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gnome-media package

[Karmic] gnome-volume-control-applet uses 30+% cpu after login, fails to connect after being killed

Bug #404828 reported by VladNistor on 2009-07-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #400820: gnome-volume-control-applet takes up to 40% cpu. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-media (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-media

gnome-media:
  Installed: 2.27.4-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 2.27.4-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
*** 2.27.4-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) [alpha 3]
Release: 9.10

Linux unknown-device 2.6.31-4-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 18:05:56 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)

After the past few days of upgrading my karmic installation I woke up with a weird spike in system CPU usage. I found it was gnome-volume-control-applet. This happens after I log in.

I obviously kill the applet. When attempting to start it back up from the terminal I get a repeating error (shows until I ctr+c the app):

** (gnome-volume-control-applet:27995): WARNING **: Connection failed, reconnecting...

This may be unrelated but gnome-settings-daemon also takes up about the same amount of cpu after booting until stopped.

Let me know if you need extra info.
What you need to do to reproduce this is log into Karmic 64 bit alpha3.

Revision history for this message

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-07-26:

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-media (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Amanjot Mangat (amanisdude) wrote on 2010-08-24:

I have the same bug. It happened after I uninstalled, then reinstalled PulseAudio. The volume control applet in the toolbar is gone, and entering 'gnome-volume-control' results in the same errors as above. (It might be worth noting that the port the applet tries to connect to is different each time I issue the command.) Here's are the errors I get: