Here's the output: stefano 17733 0.0 0.1 2880 748 pts/0 R+ 11:59 0:00 grep avscan
The avscan program comes from Ubuntu universe repositories... Anyway, now I've seen it happens *whenever* I 1) open a shell window, 2) launch a program from it and then 3) close the shell window (causing the program to end as well). I tried with gedit, glchess and other programs: always when I close the parent shell window, the system monitor still lists the "ghost" child processes. The ps command doesn't list any of them. -- finished processes are not removed completely from list https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83191 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs