https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394360
--- Comment #6 from Fabian Vogt <fab...@ritter-vogt.de> --- That strace output is very useful: 16233 exit_group(0) = ? 16233 +++ exited with 0 +++ 13987 <... ppoll resumed> ) = ? ERESTARTNOHAND (To be restarted if no handler) 13987 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=16233, si_uid=500, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} --- 13987 ppoll([{fd=-1}, {fd=-1}, {fd=-1}, {fd=46, events=POLLIN}], 4, NULL, NULL, 8 <unfinished ...> 13990 <... poll resumed> ) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}]) If I interpret this correctly, kdeinit was currently doing a ppoll (no sigmask, so == poll) and it had no handler, as otherwise it would've done one of the calls in the handler and not continue with ppoll. This seems to explain it: 13987 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {sa_handler=SIG_DFL, sa_mask=[], sa_flags=SA_RESTORER, sa_restorer=0x7f0242406110}, NULL, 8) = 0 It's the last call to rt_sigaction in that process, so it removed its signal handler, so it's no surprise it stays a zombie... Now the question is where the rt_sigaction call comes from. It might be somewhere in forkfd. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.