Can confirm this happens on "apt-get update" command on Kubuntu 16.04. If I have more processes open when I try to run this it makes my computer unresponsive, not only because the processor is at 100% which is bad enough, but because it will start digging into swap, and I have 16GB of RAM. Terrible bug indeed!
Interestingly enough if I run "apt-get install update-notifier" it would appear as if it where not installed so it's all the more frustrating. For those that have problems with their computer being unusable from time to time there is a file in cron.daily and cron.weekly that starts this process automatically which you can comment out. Or if you want to disable it completely you can just: mv /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check.disabled touch apt-check chmod 777 $_ I'm not really sure what the above would break but it's better than having the system unusable in my opinion. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746508 Title: apt-check uses too much resources (starts too many processes) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/746508/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
