[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#669338: "chromium --service" launched from kde startup file eats 100% CPU (Re: May not be (just) Chromium)

[David Baron]

On Monday 30 April 2012 15:14:35 David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 29 April 2012 22:21:19 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > tags 669338 + moreinfo
> > quit
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > David Baron wrote:
> > > Problem may be in KDE with Chromium, maybe its flash plugin, triggering
> > > or worsening the problem.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it's hard to see what to do with this report without
> > pinning it down more.
> > 
> > Some variables mentioned have been:
> >  * chromium
> >  * KDE
> >  * nvidia driver
> >  * flash plugin
> > 
> > If you can reproduce this booting from a live cd (e.g., a Debian Live
> > CD[1]), that could help.  If you can remember when this started
> > happening and confirm your guess by trying to reproduce this with and
> > without the upgraded package, that upgrade, that would also help.  If
> > you can rule out the nvidia driver and flash plugin as causes by
> > disabling them temporarily, that would be useful as well.
> 
> There are two questions:
> 
> 1. Why does that "service" keep coming back even if I explicitly delete it?
> Could this be KDE's flag of Chromium as default-browser?
> 
> 2. Why the 100% CPU and memory. Since problems with KDE 4.7.4 with Nvidia
> have been cited, I can boot up to nouveau and see if such problems
> reoccur.

Running Nouveau, the same thing did occur so it is not an Nvidia driver issue.