Bug#982919: mate-panel: Memory leak. Memory use steadily grows until OOM trips
Package: mate-panel
Version: 1.20.5-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Memory leak in mate-panel_1.20.5-1_i386
* What led up to the situation?
Normal desktop usage leading to hanging desktop processes and a crash
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
HUPing the process causes a reload of the process, clearing its
excessive memory usage.
Attempting to update mate-panel from the Buster back-ports and
proposed-updates repositories resulted in a 'mate-panel is already
the newest version (1.20.5-1).' message.
* What was the outcome of this action?
After HUPing, resetting memory usage, the process resumes
gobbling memory.
HUPing the process also resets the placement of all Task Bar
icons to their chronological order, not the order they have
been manually rearranged or moved to.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Normal mate-panel memory usage.
An earlier bug report on this issue #966292 was closed six months ago
on 12 Aug 2020 with the note:
"fixed in the latest version of mate-panel, which is due to be
installed in the Debian FTP archive"
But this fix does not yet appear to be available to the Buster release
as it is not in proposed-updates or back-ports repositories.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.8
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages mate-panel depends on:
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-0+deb10u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4
ii libdconf1 0.30.1-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.20.4-2
ii libmate-menu2 1.20.2-1
ii libmate-panel-applet-4-1 1.20.5-1
ii libmateweather1 1.20.2-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii librda0 0.0.5-1
ii librsvg2-2 2.44.10-2.1
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libwnck-3-0 3.30.0-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii mate-desktop 1.20.4-2
ii mate-menus 1.20.2-1
ii mate-panel-common 1.20.5-1
ii mate-polkit 1.20.2-1
ii menu-xdg 0.6
mate-panel recommends no packages.
mate-panel suggests no packages.
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