diff --git a/src/slurmd/slurmstepd/mgr.c b/src/slurmd/slurmstepd/mgr.c
index 88e08b67cb924fb126454f1ef00ce6d88c46d859..5eb46b3da079293c9f7b34d07e38a63ba88ba3fd 100644
--- a/src/slurmd/slurmstepd/mgr.c
+++ b/src/slurmd/slurmstepd/mgr.c
@@ -668,7 +668,6 @@ _fork_all_tasks(slurmd_job_t *job)
 		if (pdebug_trace_process(job, job->task[i]->pid)
 				== SLURM_ERROR)
 			rc = SLURM_ERROR;
-		pdebug_trace_process(job, job->task[i]->pid);
 	}
 	xfree(writefds);
 	xfree(readfds);