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#1 2011-01-23 15:55:28

molecula21
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Registered: 2010-10-20
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[SOLVED] upowerd going rampage

Since yesterday, for no apparent reason, each time i login upowerd uses 100% CPU and never goes down. I'm using XFCE and everything is up to date. I didn't find anything relevant around here, so anyone has any idea how to solve this? it is killing my battery life!

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#2 2011-01-23 21:21:12

molecula21
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Registered: 2010-10-20
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Re: [SOLVED] upowerd going rampage

After some testing i found out that the acpi_call command to shut down my Nvidia card (Asus U30JC with Optimus enabled) was triggering the upowerd rampage. I downgraded the upower package from 0.9.8-2 to 0.9.7-2 and everything is back to normal. I didn't go through the upower changelog, but something must have changed in the daemon that didn't like the nvidia being shutted down. Anyone has seen something like this?

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#3 2011-01-24 14:02:19

JGC
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Re: [SOLVED] upowerd going rampage

You could try to bisect the problem using git and report bugs to the upstream bugtracker about that.

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#4 2011-04-20 21:22:11

FreeTheBee
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Registered: 2011-01-02
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Re: [SOLVED] upowerd going rampage

I hope this is not considered necro-bumping, but I thought it to be relevant. I just noticed I had the same problem with upower 0.9.8-2 and acpi_call. Since I did not have 0.9.7-2 in my pacman cache anymore I decided to try 0.9.9-1 in testing first. For me this solved the problem as well.

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#5 2011-09-24 15:49:26

funkeymonkey
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Registered: 2011-09-24
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Re: [SOLVED] upowerd going rampage

I had this problem too.  I couldn't downgrade upower because the packages weren't there. But I figured out that if you make the acpi calls to turn off the nvidia card after the xorg server has been loaded, then upowerd doesn't freak out and use 100% of your cpu.  Even if you logout and back in it still works.

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