[Bug 45406] memory leak in gnome-cups-icon

[Paul Ortman]

Public bug reported:

After running several hours (or perhaps overnight) the gnome-cups-icon
process consumes a tremendous amount of my available RAM.  Several times
this has lead to the Linux OOM killing various running processes.

I end up -HUPing the gnome-cups-icon process which seems to free the
memory and keep everything running.

I'm more than willing to run the process under valgrind or the like to
try to generate reports useful for developers, but I'm not sure exactly
the best way to go about doing that -- tips are welcome.

Below are details of my system as reported by reportbug (which doesn't
really seem to work by the way -- bugs are never seemingly ever
received).

 -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers dapper-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'dapper-updates'), (500, 'dapper-security'), (500, 'dapper-backports'), (500, 'dapper')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-22-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2        2.3.17-1             Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0         1.11.4-0ubuntu1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0        2.14.0-0ubuntu1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0      2.14.0-0ubuntu1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6               2.3.6-0ubuntu18      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcairo2           1.0.4-0ubuntu1       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcupsys2          1.2.0-0ubuntu4       Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii  libfontconfig1      2.3.2-1.1ubuntu11    generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4         2.14.0-1ubuntu1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0         1:2.5.1-2ubuntu2     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.10.2-1ubuntu1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0   0.4.9-1ubuntu1       GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0         2.14.1-0ubuntu2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.14.0-0ubuntu1      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1   0.2.2-1ubuntu2       GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1 0.31-1.1ubuntu7      UI extensions to libgnomecups
ii  libgnomeui-0        2.14.1-0ubuntu2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0      2.14.1-0ubuntu5      GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgnutls12         1.2.9-2ubuntu1       the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.8.17-1ubuntu4      The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libice6             2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2           1:2.14.0-0ubuntu1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.12.2-0ubuntu3      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0            1.7-5                lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6              2:1.0.0-0ubuntu2     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6            2:1.0.0-0ubuntu9     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1         1.1.5.2-0ubuntu4     X cursor management library
ii  libxext6            2:1.0.0-0ubuntu4     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3          1:3.0.1.2-0ubuntu3   X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6              2:1.0.0-0ubuntu3     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1        2:1.0.1-0ubuntu2     X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2             2.6.24.dfsg-1ubuntu1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2          1:1.1.0.2-0ubuntu4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1         1:0.9.0.2-0ubuntu2   X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3-6ubuntu4     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-cups-manager recommends:
ii  gksu                      1.3.7-0ubuntu9 graphical frontend to su

** Affects: gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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memory leak in gnome-cups-icon
https://launchpad.net/bugs/45406