[Bug 1053898] Re: udisks-daemon ate all system memory, then crashed system

[Nathan J. Brauer]

I stumbled on this today as well.  8GB drive.

1. Clicked "Erase Disk"
2. After a LONG time, it seemed to not be doing anything, so I quit the application (with the "X" button, not a kill; no error was given.)
3. Formatted the drive via "Disks" application.
4. Re-opened Startup Disk Creator and successfully wrote to the disk.
5. Put my machine in standby
6. Woke up this morning, turned on the computer and after 15-30 minutes, computer started lagging. Checked processes and found udisk-* eating up all my memory and 1/4 of my Swap.

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Title:
  udisks-daemon ate all system memory, then crashed system

Status in “udisks” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi,

  After I tried to use the "USB startup disk creator", it crashed
  formatting the USB key.

  Afterwards my system went writing to disk forever and became
  unresponsive.

  It eventually ended up to a text terminal stating that udisks-daemon
  ate all memory and the kernel started killing tasks, then the system
  froze to death, with the disk still endlessly working.

  In the end I had no way but using the MagicSysRq to reboot...

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: udisks 1.0.4-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
  CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
  CustomUdevRuleFiles: 10-vboxdrv.rules
  Date: Fri Sep 21 11:14:15 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  MachineType: TOSHIBA SATELLITE L735
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/UBUNTU/@boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-BTR_POOL ro rootflags=subvol=UBUNTU/@ rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.blacklist=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: udisks
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-28 (24 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/26/2012
  dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
  dmi.bios.version: 2.50
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
  dmi.board.name: Base Board Product Name
  dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corp.
  dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: OEM Chassis Manufacturer
  dmi.chassis.version: OEM Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr2.50:bd06/26/2012:svnTOSHIBA:pnSATELLITEL735:pvrPSK0CE-00900LFR:rvnIntelCorp.:rnBaseBoardProductName:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnOEMChassisManufacturer:ct10:cvrOEMChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: SATELLITE L735
  dmi.product.version: PSK0CE-00900LFR
  dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

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