[Bug 654228] [NEW] System unusable after using Fn-F9 to toggle wireless

[Ben Edgington]

Public bug reported:

I upgraded today to samsung-tools 1.1.4~ppa1~loms~lucid.  After
rebooting, the system becomes unusable when Fn-F9 is pressed to toggle
wireless.  Everything worked fine with 1.1.3.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 netbook remix.  Hadware is Samsung N230 netbook, kernel as follows:
Linux **** 2.6.32-25-generic #45~ppa1~loms~lucid-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 27 19:14:15 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

The "Wireless enabled"/"Wireless disabled" notification appears on
screen and alternates between the two states a few times before the
machine slows almost to a halt.  The system begins swapping madly (HD
light on permanently; "top" shows memory exhausted).

Running "ps" shows *hundreds* of processes as follows, all running under my username:
  python /usr/bin/samsung-tools --show-notify -quiet -wireless hotkey
  sh -c samsung-tools --show-notify --quiet --wireless hotkey

A workaround for now is to remove /etc/xdg/samsung-tools-session-
service.desktop.  I can then toggle wireless using the command line
samsung-tools with no problem (but the hotkeys no longer work, of
course).

This may not be limited to the wireless hotkey, that's just the first
one I used.

There are no log files /var/log/samsung-tools.log or /<userhome
>/.samsung-tools/log.

** Affects: samsung-tools
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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System unusable after using Fn-F9 to toggle wireless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654228
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