ksysguard spawns hordes of zombies

[Sergei Ivanov]

Binary package hint: ksysguard

I have ksysguard but no ksysguardd installed. When I run ksysguard, it shows a process table. In a short period of time, this table is full of zombie ksysguard processes. There is one living process and it keeps spawning more and more zombies. After 2 minutes (wall clock), the command `ps ax | grep ksysguard | wc -l' shows more than 240 of these beasts, so it's approximately 2 new zombies per second. Luckily they all die when the ksysguard window is closed.

This is kubuntu karmik beta, ksysguard version is 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 19 23:30:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/ksysguard
Package: ksysguard 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Alex (mestia)]

the same on Lucid 10.04
ksysguard 4.4.2-0ubuntu14

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Is this still an issue with more recent Kubuntus?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for kde-workspace (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]