I have a non-server Ubuntu installation which I mainly use as a headless server. I don't remember what was the first version installed (there were several major upgrades) but right now I'm using the following:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
And I have dozens processes which look like this (from htop):
2167800 root 20 0 162M 7536 6756 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ├─ gdm-autologin]
2167803 root 20 0 162M 7536 6756 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 │ ├─ gdm-autologin]
2167802 root 20 0 162M 7536 6756 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 │ └─ gdm-autologin]
And if I try to count them:
ps aux | grep gdm-autologin | wc -l
237
I suspect that it is not normal and if it is indeed not, what can I do about it?
I don't know when they started to appear in masses because I started noticing those only after my interaction with apt
(mostly updgrade
) started giving me the following:
Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: The maximum number
of active connections for UID 0 has been reached
and
Error connecting:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: The maximum
number of active connections for UID
Can these be connected?
UPD: Found another weird thing that I think is connected to all of this. Ran journalctl _UID=1000
and got 4116108 lines of logs since Feb 11. And it mainly contains the same Xorg log repeating over and over again: /var/log/Xorg.0.log