Bug#1070674: gnome-settings-daemon: No oom-kill notifications

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:23 PM segfault <segfault at riseup.net> wrote:
> The systemd OOM notification functionality of gnome-settings-daemon is broken
> on Debian. On Fedora, a notification is shown when a process is OOM-killed. On
> Debian, it only works after applying the attached patch, which calls the
> Subscribe() method of org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager. It's not clear to me
> why it works without the patch on Fedora.
>
> I also created an issue and MR upstream, but upstream is waiting on a
> confirmation that the systemd behavior (not sending the PropertiesChanged
> signal unless Subscribe() was called) is expected.
>
> Upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-
> daemon/-/issues/790
> Upstream MR: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-
> daemon/-/merge_requests/366

Are you still affected by this issue? I saw OOM notifications in both
Debian Testing and Ubuntu 25.04 yesterday.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha