[Bug 998521] Re: whoopsie process is leaking memory

[Sebastien Bacher]

Clint:

you can see the details of the commits on
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/log/?h=glib-2-32

summary of the .news:

* GApplication: can now have a NULL application ID

* g_clear_object: fix warnings when using it on C++ (due to lack of
  ability to implicitly cast void*)

* GDBus:
 - add our own implementation of the message bus for use on Windows only
 - fix up a few bugs that use of this bus uncovered in GDBus
 - escape nonce files in dbus addressess (think 'c:\')
 - support initial underscores in dbus codegen namespace (for private)

* Fix misdetection of GNUstep as Cocoa (for the MacOS GSettings backend)

* make sure configure fails if AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF cannot detect the
alignment

* GAppInfo: overwrite the DISPLAY only if it is set in the launch
context

* glib/tests/date: force US locale running the GDateTime tests

* GSocketControlMessage: Don't warn about unknown messages

* Resources:
 - fix broken use of GVDB on big endian machines
 - set a 'display name' so that pretty file names appear in Gtk CSS
   warning messages

* GMainContext:
 - block child sources when blocking the parent
 - introduce more testcases for child sources

* Bug fixed:
 619026 avoid warning in gutils.h when using gcc with -Wconversion
 669260 Open/Save dialog hangs waiting for data with libsoup
 671249 GApplication: Allow a null application_id?
 672786 goa-daemon: action in notification doesn't work
 673409 g_resource_lookup_data may return stale data pointer
 674172 glib-2.32.1 misdetects GNUstep as Cocoa
 674345 cssprovider: Make sure to print out file name in css warnings
 674483 broken configure results when cross-compiling with gcc >= 4.5 

* Bug fixes:
 Correct a typo in the ELF configure check
 Reset LIBS after the ELF configure check
 Fix GIO/GObject Visual C++ projects
 gio: fix error handling in async case of GProxy...
 GConverterInputStream: fix an infinite loop...

* Translation updates

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The new version is shipped in Debian testing and fedora, a big part of
the diff is the dbus server added for win32 (it's not used on linux)

Testing ... there is nothing specific to test out of the fact that the
desktop keeps running normally

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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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