Use high ram memory by the gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect

[Emanuele]

It always happens, is it normal to use all this memory for an extension?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect 20-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jan 22 18:50:27 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-29 (267 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180421.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Andrew Piziali (bj7u6139zdy-andy)]

When I enable GSConnect version 28 (as reported by GSConnect > About) in Tweaks > Extensions > GSConnect, after a while my Ubuntu 18.04 system becomes unresponsive, with the disk activity light solidly on. With it disabled, the system never becomes unresponsive.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

This package should be removed from the archive. Version 20 is very old, since Jan 2019, and not compatible with gnome-shell any more.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) reached end-of-life on January 23, 2020.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in.

[ulrich (k-mail-q)]

One of the Duplicates of this bug is for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/+bug/1951731

[ulrich (k-mail-q)]

There is a issue open on the GitHub page:
https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/1189

[ulrich (k-mail-q)]

Also:
https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/1138
Some Movement yesterday:
https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/1028

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

If that's the case, let's target to series since the issue is not likely to be fixed in non-LTS releases and, by default, the current development version is what the bug is about. However, I'm not sure it's been verified in Jammy, and haven't experienced it myself. Therefore, we're confirming this for Focal, still New for Jammy, and we won't fix for Hirsute since it reaches EOL at the end of this month, and this type of thing isn't likely to make it in Impish since that's not an LTS.

Additionally, I can probably update to the latest version for Jammy for compatibility reasons, but it's not likely to get an SRU.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

The version in the Ubuntu archive is incompatible with gnome-shell from Ubuntu 20.04 and higher.

Install GSConnect from the GNOME extensions website.

[Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer)]

I just uploaded v48 to the Jammy archive. As it seems to have a commit [1] that has fixed this issue, so I'm marking this as Fix Released.

Unfortunately, this cannot be backported to earlier releases, so I'm going to have to close this bug as "Won't Fix" for those releases.

[1] https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/pull/1233