gnome-cups-icon constantly uses >75% of CPU

[Rylie Pavlik]

Since updating Dapper, my processor has been stuck at no less tha 75% utilization. Gnome system monitor tells me that gnome-cups-icon is the culprit. Killing the process obviously fixes the problem, at least temporarily.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Might be related to Bug #45406

[edschofield (schofield)]

Bug #45595 is a duplicate of this. But I think bug #45406 might be unrelated.

I can confirm that gnome-cups-icon sometimes eats CPU cycles. On my system (with Dapper) it's 100% right now. I've just done a dist-upgrade, which installed new versions of gnome-panel , gnome-panel-data, and update-manager, among others. This may or may not be related. Killing gnome-panel doesn't help, but killing the renegade gnome-cups-icon process solves the problem. I've resorted to this about once per week since installing Dapper.

[Prizrak (slavachem)]

I can confirm this. In my case it does so when I try to add a printer, the process hangs and completely eats up the CPU. Killing it doesn't work as it restarts into taking 100% of CPU again until a system restart. (haven't tried just restarting GNOME)

[Mathieu Laurent (mla)]

Same problem on my laptop with dapper. 95% use of cpu by gnome-cups-icon. System very slow. I didn't add a printer (no use of gnome-cups-manager).

[Nikolaus Rath (nikratio)]

Marked as duplicate of bug #44196 as that bug contains most information.