@mr. goose Information about kpackagekitsmarticon is discussed in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261180, the linked upstream bug.
Incidentally, if killing kpackagekitsmarticon doesn't help, you might want to try this command, suggested in the KDE bug report. It will report how many files are open on each process. ls /proc/| awk '{if($1+0==0) print " "; else system("echo `ls /proc/"$1+0"/fd|wc -l` "$1" `cat /proc/"$1+0"/cmdline` ")}' | sort -nr | head When I run it, for example, I get (after a bunch of permission denied messages): 598 1505 //bin/dbus-daemon--fork--print-pid5--print-address7--session 518 15435 /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kpackagekitsmarticon 107 6094 /usr/lib/thunderbird-6.0.2/thunderbird-bin 89 1688 akonadiserver 78 11625 /usr/lib/firefox-6.0.2/firefox-bin 72 1690 /usr/sbin/mysqld--defaults-file=/home/xxxxxxx/.local/share/akonadi//mysql.conf--datadir=/home/jcharonk/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/--socket=/home/jcharonk/.local/share/akonadi/socket-xxxxxxx/mysql.socket 68 1647 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit] 65 1731 /usr/bin/krunner 51 1686 /usr/bin/akonadi_control 47 1728 /usr/bin/nepomukservicestubnepomukstorage As you can see, dbus-daemon is already up to 598 files, and most of these belong to kpackagekitsmarticon (518). I'm well on my way to needing to kill it again. See if you can spot another program that's behaving badly this way - maybe there's more than one culprit and the fix suggested for KStatusNotifierItem in kdelibs needs to be adapted to that program as well. Or, if you don't have too many open files, it could be that you've found a different problem entirely with dbus. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/680444 Title: dbus-daemon eats 100% cpu and is not responsive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/680444/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs