Ubuntu
plymouth package

plymouthd process still running, chewing processor after boot

Bug #609285 reported by Yves Glodt
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plymouth (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: plymouth

I observe plymouthd causing 25 wakeups/second on my up2date Maverick install. This is Kubuntu in case it matters.

Look at the screenshot to see it. And look at the general number of wakeups which is ridiculous.

p.s.
I remember times having < 50 wakeups in total. Since some time Ubuntu drains my battery like crazy, not even comparable to the vista I have on another partition.

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Yves Glodt (yglodt) wrote :
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Luis Silva (lacsilva) wrote :

Same here. I worked around the problem by removing the "quiet splash" parameters from grub.

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Götz Christ (g-christ) wrote :

Same problem here, tested with Lucid, PowerTOP 1.13 and kernel 2.6.34.1, plymouthd is causing 25 wakeups/second.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

The problem is not that plymouth is causing wakeups; the problem is that plymouth is running /at all/ after boot. It should be stopped once the system is booted.

summary: - plymouthd causes 25 wakeups
+ plymouthd process still running, chewing processor after boot
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bug Reporter 11 (bugreporter11) wrote :

this affects me on Kubuntu 12.04.
is there a fix or workaround?

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