udisks-daemon ate all system memory, then crashed system

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

Hi,

After I tried to use the "USB startup disk creator", it crashed formatting the USB key.

Afterwards my system went writing to disk forever and became unresponsive.

It eventually ended up to a text terminal stating that udisks-daemon ate all memory and the kernel started killing tasks, then the system froze to death, with the disk still endlessly working.

In the end I had no way but using the MagicSysRq to reboot...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: udisks 1.0.4-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
CustomUdevRuleFiles: 10-vboxdrv.rules
Date: Fri Sep 21 11:14:15 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MachineType: TOSHIBA SATELLITE L735
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/UBUNTU/@boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/VG1-BTR_POOL ro rootflags=subvol=UBUNTU/@ rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.blacklist=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: udisks
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-28 (24 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/26/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: INSYDE
dmi.bios.version: 2.50
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Base Board Product Name
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.board.version: Base Board Version
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: OEM Chassis Manufacturer
dmi.chassis.version: OEM Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnINSYDE:bvr2.50:bd06/26/2012:svnTOSHIBA:pnSATELLITEL735:pvrPSK0CE-00900LFR:rvnIntelCorp.:rnBaseBoardProductName:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnOEMChassisManufacturer:ct10:cvrOEMChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: SATELLITE L735
dmi.product.version: PSK0CE-00900LFR
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SweX (swexru)]

experienced the same trouble with usb-creator-kde.

[Guy Ratajczak (2g4c9zx37)]

I confirm. Same trouble with usb-creator.

When I try to erase a disk, udisks-helper-m and udisks-daemon use 100% processor ressources.
Then I have this message :
"org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
And there is a huge memory consumption increasing until the system froze.

[Rudolf Leitgeb (rudolf-leitgeb)]

Same thing here, total memory consumed by udisks-daemon seems to correlate with size of USB stick to be formatted. There has to be a less memory consuming way to format an 8GB USB stick, yes?

[Herczeg Zsolt (herczegzsolt)]

What causes this stupid bug? It makes USB creator totally useless.

(However it's not related to pendrive size. It happens with me even with 4 or 32 Gb drives

[Nathan J. Brauer (nathanbrauer)]

I stumbled on this today as well. 8GB drive.

1. Clicked "Erase Disk"
2. After a LONG time, it seemed to not be doing anything, so I quit the application (with the "X" button, not a kill; no error was given.)
3. Formatted the drive via "Disks" application.
4. Re-opened Startup Disk Creator and successfully wrote to the disk.
5. Put my machine in standby
6. Woke up this morning, turned on the computer and after 15-30 minutes, computer started lagging. Checked processes and found udisk-* eating up all my memory and 1/4 of my Swap.

[Nathan J. Brauer (nathanbrauer)]

Killing the process saved my system from crashing (but it almost crashed before I could kill it).