Package: mate-desktop-environment Version: 1.20.0+5~bpo9+1 Severity: important
Dear Maintainer, This problem occurs out of the blue at random times, on average once a day, and usually involves ‘mate-panel’ or ‘mate-settings-demon’. The process eventually eats up all available memory so that a hard reset is the only way out. On inspection, I found the file /var/run/user/1001/dconf/user was owned by root:root instead of me (UID 1001). If file ownership is reset (using Sudo) to 1001:1001 and the subprocess killed quickly enough, the problem disappears for the moment (except for swap space clearing only slowly). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment depends on: ii mate-desktop-environment-core 1.20.0+5~bpo9+1 Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment recommends: ii atril 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1 ii desktop-base 9.0.2+deb9u1 ii engrampa 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii eom 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 pn ffmpegthumbnailer <none> ii mate-applet-brisk-menu 0.5.0-8~bpo9+1 ii mate-applets 1.20.2-2~bpo9+1 ii mate-backgrounds 1.20.0-2~bpo9+1 ii mate-calc 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-icon-theme-faenza 1.20.0+dfsg1-2~bpo9+1 ii mate-media 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-notification-daemon 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-power-manager 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-screensaver 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-system-monitor 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-user-guide 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii mate-utils 1.20.1-1~bpo9+1 ii pluma 1.20.2-1~bpo9+1 Versions of packages mate-desktop-environment suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-4 ii evolution [mail-reader] 3.22.6-1+deb9u1 ii mailutils [mail-reader] 1:3.1.1-1 ii mate-desktop-environment-extras 1.20.0+5~bpo9+1 ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.7.2-1+deb9u1 ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.18-2~bpo9+1 pn x-www-browser | firefox <none> -- debconf-show failed
