[Bug 1809505] Re: 'Livepatch-Notif' is always a zombie process after a system restart

[chris pollock]

Question, since I have to kill the update-notifier process to get rid of
the Zombie Livepatch-Notif process does this mean that updates are not
being automatically checked for and that I need to run 'apt update'
manually periodically?

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Title:
  'Livepatch-Notif' is always a zombie process after a system restart

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is Ubuntu 18.04.1 with update-notifier version
  apt-cache policy update-notifier
  update-notifier:
    Installed: 3.192.1.4
    Candidate: 3.192.1.4

  As shown here - https://imageshack.com/i/pl753Ekfp AFAICT I don't have
  livepatch enabled. Running:

  chris at localhost:/var/log$ ps axo stat,ppid,pid,comm | grep -w defunct
  Z+    3283  3290 livepatch-notif <defunct>

  3283 chris     20   0  585404  23776  17608 S   0.0  0.2   0:00.09
  update-
  notifier                                                               
                                                                         
  3290 chris     20   0       0      0      0 Z   0.0  0.0   0:00.00
  livepatch-notif    

  It's no big deal to remove the zombie by killing update-notifier
  however I don't know if that's the right thing to do or not and why is
  livepatch-notif always a zombie process after a restart?

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