Here's a really easy way to reproduce this problem. Assuming you have an ssh keypair which allows you to login on your own machine, do this:
while `true`; do ssh localhost exit; done; console-kit-daemon will runaway with the CPU eventually. In my opinion this is a very serious problem for anybody running Ubuntu who has a lot of users or who has cron jobs. -- console-kit-daemon using a lot of cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284229 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs