usb-creator format disk causes udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu
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udisks (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Note: I restarted my system to get my computer working properly. These attachments may be useless.
I was trying to create a bootable usb stick with usb-creator. I clicked "format disk".
(What you expected to happen)
I expect this utilty to wipe my usb stick so that the iso can be installed onto it.
(What happened instead)
It said something like "dbus did not send a reply", and the system was frozen. I got into the tty and ran top there, finding that udisks-daemon is hogging both cpu and memory, and another process udisks-
Output from top
4343 root 20 0 8391m 3.1g 460 R 99.9 81.3 7:41.24 udisks-daemon
8593 root 20 0 20060 504 408 R 99.9 0.0 7:41.65 udisks-helper-m
the second process was truncated by top somehow
I have a dell inspiron 3421, which came with a ubuntu. I upgraded it to 13.10. I have udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1, usb-creator-gtk 0.2.50.1, in case these are useful
(PS My English is not very good. Edit my post if you wish.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
CustomUdevRuleF
Date: Sat Feb 1 14:17:39 2014
DistributionCha
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
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canonical-
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-26 (67 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20120703-15:08
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3421
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: udisks
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-29 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 09/09/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0D94X7
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3421
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
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- udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu + usb-creator format disk causes udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu |
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I tried this again with the same result. This time I made core dumps of:
1. the hogger "udisks-daemon" helper- modify- partition"
2. the hogger "udisks-
3. the two hogger's parent process, which is also "udisks-daemon"
I made them with kill -STOP pid && gcore pid