dbus-daemon eats 100 % of one core of the PC on 12.10

Bug #1052883 reported by Sebastian Bugiu
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dbus (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I am using the 12.10 beta and noticed that after the updates released with the 3.5.0.15 kernel and the restart, I always have one core fully utilized by dbus-daemon. I am using xfce.

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Jaromir Obr (jaromir-obr) wrote :

I've just hit the same issue upon a latest batch of updates.
When I restarted OS upon the update and logged in, one of my two cores is at 100 % CPU.

Used SW:
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Ubuntu 12.10 beta1 amd64
kernel: 3.5.0-15-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP
dbus: 1.6.4-1ubuntu1
xubuntu-desktop: 2.160

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in dbus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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matthieu vidal (mvidal0001) wrote :

With 12.10 BETA 2, this is the ps -ef | grep dbus-daemon I have

108 535 1 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon --system --fork
matthieu 2218 1 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 //bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
matthieu 2224 2220 0 09:58 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3

I do not like this UID 108 without a name .... is this a security issue ?

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neutrico (neutrico) wrote :

lightdm 2169 1 99 00:44 ? 00:06:46 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3

BUMP.

Could someone take this bug seriously?

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