[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#521651: libpam-ck-connector leak resources for every pam session

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Package: libpam-ck-connector
Version: 0.2.10-5
Severity: important
User:     debian-edu at lists.debian.org
UserTags: debian-edu

According to
<URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/284229 >,
there is a resource leak in consolekit when enabling
libpam-ck-connector , making it use more and more memory and CPU until
it consumes all the system resources in a few days.  It leak resources
every time a new session is created, for example when a cron job is
executed.  So when munin is installed running a cron job every 5
minute, the resources are quickly consumed.

I tested this in Debian Lenny, and the problem is present there.

According to Michael Biebl, the current consolekit package maintainer,
the error is fixed in testing and unstable, and the one-line patch to
solve it can be found at
<URL: http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/consolekit/0.3.0-2/11-unref-dbus-proxy.patch >.

We are enabling this pam module in Debian Edu to make sure console
users get their needed dbus privileges, and thus will be bitten quite
badly by this issue.  Please upload a fixed package in Lenny.

Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen