Bug 683279

abrt version: 1.1.14
architecture: i686
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: nautilus --sm-client-id 1010eaf64f6a8dd0f9128356862072663400000265000049 --sm-client-state-file /home/wbaker/.config/session-state/nautilus-1297050625.state
component: nautilus
crash_function: nautilus_window_get_active_slot
executable: /usr/bin/nautilus
kernel: 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.i686.PAE
package: nautilus-2.30.1-6.fc13
rating: 4
reason: Process /usr/bin/nautilus was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
time: 1299626511
uid: 500

comment
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This report is about nautilus crashing.  The rest is color.

This is not reproducible but is a symptom of being logged in for many days and weeks.


The nm-applet grows without bounds and sooner or later exhausts memory.
The workaround is to kill & restart it.


Nautilus seems to grow as well, but it crashes frequently enough that it doesn't hang onto its "lost" memory for long enough to cause problems.



After the incident settled out, the big things on my machine are:

In the output of ps, field ten (10) is the "size"

$ ps -lef | sort -n -k 10
 S wbaker   25484 12176  1  80   0 - 70211 poll_s 15:33 ?        00:00:14 nautilus --sm-client-id 1010eaf64f6a8dd0f9128356862072663400000265000049 --sm-client-state-file /home/wbaker/.config/session-state/nautilus-1297050625.state
0 S wbaker   12831     1  0  80   0 - 74410 poll_s Feb06 ?        00:00:55 /usr/libexec/clock-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=42
0 S wbaker   12471 12176  0  80   0 - 78503 poll_s Feb06 ?        00:33:53 pidgin --session 101a37ab86d252c6d812812973279051400000023010055 --display :0.0
0 S wbaker   12409 12176  0  80   0 - 98804 poll_s Feb06 ?        00:19:01 gnome-panel --sm-client-id 1010eaf64f6a8dd0f9128356862071974500000265000048
0 S wbaker   12827     1  0  80   0 - 124129 poll_s Feb06 ?       01:50:31 /usr/bin/gnote --panel-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GnoteApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=27
0 S wbaker   19445 19434  0  80   0 - 215792 poll_s Mar06 ?       00:12:20 /usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/scalc.bin -calc file:///borg/bakers/somefile.ods
0 S wbaker    8957     1  0  80   0 - 226268 poll_s Feb10 ?       02:21:50 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gwibber
0 S wbaker   12365 12348 16  80   0 - 307084 poll_s 11:13 ?       00:45:35 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox
0 S wbaker   30667 30663  7  80   0 - 442219 poll_s Mar04 ?       06:26:06 /usr/lib/thunderbird-3.1/thunderbird-bin
0 S wbaker   20426     1  0  80   0 - 534168 poll_s Feb07 ?       00:15:22 gnucash

How to reproduce
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... the disk is running constantly and intermittently ; lots of pressure on memory

1. nautilus
2. nm-applet is on the panel
3. doing various work
4. sftp://USER/Administration/Stuff   (sftp into another account on another machine)
5. drag & drop a pdf file

... now the disk runs constantly.   swapping, kcryptd constantly running.  The load is 6+ and the machine is unuseable.

nm-applet is ~2+ GB (it has a known? core leak)

... kill that, restart that ...

... the disk is still running ... nautilus still isn't redrawing on the desktop or in a window

nautilus is 800MB 

... see the crash...