Folks, Updates had been working fine for me until today (5/19/2016). I updated my machines last night(all 11 of them) and now all are experiencing the aforementioned problem with 100% CPU usage from appstreamcli.
It appears that in my case at least that something applied last night must be triggering the problem as I have had no problems with apt update until today. I was able to "Ctrl C" out of the update command and install some updates but have to "assume" that I had gotten them all since the update command never completed. I will try and get the above fix applied to at least some of my machines tomorrow. How will users be able to apply the fix if they can't get past the apt update command hanging (other than manual intervention that is)? Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579712 Title: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string Status in appstream package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in appstream source package in Xenial: Fix Committed Bug description: [Impact] * The cache refresh is blocked on a strdup on a non-NULL-terminated string in some very rare occasions (very rare because this bug is present for almost 3y without a single report). * Fixing this bug resolves the issue for people who might experience it. * See https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/35 for details. [Test Case 1] * Run `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force` * The AppStream cache should be updated, no change in behavior should be seen. [Test Case 2] * In case you were experiencing the almost-infinite hang when running `sudo appstreamcli refresh --force`, this issue should be fixed with the SRU. [Regression Potential] * Very low, since this only fixes the decompression code. There should be no sideeffects of that (given that the patch itself doesn't break anything, which it shouldn't, since it has been tested upstream for a while) [Other Info] * This fix has been applied upstream: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/f33c520c37e2ba51d92402220250b8d501a2bf43 * A smaller version of the patch (one-liner) is available, at the expense of not having reduced memory usage: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/commit/378941787d3584b3eb31a6ebe40e0aacc10e180a To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1579712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
