Ubuntu
xfdesktop4 package

xfdesktop takes forever to load (3-5 minutes) and then eats cpu (100%) for about ten minutes

Bug #505246 reported by aanno on 2010-01-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #329616: Multiple instances of xfdesktop started simultaneously. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfdesktop4 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfdesktop4

This is a bug report for xubuntu 9.10. For some time xfdesktop takes forever to load (3-5 minutes) and then eats cpu (100%) for about ten minutes *every* time I log in. There are many xfdesktop processes (up to 15!) in this case. In this time the system is hardly usable.

There has been some discussion about this in a ubuntu forum at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1162848 but with no real conclusion. Perhaps the problem is related to ~/.xsession-errors, hence I will include it.