Bug#392846: kicker: Eats up lots of cpu and occasionally hangs
Package: kicker
Version: 4:3.5.5a-1
Severity: important
After updating 2 machines to kicker 4:3.5.5a-1 I noticed the idle cpu on
both computers was quite high, and often 100%. Top revealed that
kicker was to blame. Further inspection showed that kicker would be
unresponsive and fail to redraw when the cpu hit 100%.
Running strace on kicker on one of the machines showed that it was
repeatedly trying to open xlcUTF-8.so.2, a file that does not exist in
any package. creating a link with that name to xlcUTF8Load.so.2.0.0
in /usr/lib/X11/locale/common seems to have solved that particular
issue, and resulted in slightly better kicker performance, but it is
still way, way worse than it should be.
Downgrading to 4:3.5.5-1 solved the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers dapper
APT policy: (500, 'dapper'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages kicker depends on:
ii kdebase-data 4:3.5.5a-1 shared data files for the KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfam0 2.7.0-10 Client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-15 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkonq4 4:3.5.5a-1 core libraries for Konqueror
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-15 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.3-2 X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-4 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxft2 2.1.10-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtst6 1:1.0.1-5 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
kicker recommends no packages.
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