More information: I finally located the controls I needed in System Monitor. Of course, under Unity the menus had migrated from the actual application window up to the system's top bar. What a confusing mess! Whoever came up with that grand idea should be flayed with thousands of wet noodles. But I digress...
The actual program which was using 100% CPU was Dropbox, running as root, attempting an update. I have reported that bug to Dropbox. So this bug report becomes: When some other process is running at 100% root CPU on one processor, software install attempts stall forever even if other processors are available. -- Vernon -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to jockey in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873439 Title: software install attempt stalls with 100 percent CPU Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Using Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 64 bit -- clean installed on a brand new laptop (dual boot with Windows 7). When I tried to load ATI/AMD proprietary drivers, the install process stalled at about 2/3 done in the "downloading and installing drive" dialogue window. System monitor shows one CPU at 100%, and the other at about 30%. All systems functions are very slow, especially network I/O. (am using wifi) I cannot tell accurately what process is using the CPU due to lack of an "all process" selection in System Monitor under Unity. Earlier today I experienced a similar problem when running Ubuntu Software Center, so I suspect a common cause. [Note -- this system had the installation crash with the just-fixed installer bug. It booted anyway, so I kept using it, assuming that software update would catch any serious problems. Perhaps a mistake, but installs worked okay until this morning.] ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.4-0ubuntu10 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Oct 13 09:38:58 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 MachineType: TOSHIBA Satellite C655D PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c398d88a-df67-41bc-b6ea-73ccd3f8d0e1 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: jockey UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/07/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Corp. dmi.bios.version: 1.50 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Portable PC dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA dmi.board.version: Base Board Version dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: AMD dmi.chassis.version: None dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsydeCorp.:bvr1.50:bd04/07/2011:svnTOSHIBA:pnSatelliteC655D:pvrPSC0YU-00T002:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrBaseBoardVersion:cvnAMD:ct10:cvrNone: dmi.product.name: Satellite C655D dmi.product.version: PSC0YU-00T002 dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/873439/+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
