[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#488604: NetworkManager: Memory Leak

[Mark Purcell]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-1
Followup-For: Bug #488604

severity 488604 critical
forwarded 488604 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/network-manager/+bug/203016
tags 488604 fixed-upstream patch confirmed

Hi,

This is causing major usability problems and makes unrelated software on
the system unstable as it sucks all available memory, thus i've 
upgraded to severity to critical.


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
20099 root      20   0  321m 161m 1580 S  0.0 32.1   1:41.98 NetworkManager

Mark

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: wlan0_rename ----------------------------------------------------------------
  NM Path:           /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/wlan0_5f_rename
  Type:              802.11 Wireless
  Driver:            b43-pci-bridge
  Active:            yes
  HW Address:        00:14:51:81:54:83

  Capabilities:
    Supported:       yes
    Speed:           54 Mb/s

  Wireless Settings
    Scanning:        yes
    WEP Encryption:  yes
    WPA Encryption:  yes
    WPA2 Encryption: yes

  Wireless Networks (* = Current Network)
    *pos:            Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.437 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 51%
    ianyoung:        Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.412 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 51%, Encrypted (WPA)
    TAYLOR:          Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.412 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 45%, Encrypted (WPA)
    WLAN:            Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.437 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 40%, Encrypted (WEP)
    abbie:           Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.412 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 48%, Encrypted (WPA WPA2)
    BigPond9239:     Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.417 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 40%, Encrypted (WPA)
    SpeedStream4738: Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.432 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 33%, Encrypted (WEP)
    DLINK:           Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.437 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 45%, Encrypted (WPA)
    AMAN:            Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.437 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 33%, Encrypted (WEP)
    Green:           Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.412 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 35%, Encrypted (WEP)
    womble:          Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.452 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 33%, Encrypted (WEP)
    AMB Network:     Infrastructure Mode, Freq 2.422 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 38%, Encrypted (WPA WPA2)
    WASC-0016415fc99d-PHILIPS: Ad-Hoc Mode, Freq 2.462 MHz, Rate 62 Mb/s, Strength 35%, Encrypted (WEP)

  IP Settings:
    IP Address:      192.168.1.114
    Subnet Mask:     255.255.255.0
    Broadcast:       192.168.1.255
    Gateway:         192.168.1.1
    Primary DNS:     192.168.1.150
    Secondary DNS:   0.0.0.0


- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
  NM Path:           /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth0
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            gem
  Active:            no
  HW Address:        00:14:51:21:84:4E

  Capabilities:
    Supported:       yes
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           10 Mb/s

  Wired Settings
    Hardware Link:   no


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.108        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.1-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-4        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.11-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8+nmu1   high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20080417-1   networking and traffic control too
ii  iputils-arping              3:20071127-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.7-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.1-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.76-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.4.1-1      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.3-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.11-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29-1         Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                      1.1-2        library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.6-1      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-12       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.3-2      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM
ii  network-manager-kde           1:0.2.2-1  KDE systray applet for controlling

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