I just noticed this tonight. My fresh install of 11.04 always has one process in a zombie state. I can't seem to kill/end it.
zeitgeist-datah -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Zeitgeist Framework Team, which is subscribed to Zeitgeist Framework. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/739780 Title: Session starting with a zeitgeist-datahub zombie process Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Fix Committed Status in Zeitgeist Datahub: Invalid Status in “zeitgeist” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: zeitgeist To reproduce, either a.) Just start a desktop session b.) Kill the zeitgeist-daemon and manually run zeitgeist-datahub In both cases 'ps' reveals a zombie process: http://paste.ubuntu.com/583545/ ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: zeitgeist-core 0.7-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Mar 21 23:07:05 2011 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: zeitgeist UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2010-12-08 (103 days ago) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist Post to : zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp