system-monitor extension is flooding syslog
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell-extension-system-monitor (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
/var/log/syslog is flooded with messages of this kind (once per second), making the log grow at a rate of > 4KB/s or about 350MB per day:
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby gnome-shell[1725]: message repeated 3 times: [ Object Gio.Settings (0x559de3638920), has been already deallocated - impossible to access to it. This might be caused by the fact that the object has been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs]
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby gnome-shell[1725]: Object Gio.Settings (0x559de3638920), has been already deallocated - impossible to access to it. This might be caused by the fact that the object has been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby org.gnome.
Aug 11 15:10:49 Dobby gnome-shell[1725]: Object Gio.Settings (0x559de3638920), has been already deallocated - impossible to access to it. This might be caused by the fact that the object has been destroyed from C code using something such as destroy(), dispose(), or remove() vfuncs
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-shell-
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-rc7+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Aug 11 15:03:06 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-23 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Some related info I found online:
Github bug report: https:/ /github. com/paradoxxxze ro/gnome- shell-system- monitor- applet/ issues/ 447 /github. com/paradoxxxze ro/gnome- shell-system- monitor- applet/ commit/ 2efb9d1248e7194 74eab91d92d0905 f5d3e1d25c
Patch linked by the above: https:/