Uh, I wasn't implying that.  Only that I have a fair amount of
experience as a Unix software developer, and I had trouble following the
instructions on the Wiki page to get this debug information.  There are
two things that have confused me:

* The fact that the -dbgsym packages actually only provide extra debug
information in files in /usr/lib/debug, and not whole new executables
with debug information.  I wasn't aware that this was possible, so when
I saw it didn't modify the existing executables, and that /usr/bin/file
said that the new /usr/lib/debug files were in fact ELF executables, the
natural thing for me to do was to try to run them, which fails
miserably.  I was just asking for a hint to be placed on the wiki page
to that effect, to prevent further confusion.

* The fact that this is a gnome-panel applet, and in fact the way to
debug it is very non-obvious.  The Ubuntu Valgrind wiki page contains
nothing about how to do this.  I finally found something here:
http://www.davyd.id.au/articles/debugging-gnome-applets.shtml , but I
think in general most bug reporters are not going to go to that much
effort to find this out.

Anyway, it looks like the leak is possibly in libgtop or how it is
called from the system applet.  I'll post full valgrind dumps in a bit.

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multiload-applet-2 leaks memory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307472
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