you don't get it by choosing to install zeitgeist, it comes in as a dependency of unity-place-files and unity-place-applications, which are recommended dependencies of unity. Remove zeitgeist and you lose the unity place things too.
meh, no loss; launcher's too full on this netbook anyway, and always spotting that zombie was getting distracting... Oh btw, getting this issue on x64 desktop too. reports i've seen so far seemed to all be for x86 so thought i'd mention... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Zeitgeist Framework Team, which is subscribed to Zeitgeist Framework. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739780 Title: Session starting with a zeitgeist-datahub zombie process Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Fix Released Status in Zeitgeist Datahub: Invalid Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: zeitgeist To reproduce, either a.) Just start a desktop session b.) Kill the zeitgeist-daemon and manually run zeitgeist-datahub In both cases 'ps' reveals a zombie process: http://paste.ubuntu.com/583545/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: zeitgeist-core 0.7-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Mar 21 23:07:05 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: zeitgeist UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2010-12-08 (103 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zeitgeist/+bug/739780/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist Post to : zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp