[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU

I can confirm the steps in comment 24 fixed the issue. Thanks! (and now everyone waits for uplift from -proposed) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to appstream in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579712 Title:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1579712] Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

I have appstream 0.9.4-1 installed and every time it is run (automatically, not by me) it spikes cpu to 100%. I cannot even purge and reinstall it, because it is run during the setup phase (to force a new index) which pegs the cpu. Is 0.9.4-1 supposed to be ~= 0.9.6 of upstream? -- You received

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1583829] Re: aptitude update -> appstreamcli uses 100% cpu

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1579712 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1579712 I'm suffering the same issue. `sudo apt purge appstream` did not save me. Now it's locked at 100% cpu when I `sudo apt install appstream`. Won't finish setting up appstream 0.9.4-1, htop says the command