Tomboy slowly accumulates zombie children.

Bug #956893 reported by Gavin Panella
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This bug affects 49 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
tomboy
Fix Released
Low
tomboy (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

The following was edited out of a `pstree -ca` dump:

-tomboy /usr/lib/tomboy/Tomboy.exe
   |-(sh)
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   |-sh -c...
   |   `-pxgsettings org.gnome.system.proxy org.gnome.system.proxy.httporg.gnome.system.proxy.https
   |       |-{pxgsettings}
   |       `-{pxgsettings}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   |-{tomboy}
   `-{tomboy}

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: tomboy 1.9.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 16 12:02:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=bash
SourcePackage: tomboy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-16 (60 days ago)

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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Still affects up-to-date 12.04

Changed in tomboy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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luca (l-savio) wrote :

still in stable 12.04

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Fatih Ozturk (fozturk) wrote :

I also have this bug on my Ubuntu 12.04 on dell latitude e5520m. I get 5 more zombie process each time i run synchronization option.

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luca (l-savio) wrote :

40 zombies after three hours uptime.. please fix it!

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Minqiang (ptpt52) wrote :

Im here to say, I got the same issue!

Changed in tomboy:
importance: Unknown → Low
status: Unknown → New
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MIchal ThomaT (michal-thoma) wrote :

It's not only zombies, the notes synchronization doesn't work at all. I get rid of zombies by deactivating the sync, though not possible to set it up again. Seems like local service on the port 8000 is not running properly.

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Fernando Maia (fmmaia) wrote :

In less than 24h I got more than 400 zombies just by leaving the sync on its default settings. Easiest way to get rid of the zombies: close Tomboy and staring it up again. Nothing is affected (sync still works ok), but zombie creation will build up again.

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Biji (biji) wrote :

My configuration is syncing to ubuntu one server

        ├─tomboy(5733)─┬─sh(5928)
        │ ├─sh(5937)
        │ ├─sh(5942)
        │ ├─sh(5946)
        │ ├─sh(5950)
        │ ├─sh(5954)
        │ ├─sh(5958)
        │ ├─sh(5962)
        │ ├─sh(6003)
        │ ├─sh(6007)
        │ ├─sh(6339)
        │ ├─sh(6343)
        │ ├─sh(7088)
        │ ├─sh(7093)
        │ ├─sh(9276)
        │ ├─sh(9282)
        │ ├─sh(11707)
        │ ├─sh(11712)───pxgsettings(11713)─┬─{pxgsettings}(11714)
        │ │ └─{pxgsettings}(11715)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5736)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5737)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5738)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5739)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5740)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5741)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5746)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5926)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5927)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5932)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5933)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5934)
        │ ├─{tomboy}(5935)
        │ └─{tomboy}(5936)

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Petre Tudor (petre-2dor) wrote :

the same problem

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Juan Pablo Caballero (cjpablo) wrote :

Ubuntu 12.04, the same problem here

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DiegoV (diegofcviegas) wrote :
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My pstree, from Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bits:

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jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Please refrain from posting any more 'me, too' comments.

Changed in tomboy:
status: New → In Progress
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Jan Schürmann (visionfactory.net) wrote :

this bug still exists in Ubuntu 12.10 with all the latest updates

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Žygimantas Beručka (zygis) wrote :

This bug is still present in 1.12.0-1ubuntu2 from Raring.

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Adrian Scripcă (benishor) wrote :

The bug is still present in package version 1.15.2-1ubuntu1 from Ubuntu 13.10.
Sending kill -s SIGCHLD <tomboypid> has no effect whatsoever, the zombie child processes are still there.

Changed in tomboy:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote :

Upstream apparently has a patch. That does not seem to be incorporated by Ubuntu though.

tags: added: saucy
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