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anki package

Anki eats all memory and crashes system

Bug #830813 reported by Nicholas Christian Langkjær Ipsen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
anki (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

What happened: When trying to start Anki, the harddisk started working very hard, and everything became unresponsive for a few minutes. Once the harddisk stopped moving, I opened htop to find the X now consumed 53% of my 4GB of ram! Also, everything was still very unresponsive. Killing X and logging in again returned everything to normal.

What should have happened: Anki should simply have started.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: anki 1.2.8-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 22 11:09:44 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: anki
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nicholas Christian Langkjær Ipsen (ncli) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for you report. I confirm this behaviour. Anki consumes all available memory till system crashes

Changed in anki (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Anki crashes X
+ Anki eats all memory and crashes system
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Antono Vasiljev (antono) wrote :

Same here. Intel video, Ubuntu Oneiric.

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Mark Everitt (mark-s-everitt) wrote :

I've got this too issue too. Oneiric, nvidia card, gnome-shell.

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Mark Everitt (mark-s-everitt) wrote :

A quick fix for this seems to be:

Install qt4-qtconfig.
Run it and select a GUI Style that is not the default or GTK+. Motif seems to work nicely.
Delete the .anki folder in your home directory (but save your decks somewhere).
Run Anki. To be safe perhaps remove Anki and reinstall it first.

This is obviously not a proper fix, but Anki will run. This isn't my solution. I found it on a forum somewhere (sorry, can't remember the location). I hope this works well enough for people who rely on Anki to get it running.

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Damien Elmes (resolve) wrote :

Not Anki's fault: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/805303

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