gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands/millions of entries with stack traces ending in osdWindow.js (lines 206/207 in bionic, lines 223/224 in cosmic)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) |
Bug Description
[Impact]
I'm seeing a several gigs (more than 70GB) a day of org.gnome.
https:/
[Test Case]
With 2 monitors connected, simply lock the screen and leave it locked for a while. The error messages will be logged into syslog until all the empty space is filled up.
More info:
https:/
[Regression Potential]
Low. The fix (https:/
[Original Description]
I'm seeing a several gigs (more than 70GB) a day of the following entries on syslog:
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 gnome-shell[1469]: Object St.Icon (0x557eca1b2e90), has been already finalized. Impossible to set any property to it.
May 21 23:54:55 fc553042 org.gnome.
gnome-shell:
Installed: 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
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ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.shell' b'enabled-
b'org.gnome.shell' b'app-picker-view' b'uint32 1'
b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' redacted by apport
b'org.
b'org.
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-24 (211 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-03 (20 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
description: | updated |
summary: |
- gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands of entries + gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands of entries (stack traces + ending in osdWindow.js:206/207) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
summary: |
- gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands of entries with stack - traces ending in osdWindow.js (lines 206/207 in bionic, lines 223/224 in - cosmic) + gnome-shell filling up syslog with thousands/millions of entries with + stack traces ending in osdWindow.js (lines 206/207 in bionic, lines + 223/224 in cosmic) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
status: | Fix Released → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: multimonitor |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → In Progress |
tags: |
added: verification-done-bionic verification-needed removed: verification-bionic verification-done |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
status: | In Progress → Won't Fix |
no longer affects: | gnome-shell (Ubuntu Cosmic) |
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