I think I have the same problem onUbuntu 10.04.3 and 2.7.9, as I just posted to this group. The symptoms seem identical and in ps -ef I see that the puppet agent spawned an sh process that became defunct. This seems to be the cause for the hanging agent, but what causes that zombie process I have no idea.
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