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gnome-software package

gnome-software process does not quit after closing application window

Bug #1644830 reported by Andreas E. on 2016-11-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1616332: gnome-software using hundreds of MB of memory when not in use. Edit Remove

This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-software (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Gnome-system-monitor shows a process "gnome-software" that continues running after the application window has been closed. The process constantly takes 100–200MB RAM and was not there after boot/login.

Observed behavior:
Process does not quit after quitting the application window, although it is neither used nor does it seem to give any other noticeable benefit from the reserved memory.

Expected behavior:
After closing the application window, it's process ends.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gnome-software 3.20.1+git20161003.0.7ac7d1b-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-27.29-generic 4.8.1
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Nov 25 14:05:31 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-05 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: gnome-software
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Andreas E. (andreas-e) wrote on 2016-11-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (10.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (176.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (328 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-04-21:

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

Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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asdqweasd (asdqweasd) wrote on 2017-07-12:

This bug happens to me on Ubuntu 17.04 also. It seems that memory consumption never decreases, making things even worse (related bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1616332).