freebsd stable - Jun 2012 - Gnome consume 100% cpu FreeBSD_9.0

Dear Community Members,

It is FreeBSD 9.0 release, system was functioning normal for many months
now.  Today I enabled Xserver in ?/etc/rc.conf?

gdm_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES

After 5 minutes of booting some process start killing the cpu, than
eventually with in 7 minutes, processor get stack to 99.9%

The load average was terribly big that was 57,34,23. Whereas it never hist
above 1.x

I tried to look for the process by typing ?htop? output is filled by the
following command.

2239 mark     122   0  192M 15916     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.19
/usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon
 2238 mark     126   0  192M 15824     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.25
/usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon
 2237 mark    122   0  192M 15864     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.21
/usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon
 2236 mark    127   0  192M 15848     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.21
/usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon

It seems to related gnome but I am unable to understand what is that. I
need help

Thanks / Regards

Hi,

Am 01.06.2012 um 13:48 schrieb Shiv. NK:
>
> Dear Community Members,
>
> It is FreeBSD 9.0 release, system was functioning normal for many months
> now.  Today I enabled Xserver in "/etc/rc.conf"
>
> gdm_enable="YES"
> gnome_enable="YES
>
> After 5 minutes of booting some process start killing the cpu, than
> eventually with in 7 minutes, processor get stack to 99.9%
>
> The load average was terribly big that was 57,34,23. Whereas it never hist
> above 1.x
>
> I tried to look for the process by typing "htop" output is filled
by the
> following command.
>
> 2239 mark     122   0  192M 15916     0 S  0.0  0.8  0:00.19
> /usr/local/bin/gpk-update-icon
According to

        http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21880

the reason is some PackageKit Update Applet which is running wild spawning
processes.

So either of the following might work (all untested):

- 'System->Preferences->Personal->Sessions and then Untick
"PackageKit Update Applet"'

- "In my case, after installing gnome-lite it is functioning properly. I
also installed xorg from ports."

- Remove packagekit completely
        cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/packagekit
        make deinstall

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Holger



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