Ubuntu
dbus package

dbus-monitor crashes whole system

Bug #1300742 reported by Markus Vuori on 2014-04-01

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dbus (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

I tried couple of commands:

dbus-monitor --profile "interface=org.gnome.Screensaver"

and

dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver',member='ActiveChanged'"

Both of them cause a system crash within 5 - 20 seconds. I can't change vt or log in via ssh. Mouse pointer does not move.

Once I managed to switch to vt1 before crash, and I managed to take a photo.

Kernel version:
Linux litebook 3.13.0-19-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 24 02:37:00 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 14.04 Beta 2 (updated today) and dbus-1.6.18-0ubuntu3

dmidecode says this is a MacBookPro6,2 ( 8 GB RAM, 2 GB swap, no apps running except gnome-terminal and normal ubuntu unity desktop)

I suppose the problem is due to excessive logging and/or forking?

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Markus Vuori (lite-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2014-04-01:

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Markus Vuori (lite-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2014-04-01:

Something from the syslog

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2014-04-01:

I was unable to recreate this on an Ubuntu Trusty install with dbus version 1.6.18-0ubuntu3.

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Markus Vuori (lite-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2014-04-04:

OK. I reinstalled whole OS and the problem seems to be gone. However, software should never behave like it did.

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