ayatana-indicator-datetime-service takes all memory and CPU
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Today, when starting my x200 running aramo, after a few minutes, my laptop becomes hot, the fan blowing full speed and the disk LED heavily on. There is no way to regain control (trying to switch to console does not work) besides pressing the power button for several seconds until it switches off. I repeated the same 3 times.
I looked at processes and CPU and so the ayatana-indicator-datetime-service taking nearly 100% of the CPU and the amount of memory used growing rather fast. I killed the process before all memory was used and then the memory usage as shown by mate monitor immediately dropped form nearly 4 GB (the full memory) to less than 1GB. So I guess I lost control because the memory was getting full and the computer was massively using swap.
The only changes to my computer yesterday were upgrades and installing flatpak and gnome-software-plugin-flatpak which triggered the installation of gnome-software and a bunch if things.
Did anyone experience something like that?
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Exactly the same now happens on my t400 running aramo. I did not install gnome-software or flatpak there, so this was not the problem. Since that happens nearly at the same time on two independent computers, I suspect the problem comes from some software update.
If anyone has problems, run top in a terminal at session start, if something starting with ayatana is taking almost 100% CPU, kill it with "kill -9 pid" where pid is the numerical value in the first column.
EDIT: On another laptop with a fresh install of trisquel mini, no such problem. The two laptops were the problem occurs are running trisquel with mate desktop.