gnome-software stall remains in RAM after closure on Xubuntu

Bug #1656347 reported by Galen Thurber
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Run gnome-software 3.20.1
close program.
Program remains in memory 245-251MiB RAM used.
Expect program to end when closed.
Program can also stall installing programs and will interfere with synaptic & apt-get with a database lock.

Also apport-bug will not allow reporting, it reports this error:
The problem cannot be reported:
This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.

 lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:printing-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:printing-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

Galen Thurber (godfree2)
tags: added: gnome-software
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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