Bug#895990: gdm3: memory leak (known upstream)
Dennis Grunert
itmadm at itm.uni-stuttgart.de
Wed Apr 18 12:23:51 BST 2018
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.22.3-3+deb9u1
Severity: critical
Tags: upstream
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
the gdm3 process has a memory leak which continuously consumes more and
more memory until the OOM killer renders the system unusable. Therefore,
this bug was tagged as critical. Up to 10 GB memory usage of gdm3 were
observered until we killed the process to prevent further problems. From
our 59 identical systems, 3 suffered from this leak in the past days.
This bug is known upstream, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1672297
Comment 66 of the above bug report includes fixes for the upstream
packages. Please backport them to Debian stable.
Kind regards
Dennis Grunert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.43-1
ii adduser 3.115
ii cinnamon [x-window-manager] 3.2.7-4
ii cinnamon-session [x-session-manager] 3.2.0-4
ii dconf-cli 0.26.0-2+b1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.26.0-2+b1
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.61
ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.22.3-3+deb9u1
ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.22.3-1
ii gnome-session-bin 3.22.3-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.22.2-2+deb9u2
ii gnome-shell 3.22.3-3
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.22.2-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1
ii i3-wm [x-window-manager] 4.13-1
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:16.12.0-4
ii kwin-x11 [x-window-manager] 4:5.8.6-1
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.43-1
ii libaudit1 1:2.6.7-2
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-3
ii libcanberra0 0.30-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2+deb9u2
ii libgdm1 3.22.3-3+deb9u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.50.3-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1
ii libkeyutils1 1.5.9-9
ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.6
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.6
ii libpam-systemd 232-25+deb9u3
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii librsvg2-common 2.40.16-1+b1
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3
ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u3
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-26
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1
ii libxcb1 1.12-1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii lsb-base 9.20161125
ii lxsession [x-session-manager] 0.5.3-2
ii lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.3.0-2
ii muffin [x-window-manager] 3.2.1-2
ii mutter [x-window-manager] 3.22.3-2
ii openbox [x-window-manager] 3.6.1-4
ii openbox-lxde-session [x-session-manager] 0.99.2-3
ii plasma-workspace [x-session-manager] 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1
ii policykit-1 0.105-18
ii ucf 3.0036
ii x11-common 1:7.7+19
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7+b1
ii xfce4-session [x-session-manager] 4.12.1-5
ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.8.3-1
ii xfwm4 [x-window-manager] 4.12.4-1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 327-2
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi2-core 2.22.0-6+deb9u1
ii desktop-base 9.0.2+deb9u1
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3+b1
pn xserver-xephyr <none>
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+19
ii zenity 3.22.0-1+b1
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn gnome-orca <none>
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.20.0-3
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