high cpu usage when a properties window is open

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Binary package hint: seahorse

This bug affects both 2.30 and 2.32 (Lucid and Maverick).

When you open Seahorse find some password and open its properties window, CPU usage skyrockets. It's not exactly a major problem, but it also doesn't seem necessary.

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad-deactivatedaccount)]

I also reported it upstream, just for consistency: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647296

[Rodu (greenheron)]

I also noticed the same problem today... Ubuntu 10.04.

[Dimitry Verkholashin (dimitrygv)]

One of the reason why Seahorse could be hammering your CPU is because hardware random number generator tools are not running. The other day I noticed increase in CPU utilization and then noticed that rng-tools are not running (the normal rng traffic would not show up in tcpdump). I suggest that you check your tpm or prng to make sure it is doing what it should. Anyhow, as soon as I started rng-tools, cpu utilization normalized. An interesting question is why rng suddenly stopped...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Benjamin (nailartcenter)]

I have now the same problem under Ubuntu 12.04 with last updates. I created a pgp key last hour ago. strange.