#8654 BLOC 8.2.1: terminal disappears when doing sugar-control-panel -g available_updates

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#8654: terminal disappears when doing sugar-control-panel -g available_updates
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   Reporter:  mikus      |       Owner:  marco                            
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  8.2.1                            
  Component:  sugar      |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:             |    Keywords:                                   
Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:             |    Blocking:                                   
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Comment(by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:2 mikus]:
 > Replying to [comment:1 tomeu]:
 > > If you want to know if OOM has killed any process, I believe you can
 see a message with details about that in /var/log/messages.
 >
 > Yep.  Such messages show up in the /var/log/messages that is part of the
 attachment to this ticket.
 >
 > I think it is UNREASONABLE for 'sugar-control-panel' to be causing "Out
 Of Memory".  [I beleive Terminal (in which that command ran) was the
 *only* activity that had been launched.]

 I agree, can you please check the output of ps_mem.py (you can google to
 find it) next time it happens? This will tell us which process is
 misbehaving. Thanks!

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