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Bug 144399

Summary: gnome-system-monitor has empty process name fields
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: James Laska <jlaska>
Component: gnome-system-monitorAssignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: jturner, kem, nixuser, poelstra, tao
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Desktop
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Hardware: powerpc   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0326 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-05-10 22:18:31 UTC Type: ---
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Description James Laska 2005-01-06 19:17:55 UTC 
# TREE rel-eng/RHEL4-re0106.1::AS
# ARCH ppc (power5 IBM sf2)
# PACKAGE gnome-system-monitor-2.7.0-2

See attached screenshot.

This appears to happen only for kernel processes such as:

root         2     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [migration/0]
root         3     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         4     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [migration/1]
root         5     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/1]
root         6     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [migration/2]
root         7     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/2]
root         8     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [migration/3]
root         9     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/3]
root        10     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [events/0]
root        11     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [events/1]
root        12     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [events/2]
root        13     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [events/3]
root        14    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [khelper]
root        46    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root        47    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/1]
root        48    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/2]
root        49    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/3]
root        66    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root        50     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [khubd]
root        65     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [rtasd]
root        67    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root        69    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [aio/0]
root        68     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd0]
root        70    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [aio/1]
root        71    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [aio/2]
root        72    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [aio/3]
root       150    10  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [khvcd]
root       152     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kseriod]
root       214     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [scsi_eh_0]
root       239     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root      1176     1  0 13:31 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
Comment 1 James Laska 2005-01-06 19:17:55 UTC 
Created attachment 109436 [details]
screenshot
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2005-09-29 10:09:35 UTC 
*** Bug 149280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2005-09-29 10:14:25 UTC 
Still occurs on RHEL4. Fixes are in newer gnome-system-monitor.

2004-10-22  Benoît Dejean  <tazforever>

        * src/proctable.c: (get_process_name): Fixed empty process name. This is
       because of a small change in libgtop. If cmdline is empty, libgtop now
        returns "" instead of NULL (this was not documented at all).
        Now : if procargs is NULL or "", the process name is given by procstate,
else
        procargs is parsed.

Patch is at:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/procman/src/proctable.c?r1=1.110&r2=1.111
Comment 12 Steffen Mann 2006-01-30 16:22:50 UTC 
Could we please ensure that the patch from the rejected hotfix will make it into
U4 then.
Comment 15 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2006-04-11 20:49:52 UTC 
Devel ack. Note that this bug is already fixed in the 2.7.0-5 build.
Comment 16 Søren Sandmann Pedersen 2006-04-11 21:00:25 UTC 
Which means it could be fasttracked ...
Comment 22 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-05-10 22:18:31 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0326.html