.xsession-errors grows quickly and indefinitely

Bug #877420 reported by Scott Moser
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
System Load Indicator
Expired
Low
Unassigned
indicator-multiload (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
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Bug Description

I'm logged into unity-2d, for at least 392245 seconds (per 'echo $SECONDS' in a terminal i had open). That is ~ 108 hours, just over 4 days.

$ ls -altr .xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 smoser smoser 1433954001 2011-10-18 09:17 .xsession-errors

I've filed this bug against 'gnome-session', as it was the first pid to have this file open. I'll attach full lsof output also so you can see all the processes with it open. I'll also attach a

.xesssion-errors is being written to repeatedly with a message like the following:

' does not start with 'cpu1': Resource temporarily unavailable
glibtop: 'intr 155804419 91091683 470583 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 27482 0 0 7440876 0 0 0 207225 6516 2129 0 69 249 0 5148256 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 212687 1317541 4489636 22517867 603 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ctxt 439474352
btime 1318528821
processes 1146706
procs_running 2
procs_blocked 0
softirq 92185829 2 23974943 10006 1285072 4697203 2 27171913 5804 16744 35024140
' does not start with 'cpu1': Resource temporarily unavailable

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-session 3.2.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 18 09:05:16 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (336 days ago)
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
Package: indicator-multiload 0.2-0+33~17~16~oneiric1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric running-unity
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (336 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sbuild

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

$ dpkg-query --show indicator-multiload
indicator-multiload 0.2-0+33~17~16~oneiric1

I just noticed the 'glibtop', and the suspected indicator-multiload. I did a 'tail -f .xsession-errors' and then closed indicator-multiload and the log entries immediately stopped.

affects: gnome-session (Ubuntu) → indicator-multiload (Ubuntu)
tags: added: apport-collected
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Scott Moser (smoser) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

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Michael Hofmann (mh21) wrote :

I've never been able to reproduce this, do you still see this error with 0.3 from https://launchpad.net/~indicator-multiload/+archive/daily ?

Changed in indicator-multiload:
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in indicator-multiload (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Michael Hofmann (mh21)
Changed in indicator-multiload:
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for System Load Indicator because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in indicator-multiload:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for indicator-multiload (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in indicator-multiload (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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