Ok. I have no idea what I'm looking for. I see messages in a lot of the upstart log files that look like errors. See below.
How am I supposed to know what package this 'bug' belongs to? I'm not a linux systems guy. How would I figure that out? I'd be glad to classify this better if I knew how. All I know is what I said in my first remark about this. I've been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and have never seen duplicate processes get started like this before. They just keep building up until I start to see performance degradation. Then I reboot and all is well until they build up again. Thanks for your help. Here's part of the output of ps fax: 7011 ? Ss 0:00 \_ bash -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null - 7012 ? Sl 0:02 \_ mono /usr/lib/docky/Docky.exe 6715 ? S 0:00 su apjjr - -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null 7016 ? Ss 0:00 \_ bash -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null - 7017 ? Sl 0:02 \_ mono /usr/lib/docky/Docky.exe 6872 ? S 0:00 su apjjr - -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null 7019 ? Ss 0:00 \_ bash -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null - 7021 ? Sl 0:02 \_ mono /usr/lib/docky/Docky.exe 6910 ? S 0:00 su apjjr - -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null 7022 ? Ss 0:00 \_ bash -c dbus-launch /usr/bin/docky >/dev/null - 7026 ? Sl 0:02 \_ mono /usr/lib/docky/Docky.exe I wonder why so many instances of Docky? I'd appreciate any help I can get. If I need to reinstall because somethngs gotten screwed up, I'll do that. Following are the upstart log files I think are indicating some error: cups.log cupsd failed to create /var/run/cups/cups.sock, skipping automatic printer configuration cupsd failed to create /var/run/cups/cups.sock, skipping automatic printer configuration gpu-manager.log /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x86_64-linux-gnu_gfxcore_conf /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file /etc/modprobe.d is not a file update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for x86_64-linux-gnu_gfxcore_conf kmod.log modprobe: FATAL: Module rtc not found. modprobe: FATAL: Module rtc not found. network-manager.log (NetworkManager:861): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Key file does not have group 'connectivity' (NetworkManager:879): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory. This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set. The overwriting error message was: Key file does not have group 'connectivity' ureadahead.log ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory ureadahead:/var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf: No such file or directory ureadahead-other.log ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/im-config.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-release.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/gnome-keyring-ssh.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/gnome-keyring-gpg.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/ssh-agent.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/unity7.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/indicator-bluetooth.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/indicator-datetime.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-00b673f2.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/var/lib/ureadahead/boot.efi.pack: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/im-config.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/update-notifier-release.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/gnome-keyring-ssh.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/gnome-keyring-gpg.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/ssh-agent.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/unity7.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/window-stack-bridge.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/indicator-bluetooth.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.cache/upstart/indicator-datetime.log: No such file or directory ureadahead:/home/apjjr/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home-00b673f2.log: No such file or directory wait-for-state-plymouth-shutdownlightdm.log stop: Job has already been stopped: lightdm stop: Job has already been stopped: lightdm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1427785 Title: Duplicate processes started after Resume of amd64 bit Status in unity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: $ uname -a Linux ajsc855 3.13.0-46-generic #76-Ubuntu SMP Thu Feb 26 18:52:13 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS" Toshiba Satellite C855, 4GB RAM, 720GB HD I typically run Thunderbird, Firefox, a terminal or two, Gthumb, Gimp, Qcad, Gedit, Libreoffice, Inkscape, Document Viewer and occasionally Virtualbox. I just noticed this a couple of weeks ago, so I am guessing a recent update started it. It seems to me that there are quite a few duplicate copies of some processes populating memory after suspending/resuming a session for a few days. Namely, dbus-daemon, gvfsd and gconfd-2. The more I suspend/resume the session, the more of these processes appear. After a while they start using up a significant amount of memory and system response seems to slow down. Logging out and back in did not alleviate the problem. Rebooting did. But, I will have to reboot again in a week to free up the memory used by these duplicate processes. The example session used to get the following results was probably well over a week in use. Before rebooting: $ ps -ef >prereboot.txt $ grep -i dbus-daemon <prereboot.txt|wc -l 40 $ grep -i gvfsd <prereboot.txt|wc -l 78 $ grep -i gconfd-2 <prereboot.txt|wc -l 37 After rebooting: $ ps -ef >postreboot.txt $ grep -i dbus-daemon <postreboot.txt|wc -l 4 $ grep -i gvfsd <postreboot.txt|wc -l 5 $ grep -i gconfd-2 <postreboot.txt|wc -l 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1427785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp