16.04.3 LTS Pidgin 2.10.12 (libpurple 2.10.12) also impacted. The notes above consider this situation normal, but it is not. There is no reason for the app to skip collecting the spawned processes after failed DNS or connection attempt.
https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15617 is still in new status. -- 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
