dbus-deamon eats some 67% cpu time continuously

[indium]

this relates to bug #884701.

I have added this bug since dbus-daemon seems co-responsible to the indicator-datetime (or -date?) MEMORY LEAK.

pkill -9 indicator-datetime just restart a new process, that also leaks/eat memory infinitely.

I don't suppose killing dbus-daemon is a good idea.

I have shutdown and restarted: problem persists.

After a log out it also persists while lightDM is running the login screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dbus 1.4.14-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 1 12:07:40 2011
ExecutablePath: /bin/dbus-daemon
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dbus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (15 days ago)

[indium (indium)]

this does not happen when running gnome3!

[indium (indium)]

I think it relates to GeoClue.master. (which probably gets the location for setting the time zone or summer-winter time change-overs).

In the attachment is a part of the output of dbus-monitor. It generates LOADS OF messages (which makes sense, since it is working 70% of the CPU time).

I STILL have no clue how to stop this!

Using dconf-editor I have switched off the date-time indicator by deselecting all in /com/canonical/indicator/datetime :

still NO CHANGE in cpu usage

HELP!!!!

[indium (indium)]

and the attachment:

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[dino99 (9d9)]

Oneiric have reached EOL since a while, and so is no more maintained.