[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#775187: virt-manager: closing a qemu+ssh connection will result in a zombie ssh process

[Jan Sperling]

Package: virt-manager
Version: 0.9.1-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

looks like virt-manager having problems closing qemu+ssh property.
If such a connection is used there will always remain a ssh zombie process if
the connection is closed.
Simplest way to reproduce this just add a new connection within virt-manager.
Select QEMU/KVM as hypervisor and check the "Connect to remote host" Box.
Choose localhost as hostname.
Virt-manager will automatically connect via ssh to the local host. After
closing this connection there will be left a zombie ssh process. This process
will remain until virt-manager is closed.
As this will happen to all qemu+ssh connections after connecting and
disconnecting to several virtual machines via the graphical  console there will
remain a lot of zombie processes.

Regards
Jan Sperling



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virt-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                   3.2.5-1+build1
ii  librsvg2-common          2.36.1-2
ii  python                   2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-dbus              1.1.1-1
ii  python-glade2            2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-gnome2            2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gtk-vnc           0.5.0-3.1
ii  python-gtk2              2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-ipy               1:0.75-1
ii  python-libvirt           0.9.12.3-1+deb7u1
ii  python-spice-client-gtk  0.12-5
ii  python-support           1.0.15
ii  python-urlgrabber        3.9.1-4
ii  python-vte               1:0.28.2-5
ii  virtinst                 0.600.1-3+deb7u2

Versions of packages virt-manager recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme  3.4.0-2
ii  libvirt-bin       0.9.12.3-1+deb7u1

Versions of packages virt-manager suggests:
ii  gnome-keyring        3.4.1-5
pn  hal                  <none>
pn  python-gnomekeyring  <none>
pn  python-guestfs       <none>
ii  ssh-askpass          1:1.2.4.1-9
ii  virt-viewer          0.5.3-1

-- no debconf information