Bug 1063709

Would be nice to get the patch from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671538#c15 in the mingw-gtk2 package as this can be hit with mingw-remote-viewer which is built using mingw-gtk2 from fedora.


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1000738 +++

Description of problem:
remote-viewer randomly crashes when using Windows x64 package

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.5.7 x64 build

How reproducible:
Nothing specific.  Used long enough remote-viewer crashes.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. None

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Windows host details
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 6.1.7601 x64

Linux host details
Fedora 19 x86_64, 3.10.9
libvirt 1.0.5.5-1
qemu-kvm 1.4.2-7
virt-manager 0.10.0-1

Using QXL/spice, latest spice guest tools installed in Windows guest (0.59)
Local virt-manager session does not crash
remote-viewer session running on Linux to same VM does not crash

--- Additional comment from  on 2013-08-25 00:59:29 EDT ---



--- Additional comment from  on 2013-08-25 01:09:47 EDT ---



--- Additional comment from  on 2013-08-25 01:12:20 EDT ---

After further investigation, there appears appears to be a memory leak which is why the crash is random.  remote-viewer process will get to approx. 500MB and then crash.

--- Additional comment from Benjamin Reiter on 2013-12-12 10:00:05 EST ---

I can confirm this bug. Remote-Viewer.exe crashes after a while due to high memory consumption. Easily reproducible by opening the theme selection on a Windows 7 guest and cycling between the themes "Windows 7" and "Windows Classic".

Is there a workaround or fix available?

Guest-OS is Windows 7 x64
Remote-Viewer Client x64 on OS Windows 7 x64

--- Additional comment from Benjamin Reiter on 2014-02-03 13:30:32 EST ---

This is still happening with version 0.6.0. Both x32 and x64.

--- Additional comment from Markus Stockhausen on 2014-02-09 12:17:52 EST ---

VNC sessions seem to be affected by this bug too.  The easiest way I could reproduce the bug was opening a window in the windows VM. Afterwards just click on the taskbar icon to open/close the window cyclically. It takes only a minute  to raise the crash.

Most important: In my environment the bug shows up only when using 16bpp depth on the client. So at least one part of the problem should be this: 

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671538

--- Additional comment from Christophe Fergeau on 2014-02-11 04:23:24 EST ---

Guess we should pull this fix in the mingw-gtk2 package even if it does not make it upstream...