Gnome consume 100% cpu FreeBSD_9.0 - Resolved !!!

Shiv. NK prabhpal at digital-infotech.net
Fri Jun 1 12:32:30 UTC 2012


> Hi,
>
> Am 01.06.2012 um 13:48 schrieb Shiv. NK:
>
>>
>> Dear Community Members,
>>
>> It is FreeBSD 9.0 release, system was functioning normal for many months
>> now.  Today I enabled Xserver in "/etc/rc.conf"
>>
>> gdm_enable="YES"
>> gnome_enable="YES
>>
>> After 5 minutes of booting some process start killing the cpu, than
>> eventually with in 7 minutes, processor get stack to 99.9%
>>
>> The load average was terribly big that was 57,34,23. Whereas it never
>> hist
>> above 1.x
>>
>> I tried to look for the process by typing "htop" output is filled by the
>> following command.
>>
>> 2239 mark     122   0  192M 15916     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.19
>> /usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon
>
> According to
>
>         http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21880
>
> the reason is some PackageKit Update Applet which is running wild spawning
> processes.
>
> So either of the following might work (all untested):
>
> - 'System->Preferences->Personal->Sessions and then Untick "PackageKit
> Update Applet"'
>
> - "In my case, after installing gnome-lite it is functioning properly. I
> also installed xorg from ports."
>
> - Remove packagekit completely
>         cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit
>         make deinstall
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Holger


Dear Holger. K,

This is brilliant !!!

you did hit the nail, direct in to the head.

Following fixed the problem:

cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit
make deinstall

Weldone, Thanks








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