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gpaste package

Gpaste copy buffer fills itself up with instances of a single copied image

Bug #1812523 reported by Rainer Rohde
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Bug Description

Gpaste - for some reason - keeps filling up the buffer with an image I copy/pasted only once. This goes one forever it seems, and I only noticed because my laptop's fans started to go wild. I could only stop this after stopping and restarting the daemon, and of course, clearing the history. I've seen this a few times before, and it only happens with images.

However, since I started to use Flameshot to copy images (from the built-in GNOME Screenshot tool), this happens almost every time.

I've attached a screenshot of the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gpaste 3.28.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-14.15-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jan 19 18:18:46 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-27 (84 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gpaste
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :
summary: - Gpaste copy buffer fills up itself with instances of a copied image
+ Gpaste copy buffer fills itself up with instances of a single copied
+ image
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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :

Here's a screencast that I took just now, since the issue is still ongoing as of today.

I hope this screencast help visualize the severity of the issue, with the copy buffer keeping on filling itself up over, and over, and over, and over again with only 1x image that I copied.

After a little while, my laptop's fans go crazy due to the extra load this imposes.

So, please can you provide some fix, or at least acknowledge the issue?

Thanks.

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Rainer Rohde (rainer-rohde) wrote :

Screencast to help visualize the issue more clearly.

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

If you're using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, bug #1775971 is for updating gpaste to 3.28.3 in Bionic, which fixes two crashes, one with emptying history and one with image support.

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resplin (resplin) wrote :

I'm seeing the same behavior on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using gnome-shell-extensions 3.36.3-1 on Gnome 3.36.7 and pasting images captured with KDE Spectacle.

Every time I take a screen shot and press the "Copy to Clipboard" button, my gpaste buffer fills up with copies of the image and my CPU spikes until Gnome Shell crashes.

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