean up the defuncts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 Title: Pidgin is creating zombies 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
