Seeing many defunct pidgin processes

[Michael McConville]

Steven DuChene wrote:
> One of the accounts I have setup in pidgin is a sipe account for work.
> When I start pidgin it always fails to connect with a SSL connection error.
> In order to get it to connect I then have to repeatedly click on the
> Reconnect button that pops up when the connection fails.
> Eventually it does connect and is useable but I see all of the following
> defunct processes in my process list.
> This is with pidgin 2.10.11 running on Ubuntu 14.04

Hm, looks like this could be a DNS issue. Pidgin's main (or only?)
reason for forking after startup is for DNS resolution.

Do you have a non-standard or buggy DNS configuration?

> $ ps awx|grep pidgi
> 18580 ?        Ss     0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/pidgin
> 18581 ?        Sl     0:02 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig
> 18598 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18603 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18610 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18615 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18619 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18624 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18628 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18632 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18636 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18644 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18648 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18652 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18656 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18660 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18664 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18669 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18674 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18678 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18682 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18688 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18693 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18697 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18702 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18706 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18713 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18717 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18721 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18727 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18734 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18739 ?        Z      0:00 [pidgin.orig] <defunct>
> 18752 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig
> 18754 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/bin/pidgin.orig
> 
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