ureadahead uses all memory before swap enabled - kills plymouth

[shane]

Binary package hint: ureadahead

The problem determined from this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/609044 originally filed against xserver-xorg-video-intel

Removing the ureadahead package completely results in a normal boot without issues.

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10

apt-cache-policy ureadahead:
ureadahead:
  Installed: 0.100.0-6
  Candidate: 0.100.0-6
  Version table:
 *** 0.100.0-6 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Also included kern.log and syslog

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ureadahead 0.100.0-6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-10.15-generic 2.6.35-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 24 20:09:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100722)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ureadahead

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Duplicate of #590963?

[shane (shane-animail)]

I don't think it a duplicate of bug #590963.
In that one it is reported that boot fails as part of the problem.
In my case it NEVER actually fails to boot.
Also, that is a bug report for 10.04 and mine is 10.10.
Although it may end up being the same problem I think a different ubuntu version brings in too many other variables to take into account.

Incidentally, on my own lucid install, there are no such problems but if I install the lucid version of ureadahead on my maverick install I get the same problems as with the maverick version.

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Only barely different symptoms (boot hasn't failed for you /yet/, but it doesn't always fail in #590963 either), but it's the same bug - ureadahead eats all memory, resulting it it being OOM-killed, along with plymouthd.

I don't see any reason to clutter up the tracker with multiple reports on this one, all that does is tax developer time. Just get Maverick (and the associated ureadahead version) added to the other bug.

[shane (shane-animail)]

Is there any way I can directly merge or add my information from this one into the other bug report?