Bug#851623: Process spawned by package constantly causes traffic on loopback network device
Package: xbrlapi
Version: 5.4-4
After installing Debian Stretch last week, I noticed constant network
activity which shouldn't be there on lo and which looks like this:
root@breizh:/home/acki# nethogs -a -t
Adding local address: xxxxx
Adding local address: xxxxx
Ethernet link detected
Adding local address: 127.0.0.1
Ethernet link detected
Waiting for first packet to arrive (see sourceforge.net bug 1019381)
Refreshing:
unknown TCP/0/0 0 0
Refreshing:
127.0.0.1:43580-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
127.0.0.1:4101-127.0.0.1:43578/0/0 0.0210938 0
127.0.0.1:43578-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
unknown TCP/0/0 0 0
Refreshing:
127.0.0.1:43584-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
127.0.0.1:43582-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
127.0.0.1:43580-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
127.0.0.1:4101-127.0.0.1:43578/0/0 0.0421875 0
127.0.0.1:43578-127.0.0.1:4101/0/0 0.0144531 0
unknown TCP/0/0 0 0
...
After some research I found out that uninstalling xbrlapi,
which got installed as a recommended package by gnome-orca
solves the issue.
I believe a package that can't find its hardware shouldn't
do such aggressive polling and thus this should be fixed.
Note: For the network activity on lo to end, a reboot was
necessary, just logging off and on again from the X-Session
didn't solve the issue.
I haven't got any braille-related hardware and I didn't select
intentionally any braille-related package.
Here's someone from France who had the same issue and whose
advice I followed:
https://debian-facile.org/viewtopic.php?pid=200466#p200466
My architecture is amd64.
Sorry for any inconvenience, this is my first bug report ever
for Debian.
-Acki
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