Bug 141806

Summary:	wxGTK 2.6.1 leaks memory.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ramon Garcia <ramon.garcia.f+suse>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
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Description Ramon Garcia 2006-01-06 17:15:43 UTC

wxGTK 2.6.1 for GTK 2 leaks memory according to the aMule development team. See http://forum.amule.org/thread.php?sid=&postid=47913 According to these developers the issues are solved with wxGTK 2.6.2 . I downloaded an aMule rpm compiled with GTK 2 and recently noticed that aMule was not running after a week (in contrast to what I had posted earlier in that forum). So please release an wxGTK 2.6.2 as an update for Suse 10.0.

(aMule is a eMule clone for Linux).

Thus aMule developers distribute aMule compiled with a custom wxGTK for GTK 1. This ensues a bad look and feel, a larger download and conflicts with Suse own wxGTK.

aMule is a very important application. Take into account that according to some recent reports peer to peer traffic represents more that 50 % of current Internet traffic. I think that aMule should be bundled with Suse Linux, but if that is not posible for legal reasons, it should work so that installing it is as easy as posible.

Comment 1 Ramon Garcia 2006-01-07 02:09:14 UTC

Well, the information posted was not accurate. The update seems desirable, but it seems that aMule 2.1.0 is now being packaged with the wxGTK distributed with Suse.

Comment 2 Andreas Hanke 2006-01-13 16:23:38 UTC

wxPython version 2.6.2.1 has been released recently, see announcement on http://wxpython.org/

This means that an upgrade should be possible now, since SuSE's wxGTK packages are built from the wxPython source.

Also please note that the frequently reported intl.cpp and gsocket.cpp bugs which are triggered by aMule are not(!) present in the wxPython 2.6.2.1 source because it's based on WX_2_6_BRANCH, not the 2.6.2 release:

- src/common/intl.cpp is OK since rev. 1.166.2.1, this wxPython release has rev. 1.166.2.2

- src/unix/gsocket.cpp is OK since rev. 1.51.2.1, this wxPython release has rev. 1.51.2.2

So please consider upgrading... This should make the aMule problems disappear because all memory leaks are fixed in wxGTK 2.6.2 according to the aMule developers.

Comment 4 Andreas Jaeger 2006-01-16 14:58:51 UTC

No, we're not upgrading since each such update has the risk of breaking other stuff.

An update to a newer release will happen with SUSE Linux 10.1.

Comment 5 Stanislav Brabec 2006-01-17 13:37:01 UTC

Updated to wxpython version 2.6.2.1 including bundled wxGTK for 10.1.