Confirming this - it only started affecting me since upgrading to 12.04. When I login lightdm seems to freeze for ages, switching to another terminal and running top I can see gwibber-service taking most of the CPU, killing it gets me to a desktop.
(tested with login to gnome shell desktop). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gwibber in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554005 Title: Using some glib functions within multiprocessing from a threaded app sometimes causes 100% CPU utilization Status in “desktopcouch” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “libgnome-keyring” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “desktopcouch” source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in “gwibber” source package in Lucid: Fix Released Status in “libgnome-keyring” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Bug description: 1. set up Gwibber accounts with passwords stored in the keyring 2. restart your computer 3. wait for gwibber to autostart Eventually gwibber-service will hit 100% CPU utilization. desktopcouch-service also sometimes suffers from this. More details to be added soon. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libgnome-keyring0 2.30.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Apr 2 08:02:03 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: libgnome-keyring To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/desktopcouch/+bug/554005/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

