Starting tmux as another user puts TPM in an infinite process spawn

[CharlesB2]

I'm in a harmful situation, as I started tmux as another user for testing purposes, now I see spawning processes like sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm, infinitely running. Here is the output of ps -aef --forest .

alessan+  13592      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13597  13592  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13817  13597  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00      \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/source_plugins.sh
alessan+  13662      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13671  13662  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13905  13671  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00      \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/source_plugins.sh
alessan+  13960  13905  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00          \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/source_plugins.sh
alessan+  13734      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13746  13734  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13972  13746  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00      \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/scripts/source_plugins.sh
alessan+  13839      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13851  13839  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13896      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13902  13896  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13969      1  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00 sh -c ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm
alessan+  13974  13969  0 09:55 ?        00:00:00  \_ bash /home/charles/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm

The initial command was sudo -u alessandro tmux a.

Looking at execsnoop, the rate of process spawning is very high, and I have no idea on how to stop this!

My .tmux.conf (relevant excerpts):

set-option -g default-command "$SHELL"

# address vim mode switching delay (http://superuser.com/a/252717/65504)
set-option -s escape-time 0

set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tpm'
set -g @plugin 'tmux-plugins/tmux-yank'

# Initialize TMUX plugin manager (keep this line at the very bottom of tmux.conf)
run -b '~/.tmux/plugins/tpm/tpm'

(I have tmux 2.1)

[CharlesB2]

To stop this situation I had to rename path to tpm

[jonlorusso]

@CharlesB2 experiencing something similar though it's not necessary to start as another user. Can you explain what you mean by this:

To stop this situation I had to rename path to tpm

[CharlesB2]

Can you explain what you mean by this:

To stop this situation I had to rename path to tpm

I mean I had to temporarily move or rename (don't remember) the directory where tpm is installed, so that the infinite loop stops