[Bug 998521] Re: whoopsie process is leaking memory

[Sebastien Bacher]

summary of the changes

small bug fixes, including (which we would probably backport):
* "GSocketControlMessage: Don't warn about unknown messages"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=9b1a9ed4ce326d4ebfca68b2a98ddb4d8110e5e7

* "gmain: block child sources when blocking the parent"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=b1d447bd664bcbc607811c7920b67856d4f551e6
* "resourcefile: Set display name"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=ad35c6cae1ad065bc46968b1169c18e624dd8ada

* "Support initial underscores in dbus codegen namespace"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=5051aaca68eacf280ce48d1500a19cccf2125fc8

* "gdbus: Escape nonce files in dbus addressess"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=27352d96e28cf9e65bce12e2250a679261872aae

* "Fix g_clear_object macro with C++ compilers"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=d92736ab032bb650b1d115042e2a0ff965175940

* "GApplication: allow null application_id"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=7e9306e84e3cfc9b9e43991bd6d1978a77463349

* "gio: fix error handling in async case of GProxyAddressEnumerator"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=b62b5a3d8c67e3245e6d642207d07cafe3943fc2

* "GConverterInputStream: fix an infinite loop when fill_buffer returns an error"
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-32&id=6799e4a73a93c4c6c2e3fbfbd44f05e5a5e26bcf

translations updates: 18
win32 specific fixes: 9
tests cases improvements: 3
change we already backported: 1
build system fixes (including other platforms): 8

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Title:
  whoopsie process is leaking memory

Status in Whoopsie Daisy:
  Fix Released
Status in “glib2.0” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “glib2.0” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “glib2.0” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Committed
Status in “whoopsie-daisy” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Impact: stable update from the upstream serie including a fix for a
  leak affecting the default Ubuntu bug reporting tool (whoopsie)

  Development Fix: the fix is in upstream glib git and will be in q with
  the next update

  Stable Fix: the fix is a one liner, the new version has some extra
  changes

  Test Case: watch the whoopsie memory usage over time, it should be
  stable

  Regression Potential: it's glib, the update should be carefully tested

  I have a 12.04 server running for 7 days and today I noticed some things started to be swapped out.
  top shows:
    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
   1975 whoopsie  20   0 2649m 1.4g  484 S    0 18.5  14:05.67 whoopsie
  with 1.4g residential memory.

  There were 2 crashed applications, facter with .crash file is 2.8Mb and landscape-sysinfo of 17K so it does not look like it is related.
  I will keep the process running in case i can provide more information and will monitor the process to see whether it is leaking memory.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: whoopsie 0.1.32
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashReports:
   640:0:111:17379:2012-05-05 10:59:39.677061820 +0300:2012-05-05 10:59:39.673061820 +0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_landscape-sysinfo.0.crash
   640:0:111:2838166:2012-05-07 00:54:24.435092602 +0300:2012-05-07 00:54:19.759092709 +0300:/var/crash/_usr_bin_facter.0.crash
  Date: Sat May 12 21:41:18 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120424.1)
  SourcePackage: whoopsie-daisy
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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