unity --replace crashes/closes some applications (but not all) since 16.04
Bug #1613297 reported by
RastaPopoulos
This bug affects 6 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Context : when I start Unity, Compiz takes ~40Mo of RAM. But when I use my computer hours and hours, then it takes more than 100… 150Mo. So since many years, I regularly restart Unity with "unity --replace", and it works : only relaunch the interface, and less RAM.
But since I updated to 16.04, this command completely crashes and closes some of my opened applications. But only some, not all. For example :
- firefox crashes
- thunderbird crashes
- geany crashes
- system monitor crashes
but
- nautilus remains open
- gnome-terminal remains open
I only want to restart the general interface, and it worked perfectly for years.
If I can provide more informations or logs…
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
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| Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote | #1 |
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| Andrea Azzarone (azzar1) wrote | #2 |
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| Jelle De Loecker (skerit) wrote | #3 |
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Confirmed, one data point seems to be that it kills all apps that are launched by unity, i.e. are unity's children? Could be about process groups or cgroups or so.