Several years on, this is still present in wily. I'm not sure if it's the same root cause, but pgrep plugin-container doesn't work. Annoying, as I typically do kill -9 `pgrep xxx`, and killing Nightly doesn't kill plugin-container (it will die some time later, causing apport to complain).
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