Re: jessie: stalled transfer notifications

Hi Doc,

Although I am not experiencing those issues myself, I can guess which
process(es) are responsible for those notifications and the CPU usage. Do you
have KPackageKit, Apper or something similar installed? There are also a couple
of different packages for update notifications related to this. You may want to
`dpkg -l *update*` and `dpkg -l *noti*' (for notify, notification, notifier) to find
packages related to this. I remember removing one or two of those packages
a while back, that got installed with an update.

Personally, I do not have very good experiences with these notifiers/GUIs on top
of apt, but if you actually want to use them then it may be worth investigating
more what causes the problems. If not, I would advise simply removing the
packages and using apt or aptitude directly.

Hope it helps!

Thom

2016-06-04 18:10 GMT+02:00 D. R. Evans <doc.evans@gmail.com>:

For the past few days, there have been several notifications on my desktop
that refuse to terminate. (By this I mean that the little circle with the
number of notifications has been sitting there with a non-zero number.)

Right now, as I write this, the number of notifications is "10". Five of these
are "Getting updates", and the other five are "Refreshing package cache". I
associate these sorts of message with "dpkg" or "apt", but there is no process
with those names running.

The plasma-desktop process is using about 42% CPU, and nothing I have tried
has either changed the amount of CPU being used, nor killed any of the jobs
associated with the notifications.

I have tried logging out and logging back in (several times), but that has no
noticeable effect at all: the notifications remain, as does the CPU usage.

Any suggestions as to how to get back to a situation with zero notifications
and minimal CPU usage?

For what it's worth, I have no idea at all what happened to cause this
aberrant behaviour.

Doc

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