[Bug 850935] Re: upstart-udev-bridge at 100% CPU

[Steve Magoun]

Backtrace via GDB:

steve at steve-laptop:~$ sudo gdb
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(gdb) attach 291
Attaching to process 291
Reading symbols from /sbin/upstart-udev-bridge...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnih.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnih.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libnih-dbus.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnih-dbus.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Loaded symbols for /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00007fee20388bf0 in write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fee210c0720 (LWP 291)):
#0  0x00007fee20388bf0 in write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007fee203285f3 in _IO_file_write () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007fee203284ba in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#3  0x00007fee20328f6e in _IO_file_xsputn () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#4  0x00007fee203015f6 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#5  0x00007fee202fc6ee in vfprintf () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#6  0x00007fee203ac0db in __fprintf_chk () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#7  0x00007fee20887e34 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#8  0x00007fee2087add2 in dbus_message_iter_append_basic () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3
#9  0x00007fee210effb0 in ?? ()
#10 0x00007fee210ed195 in ?? ()
#11 0x00007fee20cb843b in nih_io_handle_fds () from /lib/libnih.so.1
#12 0x00007fee20cbc365 in nih_main_loop () from /lib/libnih.so.1
#13 0x00007fee202d630d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#14 0x00007fee210eccb1 in ?? ()
#15 0x00007fffcb412578 in ?? ()
#16 0x000000000000001c in ?? ()
#17 0x0000000000000002 in ?? ()
#18 0x00007fffcb413f17 in ?? ()
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
#19 0x00007fffcb413f2b in ?? ()
#20 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) quit

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Title:
  upstart-udev-bridge at 100% CPU

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I noticed that upstart-udev-bridge was using 100% of one of my CPU
  cores. I noticed this after a compiz crash; I'm not sure if the
  problem was happening before the crash.

  Attached is an strace log:
  sudo strace -f -o upstart-udev-bridge.strace -v -p 291

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: upstart 1.3-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 15 09:30:34 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (12 days ago)

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