Ubuntu
appstream package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1579712
  3. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 1579712

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Brett Bogert (bbogert24) wrote : Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

Folks, Updates had been working fine for me until today (5/19/2016).

I updated my machines last night(all 11 of them) and now all are
experiencing the aforementioned problem with 100% CPU usage from
appstreamcli.

It appears that in my case at least that something applied last
night must be triggering the problem as I have had no problems
with apt update until today.

I was able to "Ctrl C" out of the update command and install
some updates but have to "assume" that I had gotten them all
since the update command never completed.

I will try and get the above fix applied to at least some of my
machines tomorrow.

How will users be able to apply the fix if they can't get past
the apt update command hanging (other than manual intervention
that is)?

Thanks