[Bug 1860985] Re: packagekitd using 100% CPU

[Owen Savill]

So now running at about 33% CPU. It was a broken update PPA. Really!
Exactly how many times a second are the PPAs being checked for updates?!
It's a broken PPA, surely the package manager can handle a broken PPA
better than 100% CPU usage. And exactly what is it doing that requires
20% CPU usage when it's idle?!

Is there an admin program for this? I think it only needs to update a
couple of times a day. The only admin I've found offers very few options
as to the frequency of update checking and none of them seem to work. It
slows down boot, even though this should be disabled and it's consuming
far too much CPU given that it's showing as auto checks disabled.

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Title:
  packagekitd using 100% CPU

Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  That's all I can report at this stage. Any attempt to kill it or
  disable the service fails and up goes its CPU usage, fans blowing the
  works!

  packagekit status give 
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 https[820460]: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 http[820454]: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 store[820894]: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 https[820443]: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 https[820455]: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 PackageKit[437888]: uid 1000 is trying to obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (only_trusted:0)
  Jan 27 13:59:02 owen-Precision-M4600 PackageKit[437888]: uid 1000 obtained auth for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
  Jan 27 13:59:03 owen-Precision-M4600 PackageKit[437888]: refresh-cache transaction /29159_bdcaeddd from uid 1000 finished with cancelled-priority after 2137ms
  Jan 27 13:59:03 owen-Precision-M4600 PackageKit[437888]: uid 1000 is trying to obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (only_trusted:0)
  Jan 27 13:59:03 owen-Precision-M4600 PackageKit[437888]: uid 1000 obtained auth for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh

  I am uid: 1000. It would be helpful if it gave some indication as to
  "the application". I can't find anywhere to admin this. It looks like
  my trust level is too low "only_trusted:0"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: packagekit 1.1.13-2
  Uname: Linux 5.5.0-050500rc7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Mon Jan 27 13:54:13 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-06 (782 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
  SourcePackage: packagekit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2019-11-13 (74 days ago)

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