Public bug reported:
I'm uninstalling Steam (with a two or three applications installed under steam.
I expect an uninstallation process to take a couple of minutes max.
What I'm seeing is somewhere between odd and suspicious.
It's taking 45 minutes to uninstall Steam, and this is on a machine with an
Intel Core i9 14900KF (32 cores), 64GB RAM, and a very fast SSD.
BTOP is showing gzip slammed for processing power and snapd taking up a bit.
Nearly all cores are idle and it would appear from my untrained eye that gzip
is limited to 2 cores which seems to be the root cause of this problem. I see
two cores being used significantly: both between 35% and 75% changing with
every refresh of btop.
I find it hard to imagine this is not a bug given the absurd time it
takes to remove an application.
Ubuntu 25.04 fully updated
Steam latest/stable 1.0.0.83
Expectation: Quick removal of software package from system.
What happened: An interminable wait as gzip is doing gawd knows what. It
shouldn't be used in a software removal process. This is the suspicious part.
** Affects: apport (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: app center uninstall
** Attachment added: "screenshot of app center doing the unistall with btop
showing the system"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2119394/+attachment/5896239/+files/Screenshot%20from%202025-07-17%2015-15-57.png
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2119394
Title:
Uninstallation hobbled by gzip
Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm uninstalling Steam (with a two or three applications installed under
steam.
I expect an uninstallation process to take a couple of minutes max.
What I'm seeing is somewhere between odd and suspicious.
It's taking 45 minutes to uninstall Steam, and this is on a machine with an
Intel Core i9 14900KF (32 cores), 64GB RAM, and a very fast SSD.
BTOP is showing gzip slammed for processing power and snapd taking up a bit.
Nearly all cores are idle and it would appear from my untrained eye that gzip
is limited to 2 cores which seems to be the root cause of this problem. I see
two cores being used significantly: both between 35% and 75% changing with
every refresh of btop.
I find it hard to imagine this is not a bug given the absurd time it
takes to remove an application.
Ubuntu 25.04 fully updated
Steam latest/stable 1.0.0.83
Expectation: Quick removal of software package from system.
What happened: An interminable wait as gzip is doing gawd knows what. It
shouldn't be used in a software removal process. This is the suspicious part.
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