gnome-app-install memory leak (was: [apport] gnome-app-install crashed with OSError in _execute_child())

[miked]

Binary package hint: gnome-app-install

Clicking on packages in the add/remove applications menu.
(Feisty Fawn Alpha 7.04 Herd3 i386.iso)

ProblemType: Crash
Date: Thu Feb 15 02:11:05 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-app-install
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: gnome-app-install 0.3.19
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gnome-app-install
ProcCwd: /root
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gnome-app-install']
SourcePackage: gnome-app-install
Uname: Linux ubuntu704ah3 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

It looks like g-a-i has a memory leaak on re-opening the cache. The ProcMaps show a bunch of:
6f4e0000-6fe67000 r--s 00000000 fe:00 558099 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted)
77d8d000-78714000 r--s 00000000 fe:00 558104 /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin (deleted)

that memory seems to get not returned for some reason.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This should be fixed with the upload of 0.3.22.

Please reopen if you experience this problem again.

Thanks,
 MIchael