I saw the same bug on 32bit x86, gnome-power-manager (2.19.5-0ubuntu1 from gutsy) wasting 1-10% of CPU. Strace was very similar:
.... [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6ff88) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6fe80) = 0 [pid 27866] read(20, "\1\0\0\0\361\37\247F\372%|4\1\0\0\0", 64) = 16 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x824bc40) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b700b8) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x1800) = 0 [pid 27866] poll([{fd=20, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70068) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x400) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6ffe8) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70138) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70088) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70068) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70048) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6ff88) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6fe80) = 0 [pid 27866] read(20, "\1\0\0\0\361\37\247Fe\243\3015\1\0\0\0", 64) = 16 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x824bc40) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b700b8) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x1c00) = 0 [pid 27866] poll([{fd=20, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70068) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0x400) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b6ffe8) = 0 [pid 27866] ioctl(21, 0x4122, 0xb4b70138) = 0 .... And this was spinning as fast as possible. Killing gnome-power-manager and restarting returned sanity. -- gnome-power-manager using between 2% and 10% of cpu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs