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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng package

gjs process (desktop-icons-ng extension) eats all available RAM and Freezes Computer

Bug #1926863 reported by Arden Goldberg
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Gnome Shell Extension Desktop Icons Ng
New
Unknown
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Title sums it up. Just upgraded to 21.04 from 20.10, and gjs has now three times eaten all memory and frozen the everything solid.

Some sort of massive memory leak.

I caught a screenshot of it doing it, ticks up about 1/10th GB every few seconds until computer goes bye-bye.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: gjs 1.67.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat May 1 19:22:11 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-05-07 (359 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gjs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-05-01 (0 days ago)

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Arden Goldberg (blinkerfluidreservoir) wrote :
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Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) wrote :

Do you have a reproducer for this?

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Arden Goldberg (blinkerfluidreservoir) wrote :

I'm not quite certain what that means in this context, is a reproducer a script meant to recreate the conditions of the bug?

I have temporarily solved the issue by noting that it seemed to begin when the desktop was first drawn on screen, and running "sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng" and "sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons". This is a bit inconvenient, but functional.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
affects: gjs (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - gjs eats all available RAM and Freezes Computer
+ gjs process (desktop-icons-ng extension) eats all available RAM and
+ Freezes Computer
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng:
status: Unknown → New
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Moshe Kaplan (moshekaplan) wrote :

This issue appears to still be present on Ubuntu 23.04 x64 with package "gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng 46+really47.0.2-3".

As the previous commenter wrote, uninstalling the extension fixed the memory leak:
$ sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
tags: added: lunar
removed: hirsute
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