Description of problem: Sometimes after a certain while after fresh boot top shows something like the following: top - 17:26:06 up 2:03, 2 users, load average: 2.93, 3.12, 3.17 Tasks: 112 total, 5 running, 107 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 48.8%us, 40.9%sy, 10.3%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1034360k total, 1018448k used, 15912k free, 42412k buffers Swap: 2931852k total, 38192k used, 2893660k free, 572028k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5225 root 20 0 3436 1328 1160 R 80.8 0.1 73:14.44 hald-addon-inpu 9102 root 30 10 77552 74m 1464 R 8.0 7.3 5:33.33 scrollkeeper-up 6207 root 20 0 163m 25m 10m S 3.7 2.5 6:47.18 Xorg It has to be killed because it doesn't stop by itself even after many minutes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.10-1.fc8.2 How reproducible: Occurs sometime after boot appears to be aggravated by wireless/bluetooth devices.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9027
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:57:19 -0700 From: John Westlund <john.westlund> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Woodard <bwoodard> Subject: Bugzilla Bug 452557: hald-addon-input using 100% of a core Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Ben, If you get a chance could you see if you could get this low hanging fruit knocked off? Two-line patch, very straight forward. Bugzilla is pretty empty, the Ubuntu ticket has more details and the patch. John
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/203679
* Fri Jul 18 2008 David Zeuthen <davidz> - 0.5.10-4 - fix runaway input add-on (#452557) http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=725357
hal-0.5.10-4.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
hal-0.5.10-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update hal'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-6553
hal-0.5.10-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.