From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051215 Epiphany/1.9.5.1 Description of problem: dbus-daemon has gone crazy, and is hogging my cpu. strace | grep denied shows: readlink("/proc/self/exe", 0xbff492f8, 4095) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", 0xbff4e488, 31) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) readlink("/proc/self/fd/1", 0xbff4e488, 31) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) readlink("/proc/self/fd/2", 0xbff4e488, 31) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) sendto(6, " \1\0\0S\4\5\0\346\300\7\0\0\0\0\0avc: denied { "..., 288, 0, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000000}, 12) = 288 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
Looks like an SE-Linux issue. Are you up to date with rawhide?
Yep, and an autorelabel fixes it. Interestingly, killing dbus made evolution hog the cpu. An strace of evolution showed almost no activity. Weird.
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.2.5-1