Comment 29 for bug 284229

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 284229] Re: console-kit-daemon using a lot of cpu

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 01:46 +0000, Ben wrote:
> i had the same problem, having console-kit-daemon usgin about 10% of CPU, and growing.
> I saw (thx to "lsof -c console-kit") that console-kit-daemon wrote very often (about every 0.2 sec!) to his logfile (/var/log/ConsoleKit/history) an apparent login/logout from user 1000 (which is myself!) while i did not logon/off:
>
> 1227922049.237 type=SEAT_SESSION_ADDED : seat-id='Seat1' session-id='Session3358' session-type='' session-x11-display='' session-x11-display-device='' session-display-device='/dev/???' session-remote-host-name='' session-is-local=TRUE session-unix-user=1000 session-creation-time='2008-11-29T01:27:29.171247Z'
> 1227922049.449 type=SEAT_SESSION_REMOVED : seat-id='Seat1' session-id='Session3358' session-type='' session-x11-display='' session-x11-display-device='' session-display-device='/dev/???' session-remote-host-name='' session-is-local=TRUE session-unix-user=1000 session-creation-time='2008-11-29T01:27:29.171247Z'
>
> [and so on...]
>
> i do not have any crontab for uid 1000. So i don't know what made such a
> stress on console-kit-daemon.
>

Hi,

Could you please capture some output of "dbus-monitor --system" while
this is happening please.

The session-display-device='/dev/???' is odd.

Thanks,

James