update-notifier using to much CPU

Bug #29990 reported by Milo Casagrande
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update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When I have some update to download, the update-notifier icon is not present in the notification area. Using top I can see that update-notifier is using up to 60% of CPU (and xorg goes up to 30%) with system slowdown. Killing the update-notifier process everything return normal.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. Your problem seems similar to the one in bug #5612. You may prefer to add comments to the other bug discussion, and mark this bug as a duplicate.

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