timidity continuing post-boot with high cpu

[Aaron Walker]

timidity is started at boot, apparently that is Standard Operating Procedure. I find that on my machine, by the time I log on, it is frequently (but not always) still running, and it is running at 100%.

Often, since I've discovered this, I will simply kill timidity, as I've discovered that I don't need it running constantly to do any of the work that I do.

I also use Jack, which I control with QJackCtl. I have found that often (!) I will start Jack with QJackCtl, and then if I stop Jack again (with QJackCtl), timidity cpu will go to negligible levels (however, the process is still there). When I start Jack again, timidity cpu will jump back up. I'm mostly providing this part of the report as it may help you debug it. Hopefully it doesn't muddy the waters too much.

So, basically, what I believe is happening, is that intermittently, timidity is not successfully stopping after its start-stop cycle during boot, and additionally, it is running at 100%

cpu.aaron1@Parker:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04

aaron1@Parker:~$ apt-cache policy timidity
timidity:
  Installed: 2.14.0-8build1
  Candidate: 2.14.0-8build1
  Version table:
 *** 2.14.0-8build1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: timidity 2.14.0-8build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-58.64-lowlatency 5.4.73
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-58-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Dec 15 19:34:08 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-03 (926 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171017.1)
SourcePackage: timidity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-07 (222 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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