Bug 6880

Summary: rtkit-daemon often kills gnome-settings-daemon during heavy load
Product: Mageia Reporter: Simon Putt <lemonzest>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED OLD QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: Normal CC: stormi-mageia
Version: 2Keywords: NEEDINFO
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Simon Putt 2012-07-27 15:43:03 CEST
sometimes under heavy load, the gnome 3 gtk3 theme will "Die" and revert from Adwaita to Oxygen-GTK, the desktop/app icons all change to oxygen-icons too.

this is what it says in the eventlog when it has happend, the only fix I currently know is to logout and back into gnome 3

Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Demoting known real-time threads.
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4212 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4211 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4210 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4209 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4208 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4207 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4204 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4191 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:21 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Demoted 8 threads.
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: The canary thread is apparently starving. Taking action.
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Demoting known real-time threads.
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4212 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4211 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4210 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4209 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4208 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4207 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4204 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Successfully demoted thread 4191 of process 4191 (/usr/bin/pulseaudio).
    Jul 25 20:24:31 electronicbox rtkit-daemon[1736]: Demoted 8 threads.
    Jul 25 20:28:39 electronicbox kernel: [252290.487802] composite sync not supported
    Jul 25 20:28:40 electronicbox kernel: [252291.539342] composite sync not supported
    Jul 25 20:28:42 electronicbox kernel: [252292.610592] composite sync not supported
    Jul 25 20:28:42 electronicbox kernel: [252293.560841] composite sync not supported
    Jul 25 20:29:27 electronicbox gnome-session[4018]: WARNING: Child process 4176 was already dead.

the child process of gnome-session is gnome-settings-daemon, as when I attempted to change monitor settings (for example enabling my 2nd head (HDMI)) It said there was an error in gnome-settings-daemon/XRANDR

My system is as follows

[lemoncow@electronicbox Desktop]$ inxi -Fz 
System:    Host: electronicbox Kernel: 3.3.8-desktop-1.mga2 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: "Mageia" 2 thornicroft
Machine:   Mobo: MICRO-STAR model: 870-C45 (MS-7599) version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: V1.15 date: 03/04/2011
CPU:       Hexa core AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm) 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz 3: 800.00 MHz 4: 800.00 MHz 5: 800.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card: ATI Turks [Radeon HD 6670] X.Org: 1.11.4 driver: radeon Resolution: 2048x1152@59.9hz, 1920x1080@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TURKS GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2
Audio:     Card-1: ATI Device aa90 driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
           Card-2: C-Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] driver: snd_virtuoso
           Card-3: C-Media CM8738 driver: snd_cmipci
           Card-4: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 4000.8GB (88.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: SAMSUNG_HD103UI size: 1000.2GB 
           2: id: /dev/sdc model: SAMSUNG_HD103UI size: 1000.2GB 3: id: /dev/sdb model: SAMSUNG_HD103UI size: 1000.2GB 
           4: USB id: /dev/sdd model: External_HDD size: 1000.2GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 50G used: 14G (28%) fs: ext4 ID: /boot size: 497M used: 45M (9%) fs: ext4 
           ID: /home size: 875G used: 784G (90%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 6.31GB used: 0.03GB (1%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 25.0 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1419 fan-2: 0 fan-3: 0 
Info:      Processes: 215 Uptime: 4 days Memory: 3262.9/16053.1MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.13
Comment 1 Simon Putt 2012-08-28 12:20:25 CEST
Looks like an I/O Starvation Issue, My main drive is a Samsung 1TB Green Drive, its spin rate is only 5400rpm, setting elevator=deadline in the grub menu.lst has pretty much mitigated this and now happens VERY rarely, from twice every other day, to maybe once a week now, I'll test again when I install my Kingston V200 128GB SSD drive as Primary.

Simon/Lemonzest
Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2013-09-06 18:03:07 CEST
Hi, it's been 1 year since you said "I'll test again". Do you want to keep this bug report open or is your problem solved?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => stormi

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2013-10-22 12:21:00 CEST
This message is a reminder that Mageia 2 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately one month from now Mageia will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Mageia 2. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX (EOL) if it remains open with a Mageia 'version' of '2'.

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Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete.

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Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-23 16:16:31 CET
Mageia 2 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on ''22 November''. Mageia 2 is no
longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or
bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD