Just happened again... this time with krunner as the parent: ps axo stat,ppid,pid,comm | grep -w defunct Z 2314 16967 xdg-user-dir <defunct> Z 2314 17105 xdg-user-dir <defunct>
ps -e | grep 2314 2314 ? 00:02:43 krunner
Believe it's the same type of thing... I'll update both tickets. I got another backtrace.