Package: mate-panel Version: 1.20.5-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Memory leak in mate-panel_1.20.5-1_i386 * What led up to the situation? Normal desktop usage leading to hanging desktop processes and a crash * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? HUPing the process causes a reload of the process, clearing its excessive memory usage. Attempting to update mate-panel from the Buster back-ports and proposed-updates repositories resulted in a 'mate-panel is already the newest version (1.20.5-1).' message. * What was the outcome of this action? After HUPing, resetting memory usage, the process resumes gobbling memory. HUPing the process also resets the placement of all Task Bar icons to their chronological order, not the order they have been manually rearranged or moved to. * What outcome did you expect instead? Normal mate-panel memory usage. An earlier bug report on this issue #966292 was closed six months ago on 12 Aug 2020 with the note: "fixed in the latest version of mate-panel, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive" But this fix does not yet appear to be available to the Buster release as it is not in proposed-updates or back-ports repositories. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-11-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages mate-panel depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.30.1-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4+deb10u1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.20-0+deb10u1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4 ii libdconf1 0.30.1-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 ii libmate-desktop-2-17 1.20.4-2 ii libmate-menu2 1.20.2-1 ii libmate-panel-applet-4-1 1.20.5-1 ii libmateweather1 1.20.2-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-8~deb10u1 ii librda0 0.0.5-1 ii librsvg2-2 2.44.10-2.1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6 ii libwnck-3-0 3.30.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1+deb10u1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii mate-desktop 1.20.4-2 ii mate-menus 1.20.2-1 ii mate-panel-common 1.20.5-1 ii mate-polkit 1.20.2-1 ii menu-xdg 0.6 mate-panel recommends no packages. mate-panel suggests no packages. -- no debconf information