Comment 8 for bug 206960

Kubuntu Karmic 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-20-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 8 09:05:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux, KDE 4.4.1, wicd 1.6.2.2-1, dhcpcd 1:3.2.3-3ubuntu1 (not installed).

top shows:

top - 13:29:29 up 4:44, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.04, 0.06
Tasks: 191 total, 1 running, 188 sleeping, 1 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2052252k total, 1951088k used, 101164k free, 129696k buffers
Swap: 2096440k total, 0k used, 2096440k free, 1324188k cached

sudo ps -elf | grep Z shows:

F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME CMD
4 Z root 2070 1643 0 80 0 - 0 exit 08:45 ? 00:00:00 [dhclient] <defunct>
1 S paul 23982 21197 0 80 0 - 17605 poll_s 13:21 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit4: kio_http [kdeinit] http local:/tmp/ksocket-paul/klauncherT21198.slave-socket local:/tmp/ksocket-paul/konquerorZ21478.slave-socket
0 S paul 24180 23998 0 80 0 - 761 pipe_w 13:30 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto Z

The zombie is always [dhclient] <defunct> and although it isn't hurting anything, and easy to kill (sudo kill -9 [ppid #]), it shouldn't be created.