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kde4libs package

Memory leak in kcatalog.cpp

Bug #330446 reported by Tomi Junnila
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kdelibs
Fix Released
Medium
kde4libs (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-5
Intrepid
Won't Fix
Medium
Jonathan Thomas
Ubuntu intrepid-updates

Bug Description

*Below added by Jonathan Thomas*
    Stable Release Update (SRU) infos:
    -Impact: International users suffer from severe memory leaks when checking their mail, among other things
    -Addressed by: This bug has been addressed by adding an upstream patch included in KDE 4.2 that fixes this.
    -Testcase: Use language localization and check mail in KMail.
    -Patch/regression potential: Small. The patch is from upstream (committed for KDE 4.2.1) and upstream is generally good at keeping patches safe.
  #######################################################################

This bug affects Ubuntu 8.10 kde4libs packages for 4.1.X and 4.2.0.

There is a problem in kdecore/localization/kcatalog.cpp which causes kmail (at least -- the bug probably affects other applications as well) to leak large amounts of memory fairly fast (I've seen 2 MB leaked when kmail checks for new mail, although usually less).

The upstream bug report can be found at <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184529>, and also has a link to a patch for 4.2.1 which is also directly applicable to 4.1.4. The direct link to the patch itself is <http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/localization/kcatalog.cpp?r1=899214&r2=918505&view=patch>.

See original description

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/kde4libs
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Should be quite easy to do. Once we're in feature freeze I'll take a look at this. (The time before feature freeze is very busy with other things)

Changed in kde4libs:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → jaunty-alpha-5
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in kdelibs:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Fix committed to bzr for Jaunty, nominating an SRU for Intrepid.

Changed in kde4libs:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in kde4libs:
assignee: nobody → echidnaman
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → intrepid-updates
status: New → In Progress
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The source package for intrepid-proposed can be found attached to bug 314016.

description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package kde4libs - 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu1

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kde4libs (4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Roderick B. Greening ]
  * New upstream release

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * Remove kubuntu_66_fix_kcatalog_memleak.diff, applied upstream

  [ Jonathan Thomas ]
  * Add kubuntu_66_fix_kcatalog_memleak from upstream to fix a memory leak.
    This patch can be removed in KDE 4.2.1. (LP: #330446)
  * Compress binary packages with lzma compression

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Adjust conflicts/replaces to account for KDE 4.1.4 in intrepid-updates

 -- <email address hidden> (Roderick B. Greening) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:33:26 -0330

Changed in kde4libs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Changed in kde4libs:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Sorry, belay that:

FAILED: kde4libs (kde4libs_4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.1.diff.gz is already published in archive for intrepid)

1.1 was a no-change rebuild in -security to fix dependencies. Please reupload as intrepid1.2.

Changed in kde4libs:
status: Fix Committed → In Progress
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

At this point it'd probably be better to upgrade to Kubuntu 9.04 or at least KDE 4.2 from -backports. Sorry that I dropped the ball on this.

Changed in kde4libs (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: In Progress → Won't Fix
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Changed in kdelibs:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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