unity-lens-photos runs at 100% CPU for no reason

[Clint Byrum]

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 6886 clint 20 0 1175m 564m 3280 R 99.8 14.6 453:43.84 unity-lens-phot

I do not have many photos, and when I have run strace against the process, that is not what it is doing. See stout.txt attachment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity-lens-photos 0.9daily12.12.05-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 16 07:05:02 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-24 (539 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-lens-photos
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-09 (65 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anzan Hoshin (anzanhoshinroshi)]

Just to confirm. I have to F9 it in htop at least daily.

[bagl0312 (bagl0312)]

I am also affected by the same bug, it is enough to open the dash to launch any program, and unity-lens-photos starts to use 100% cpu