Goldwarden spawns python processes until pc crash or processes are manually killed

[ghandigarcia]

Hey, big fan of this project since I came across it a few months ago!

I have a bit of an issue that I think is related to Goldwarden, though I'm not entirely sure. I also have messed something up somewhere, that's always a possibility :)

It is the only application that I have installed with python code that I've found to cause the following behavior;
with Goldwarden auto-starting on boot, or when starting it via either gui or CLI, a number of python processes roughly ~8mb in size starts being spawned. They keep spawning until the laptop either crashes or I manually kill the processes.
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Screenshot of what it looks like when I run flatpak run com.quexten.Goldwarden

[hulloanson]

Same experience here. There were upward of 100s of status.py processes when I checked and killing them gave me back 14GiB of memory.

Running flatpak installation v0.3.2, launched with unmodified desktop entry.

Edit: grammar and install info

[quexten]

What desktop environment are you on?

[quexten]

#223 should fix this. I think your de does not implement the background portal (or just v1), and so the status setting dbus call fails, and the process never exits, just idling. Since status.py is spawned quite frequently (and expected to exit immediately), this causes the mess you are seeing.

[ghandigarcia]

What desktop environment are you on?

I'm on Gnome, version 42.9. Let me know if there's anything else you need or if you'd like me to test something. I'll do my best to help!

[hulloanson]

#223 should fix this. I think your de does not implement the background portal (or just v1), and so the status setting dbus call fails, and the process never exits, just idling. Since status.py is spawned quite frequently (and expected to exit immediately), this causes the mess you are seeing.

Did find these in logs when running goldwarden gui in cli with flatpak run.

g-dbus-error-quark: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Background” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop (19)

I was using LXDM with openbox.

Copying the fix in #223 to the flatpak installation did fix the issue. Kudos to the quick resolution!

[ghandigarcia]

Just tested the fix in #223 as well, it looks all good now. Thanks!