Created attachment 705855 [details] gdb backtrace from crashed xfce4-session Description of problem: Since the gnome desktop suffers so huge instability, it has forced me to go with xfce desktop. However xfce seems to be doing as well pretty often in its default settings. After some 'research' - there seems to be 'hotfix' - 'G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly /bin/xfce4-session' Setting G_SLICE & G_DEBUG appears to make xfce4-session stable again. This makes me thinking the actual bug is not in xfce4 but in glib2. Unfortunately usage of valgrind has not yet revealed the problem - it seems there is some hidden complexity which hides the code from being executed via valgring - and tracing all children runs quickly into OOM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glib2-2.35.8-1.fc19.x86_64 xfce4-session-4.10.0-6.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. run xfce4-session without G_SLICE 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891113 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=865539 and https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9709 I only see this sporadically here, but it's anoying for sure. ;(
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
*** Bug 951229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 951834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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