Bug#598901: gnome-system-monitor: On kfreebsd System Monitor spews "LibGTop-Server: kvm_read (si): Bad address".

Michael Dorrington michael.dorrington at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 23:22:48 UTC 2010


Package: gnome-system-monitor
Version: 2.28.1-1
Severity: important
User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org

In kfreebsd start the program (capturing stdout and stderr to a file).

$ gnome-system-monitor > gnome-system-monitor.out 2>&1

Click on the Processes tab. System Monitor is now spewing
"LibGTop-Server: kvm_read (si): Bad address" to the output capture file
and lacks responsiveness. End the program.

$ ls -sh gnome-system-monitor.out
26M gnome-system-monitor.out
$ wc -l gnome-system-monitor.out
624431 gnome-system-monitor.out
$ sort gnome-system-monitor.out | uniq -c | sort -nr
 623591 LibGTop-Server: kvm_read (si): Bad address
    411 kvm_open: kvm_getprocs: No such process
     12 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18164): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18186): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18185): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18184): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18182): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18179): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18166): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18160): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18067): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18066): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18054): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18053): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18044): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18019): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17972): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17971): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17969): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17968): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17965): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17791): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17790): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17788): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17787): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17785): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17705): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17693): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17692): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17683): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17681): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17670): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17669): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17667): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17664): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17377): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17376): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17367): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17181): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17172): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17070): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17069): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17068): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17066): No such process
      9 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17063): No such process
      6 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18050): No such process
      6 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17689): No such process
      4 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17959): No such process
      2 glibtop: geom_stats_open(): Permission denied
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18288): No such process
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18187): No such process
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (18056): No such process
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17671): No such process
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getprocs (17425): No such process
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (9): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (8): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (7): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (6): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (5): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (310): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (18): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (17): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (16): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (15): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (14): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (13): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (12): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (11): Success
      1 LibGTop-Server: kvm_getargv (10): Success
      1 kvm_open: kvm_nlist: No such file or directory


Note that on my installation of kfreebsd the program doesn't crash
(unlike <http://bugs.debian.org/568404>) and it does display the process
list (unlike <http://bugs.debian.org/596142>).

Regards,
Mike.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libc0.1                     2.11.2-6     Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.10-6     The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.4.4-8    GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.28.1-3     GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.24.2-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a          2.24.2-1     C++ wrapper for the GLib
toolkit (
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.20.1-1+b1  The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a           1:2.20.3-1   C++ wrappers for GTK+
(shared libr
ii  libgtop2-7                  2.28.1-1     gtop system monitoring
library (sh
ii  librsvg2-2                  2.26.3-1     SAX-based renderer library
for SVG
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a          2.2.4.2-1    type-safe Signal Framework
for C++
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.4-8      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwnck22                   2.30.3-1     Window Navigator
Construction Kit
ii  libxml2                     2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library

Versions of packages gnome-system-monitor recommends:
ii  gvfs                       1.6.3-1       userspace virtual
filesystem - ser
ii  libgksu2-0                 2.0.13~pre1-1 library providing su and
sudo func

gnome-system-monitor suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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