lxdm-binary is using 100% of cpu time

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I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 dev with lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu5. I have now booted my system (it was running ~1 day) and it seems some update of another package has caused something that lxdm-binary is now using 100% cpu time of one core.

There was a similar problem before with libglib2.0-0 which was already fixed with lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu5: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxdm/+bug/901407

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I have figured out that using "restart lxdm" works as a workaround. lxdm-binary doesn't use 100% of one cpu core anymore until the next reboot.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Francisco Villar (villarf)]

Also affects me using Lubuntu 12.04 beta, lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu6

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I have figured out that this happens if the account with which you login into LXDM isn't loged in before. If I login with the console first and then with LXDM the problem doesn't happen anymore (this is why the "restart lxdm" workaround worked).

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I have created a new user and the problem doesn't appear there. I tried to figure out what is the difference between both users. After some time I figured out that this problem appears only with ecryptfs encrypted home directories.

[Michael Johnston (michael-johnston29)]

Yes, i just told lxdm to mount my ecryptfs home folder by adding a few lines to /etc/pam.d/lxdm
(following these intructions https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_eCryptfs#PAM_Mount)

And after doing that CPU is at ~100%.

This is quite annoying, so i'll be switch to GDM until someone solves this

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I have opened now an upstream bug report to speed up this a little: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3548688&group_id=180858&atid=894869

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The ticket on Sourceforge is now closed because the maintainer thinks it is a bug related to the pam object of ecryptfs. He provided also a patch as a workaround which will maybe solve the problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Francisco Villar (villarf)]

This bug still exists with Lubuntu 12.10 and lxdm 0.4.1-0ubuntu6

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What shall we do now? dgod don't want to change anything in LXDM to solve this problem. But we have a patch as a workaround from him. Does anybody know if it has any disadvantages? If not maybe the patch should be implemented.

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These are the changes which dgod mentioned in a patch format.

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[Gromobir (gromobir)]

I'm still affected by this bug. I'm using the newest version of Trisquel it this still persists in there...