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gnome-power-manager package

gnome-power-manager sometimes starts using all RAM

Bug #125999 reported by Rich on 2007-07-14

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Several times since my upgrade to Gutsy, my laptop has become extraordinarily unresponsive, and it has become evident that gnome-power-manager is using all of my system's available memory.

rich 6325 0.4 73.3 1248444 759076 ? Ssl 00:41 2:24 gnome-power-manager

$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1011 996 14 0 1 37
-/+ buffers/cache: 957 53
Swap: 1004 701 302

It will increase usage until none is left and the OOM killer tries to take over, but this takes several minutes and is unacceptable.

# uname -a
Linux eris 2.6.22-7-generic #1 SMP Mon Jun 25 17:33:14 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -s gnome-power-manager
Package: gnome-power-manager
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 9616
Maintainer: Oliver Grawert <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.19.5-0ubuntu1

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Bojan Rajkovic (bojanr) wrote on 2007-07-14:

Same issue here with gnome-power-manager, except I noticed it out of control before it really sucked me dry.
I had to force-kill it using kill -9.

Information:

# uname -a
Linux sirius 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

# dpkg -s gnome-power-manager

Package: gnome-power-manager
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 9616
Maintainer: Oliver Grawert <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.19.5-0ubuntu1

I can't provide memory usage info about it at the moment but will watch for it to happen again and will report more.

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Rich (rincebrain) wrote on 2007-07-25:

Problem just recurred today.

I have no ideas regarding a source of the problem.

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Rich (rincebrain) wrote on 2007-07-26:

gnomepower.log.gz Edit (45.4 KiB, application/octet-stream)

Have an strace from today, when it did it again.

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Richard Hughes (richard-hughes) wrote on 2007-08-04:

Can somebody open an upstream bug please. Thanks.

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote on 2008-02-21:

Hi Guys
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you?, Can you please try with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron?

Thanks in advance.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee:	nobody → sourcercito
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Rich (rincebrain) wrote on 2008-02-21:

I've been running Hardy for some time, and I haven't observed this bug in so long that I'd forgotten about it.

I'd be willing to claim this bug isn't present in Hardy, but it's possible that it's extant and whatever combination of factors occurred before is no longer present.

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Basilio Kublik (sourcercito) wrote on 2008-02-22:

Hi there
thanks for your feedback, i'll close this report since the issue doesn't seems to be present anymore, anyway if you ever experience this issue again, please file a new bug report, because this one refers to an old version of the application. Thanks again for taking the time to report this issue and help to make Ubuntu better, don't hesitate in report any future bugs you might encounter.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
assignee:	sourcercito → nobody
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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madneon (madneon) wrote on 2008-03-31:

Problem appeared in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron beta, fully upgraded. I guess this happen when battery charge was critically low, and system should/suppose to hibernate. Laptop HP Pavilion HDX9050.

$ uname -a
Linux madneon 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 23:01:54 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -s gnome-power-manager
Package: gnome-power-manager
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 12416
Maintainer: Ted Gould <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.22.0-0ubuntu2