Hi Doc, Although I am not experiencing those issues myself, I can guess which process(es) are responsible for those notifications and the CPU usage. Do you have KPackageKit, Apper or something similar installed? There are also a couple of different packages for update notifications related to this. You may want to `dpkg -l *update*` and `dpkg -l *noti*' (for notify, notification, notifier) to find packages related to this. I remember removing one or two of those packages a while back, that got installed with an update.
Personally, I do not have very good experiences with these notifiers/GUIs on top of apt, but if you actually want to use them then it may be worth investigating more what causes the problems. If not, I would advise simply removing the packages and using apt or aptitude directly. Hope it helps! Thom 2016-06-04 18:10 GMT+02:00 D. R. Evans <[email protected]>: > For the past few days, there have been several notifications on my desktop > that refuse to terminate. (By this I mean that the little circle with the > number of notifications has been sitting there with a non-zero number.) > > Right now, as I write this, the number of notifications is "10". Five of > these > are "Getting updates", and the other five are "Refreshing package cache". I > associate these sorts of message with "dpkg" or "apt", but there is no > process > with those names running. > > The plasma-desktop process is using about 42% CPU, and nothing I have tried > has either changed the amount of CPU being used, nor killed any of the jobs > associated with the notifications. > > I have tried logging out and logging back in (several times), but that has > no > noticeable effect at all: the notifications remain, as does the CPU usage. > > Any suggestions as to how to get back to a situation with zero > notifications > and minimal CPU usage? > > For what it's worth, I have no idea at all what happened to cause this > aberrant behaviour. > > Doc > > -- > Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR > >
