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Bug#396410: marked as done (grdesktop eats all memory and freezes the whole system)

Your message dated Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:46:30 -0500
with message-id <20071112134630.GB7243@connexer.com>
and subject line Closing at request of submitter
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: grdesktop
Version: 0.23-2+b1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

When I launch grdesktop, it eats up the whole memory of my machine 
(1 GB) whithin one or two seconds and freezes the whole system, forcing me 
to do a hard reset. This happens *immediately* after starting grdesktop and
before the grdesktop UI appears. 

I can't say if it is the fault of grdesktop itself, or of rdesktop.
tsclient and rdesktop itself sometimes also freeze the machine, but
this seems to be another bug, because I can't see them eating up the
memory before the freeze happens (of course I could be wrong here, I
don't know for sure).

I really don't know how to find out which component is really
responsible for this bug. It might be rdesktop or grdesktop.

Another curious thing is, that it only happens on one etch machine out of
two (which runs totally stable apart of the grdesktop problem).
On the other one, grdesktop works as expected.

As a side note, I am running the Gnome desktop on a plain X server
without compositing. I am able to reproduce the bug with the nvidia and
the nv driver.

Thanks
Adalbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages grdesktop depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.3-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-2      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.14.0-5      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-4   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.2.4-4       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1             2.4.1-2       generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.0-2      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.4-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          0.4.9-1       GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             2.14.2-2+b1   GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    1:1.0.1-2     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.0-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.7-1      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                     1:1.0.1-3     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.7-4       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.1-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:4.0.1-4     X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.1-3     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.26.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-4   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.1-3     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  rdesktop                   1.5.0-1       RDP client for Windows NT/2000 Ter
ii  scrollkeeper               0.3.14-11     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.3-13    compression library - runtime

grdesktop recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
The submitter wrote:

> I found out that this particular (mis)behaviour of grdesktop was not
> the fault of grdesktop itself, but a shellscript that I had created
> some time ago and then forgotten. In fact, the script was calling
> itself recursively and thus killing the machine within a few seconds.
> Really stupid thing...
> 
> So, please close this bug.

So, I am closing the bug.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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