gnome-settings-daemon leaks memory / 100+ percent cpu

[SlugiusRex]

gnome-settings-daemon leaks memory ( adds about 1 MB per minute )

Observed process use 100% + CPU utilization on one core for more than 30 minutes. Memory grew from about 200 MB to 390 MB during this 30 minute period.

Process status was reported as "Sleeping/futex_wait_queme_me". However, as soon as I typed 'ubuntu-bug' in the terminal it switched to Running ~ and then dropped its CPU usage to 60% and gave back 100MB of memory.

Then while typing this comment here.... it went back up to 102% and started consuming memory again.

See attached screenshot

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.2.2-0ubuntu2.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 28 12:01:07 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

BTW the reason I post this is because I cant logout using gnome. (see CannotLogout Screenshot).

Also, I had VMware running ( but no VM was currently active )

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you get a gdb stacktrace? is the numlock status changing when that happens? seems similar to bug #969359

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

It is definitely the same as #483719 - which is classified as a duplicate of #969359.

So should I mark as duplicate?

I cannot reproduce. If it happens again I will obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report.