[Bug 373677] [NEW] fast-user-switch-applet exhibiting high CPU usage

[Szilárd Páll]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: fast-user-switch-applet

The fast-user-switch-applet process started to exhibit high, close to
100% processor usage and restarting the process does not help.

Here are the ps aux outputs after two conswquent times killing the
process  (automatically restarts)"

pszilard 31255 99.3  0.4 244268 16812 ?        S    13:55  25:33 /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=20
pszilard 31957 95.6  0.3 240088 14392 ?        S    14:24   0:09 /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet --oaf-
activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=20
pszilard 31967 98.6  0.3 240084 14396 ?        R    14:25   0:02 /usr/lib/fast-user-switch-applet/fast-user-switch-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=20

At the same time, in the auth.log some lines seem to be referring to this incident: 
May  8 14:20:01 csbl09 CRON[31758]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May  8 14:20:01 csbl09 dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.37" (uid=1001 pid=4427 comm="/usr/lib/indicator-applet/indicator-applet --oaf-a") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member="Get" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination=":1.218" (uid=0 pid=31758 comm="/USR/SBIN/CRON "))

uname -a:
Linux csbl09 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:58:03 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

** Affects: fast-user-switch-applet (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: cpu fast-user-switch-applet usage

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