** Description changed:
[ Impact ]
- * The indicator-keyboard-service process suffers from a memory leak
+ * The indicator-keyboard-service process suffers from a memory leak
that quickly consumes the entire available memory of the system until
the process is killed by the OOM daemon. Since indicator-keyboard is a
session service it will be restarted and the process repeats, making the
system unusable. On the system where I tested this indicator-keyboard-
service started with ~2MB and quickly rose to consume all 64GB of
memory. The session then appears to hang for about a minute until the
OOM daemon kills the process.
[ Test Plan ]
- * Prerequisites:
- - A running gnome-session-flashback XOrg session
+ * Prerequisites:
+ - A running gnome-session-flashback XOrg session
- * Ensure you have multiple input sources configured, for example:
- $ dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/sources
- [('xkb', 'us'), ('ibus', 'libpinyin')]
+ * Ensure you have multiple input sources configured, for example:
+ $ dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/sources
+ [('xkb', 'us'), ('ibus', 'libpinyin')]
- * Start indicator-keyboard-service via:
- $ indicator-keyboard-service --use-gtk
+ * Start indicator-keyboard-service via:
+ $ indicator-keyboard-service --use-gtk
- * Watch the memory consumption to raise quickly and consume all
+ * Watch the memory consumption to raise quickly and consume all
available memory until it is being killed by the OOM daemon.
+ [ Where problems could occur ]
- [ Regression Potential ]
-
- * The regression potential is very low since indicator-keyboard-service
+ * The regression potential is very low since indicator-keyboard-service
is already suffering from a memory leak that is causing it to be killed
by the OOM daemon every few minutes. It is unlikely that this change
will make the problem worse.
- * User base of indicator-keyboard is low. The main users of this
+ * User base of indicator-keyboard is low. The main users of this
package are Unity and Gnome Flashback and both are not default desktops
on Ubuntu. Gnome Shell does not depend on indicator-keyboard. So a
potential regression would only affect users of these desktops.
- * The source code changes include the removal of a redundant
+ * The source code changes include the removal of a redundant
initialization of IBus in two functions of indicator-keyboard-service
and instead move the initialization to the constructor of the indicator
keyboard service. No new functionality is added and the existing
behavior of the application is not changes except for consolidation of
the redundant IBus initialization calls.
- * On GNOME Flashback another workaround exists in case there is an
+ * On GNOME Flashback another workaround exists in case there is an
unexpected regression due to this chaneg. In the unlikely event that the
change has a side effect and prevents the indicator from working, users
an switch to the newer "System Indicators" applet and remove the
indicator-keyboard package completely.
NEWS
The fix is available in version 0.0.0+19.10.20240924-0ubuntu1
=== Original Description ===
Description:
The system was previously on 22.04, then upgraded to 23.10 to the
current daily 24.04. System will freeze up a few minutes after startup
(with no apparent related crashes). After various trial and error, the
possible cause is isolated to indicator-keyboard when running gnome-
session-flashback (freeze does not happen anymore with flashback
interface, after indicator-keyboard package is removed). Not sure why
this is not happening with vanilla gdm3. Also, the freeze was first
observed after the upgrade to 23.10.
**logs below taken from `sudo journalctl --since "3 hours ago" | grep
indicator`**
Feb 29 16:49:03 machine kernel:
oom-kill:constraint=CONSTRAINT_NONE,nodemask=(null),cpuset=user.slice,mems_allowed=0,global_oom,task_memcg=/user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/indicator-keyboard.service,task=indicator-keybo,pid=5810,uid=1000
Feb 29 16:49:03 machine kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 5810
(indicator-keybo) total-vm:66620172kB, anon-rss:64296784kB, file-rss:768kB,
shmem-rss:0kB, UID:1000 pgtables:129412kB oom_score_adj:200
Feb 29 16:49:03 machine kernel: oom_reaper: reaped process 5810
(indicator-keybo), now anon-rss:688kB, file-rss:768kB, shmem-rss:0kB
Feb 29 16:48:56 machine systemd[5304]: indicator-keyboard.service: A process
of this unit has been killed by the OOM killer.
Feb 29 16:48:57 machine systemd[5304]: indicator-keyboard.service: Main
process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
Feb 29 16:48:57 machine systemd[5304]: indicator-keyboard.service: Failed
with result 'oom-kill'.
Feb 29 16:48:57 machine systemd[5304]: indicator-keyboard.service: Consumed
1min 11.913s CPU time.
Feb 29 16:48:58 machine systemd[5304]: indicator-keyboard.service: Scheduled
restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Feb 29 16:48:58 machine systemd[5304]: Started indicator-keyboard.service -
Indicator Keyboard Backend.
Feb 29 17:00:40 machine dbus-daemon[1111]: [system] Activating via systemd:
service name='org.freedesktop.login1'
unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.login1.service' requested by ':1.9' (uid=0 pid=1588
comm="apt remove indicator-keyboard" label="unconfined")
** Also affects: indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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suspected memory leak with indicator-keyboard (causing gnome-session-
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