Bug#523238: gnome-power-manager: consumes all available memory

Stephen P. Williams stephen_p_williams at pacbell.net
Thu Apr 9 00:51:36 UTC 2009


Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.22.1-4
Severity: important


Three times now since my machine updated to g-p-m 2.22.1-4, I have had it bring
my laptop (Dell Latitude D820) to its knees, consuming all available memory.
Every time, it has been associated with a change in the AC status.  

This afternoon, my laptop was plugged into AC power when the power went out for
about a minute.  I was at the keyboard just prior to the power outage and
everything was normal.  When I got back to the machine about 5 minutes after
power was restored, the system was almost completely non-responsive, thrashing
like crazy, and top showed g-p-m to be using well over 1.3 GBytes of virtual
memory.

I had to manually kill the g-p-m process.


-- Package-specific info:
Distro version:       5.0
Kernel version:       2.6.26-1-686
g-p-m version:        2.22.1
HAL version:          0.5.11
System manufacturer:  missing
System version:       missing
System product:       missing
AC adapter present:   yes
Battery present:      yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present:  yes
Battery Information:
  battery.charge_level.current = 50804  (0xc674)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 86580  (0x15234)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 57353  (0xe009)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 88  (0x58)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 19758  (0x4d2e)  (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true  (bool)
  battery.model = 'DELL YD6237'  (string)
  battery.present = true  (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = true  (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false  (bool)
  battery.remaining_time = 1193  (0x4a9)  (int)
  battery.reporting.current = 4577  (0x11e1)  (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 7800  (0x1e78)  (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 5167  (0x142f)  (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 1780  (0x6f4)  (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion'  (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh'  (string)
  battery.serial = '2047'  (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion'  (string)
  battery.type = 'primary'  (string)
  battery.vendor = 'SMP'  (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 12762  (0x31da)  (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 11100  (0x2b5c)  (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV'  (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
HAL Process Information:
104       3555  0.0  0.1   6180  1912 ?        Ss   10:38   0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
root      3556  0.0  0.0   3296   908 ?        S    10:38   0:00  \_ hald-runner
root      3593  0.0  0.0   3364   796 ?        S    10:38   0:00      \_ hald-ad
104       3596  0.0  0.0   2304   748 ?        S    10:38   0:00      \_ hald-ad
root      3609  0.0  0.0   3364   772 ?        S    10:38   0:01      \_ hald-ad

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (850, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-x11               1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  hal                    0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.12-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-3            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.3-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.0-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.3-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.22-2         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.0-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-8          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.17-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-5          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-2          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2+lenny2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libwnck22              2.22.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2-1           X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.4-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.3.0-2         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  notification-daemon    0.3.7-1+b1        a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

gnome-power-manager suggests no packages.

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