Bug#772910: mate-settings-daemon: Massive memory leak

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

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On 12/12/2014 10:48 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Thanks for reporting this. I need to check on this. There were
> several upstream commit on various MATE components fixing memory
> leaks, recently. I will ask the upstream author of those patches
> what he thinks about pushing them into Debian jessie.

I'm not sure whether this can be trivially fixed. The problem is that
people are using "su -" to change the user and expect the X session
to change the user as well so that they can use desktop applications
running that new user.

However, the problem is that a desktop applications nowadays do a lot
of interaction using dbus, dconf and so on such that it becomes
problematic to run these from an su session even if you changed
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for the new user which is probably why the systemd
people dropped this feature in the first place. I therefore more
or less agree with Lennart's stance.

So, either these desktop applications should be able to work without
dconf, dbus in a changed environment or users should simply avoid
running these applications as root which is usually a bad idea
in the first place.

I usually use the terminal when working on system files. This way
you're also more aware that you're actually working as root.

Adrian

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