GAIM produces 100s of children

[Chris Ruprecht]

Hi Chris,

I'm using a few plug-ins (system tray, the one which shows the last
conversation,...) nothing which is not installed with GAIM by default.

I'm on my home machine now - I get the problems on the office machine. I
have the box set to auto-update, so it's always on the latest.

Maybe I can run a md5sum on the gaim files - maybe something is corrupt.

Best regards,
Chris


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:46, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Chris Ruprecht wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm running Gaim 1.0.0-0 FC2 under FC2. When started under GNOME, it
> >seems to create 100s of child processes. They don't die, when I quit
> >GAIM, but hang around and keep me signed in. I had to reboot the machine
> >yesterday to get rid of the processes - that's not quite UNIX-like, it's
> >almost like being on a Windoze machine ;).
> >
> >All GAIM child processes were based on process 1, not the parent GAIM
> >process (as if they run with 'nohup').
> >
> >I have not observed this behavior under KDE. Any ideas anybody?
> >
> >Best regards,
> >Chris
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Same GAIM version works for me under gnome on FC2 with latest updates.  
> Only one process for gaim, and it also has ppid of 1.
> 
> I'm only using the aim server(s), are you using other IM backends?
> 
> Chris
> 
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