Can't stop gnome-system-monitor

[olipoh1]

Hi everybody (and sorry for my english),

since a few days (maybe one week and after an automatic upgrade), I could see a strange behavior of gnome-system-monitor.

After a boot, everything is normal. But if I log-out, and then log-in again, the problem begins. Impossible to close the gnome-system-monitor window (by clicking on the window upper-right close button). I have to terminate the process. And this process takes about 50% of CPU. In the same time, a dbus-deamon process takes the other 50%. When I terminate gnome-system-monitor process, the CPU use drops down to 6%.

I use ubuntu 10.04 64 bits.

Any idea ?
Thanks a lot.

[sikander3786]

But if I log-out, and then log-in again, the problem begins. Impossible to close the gnome-system-monitor window (by clicking on the window upper-right close button).

Hi and welcome to the forums. :-)

What do you mean by that statement? Does gnome-system-monitor start automatically after you login? Or you start it to see which program is eating up the processor and then you are unable to close it?

gnome-system-monitor uses a lot of resources to display the system status so in some cases it might eat up some processor power. What are your system specs?

[olipoh1]

Does gnome-system-monitor start automatically after I login? No.
Or I start it to see which program is eating up the processor and then I'm unable to close it? Yes but only when I login after I logged out, with dbus-deamon eating the processor to.

lshw (is that what you wanted to see ?) :


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thank you anyway for your help.

[sikander3786]

Processor, RAM or Graphics bottlenecks shouldn't be a problem with your specs.

That dbus-daemon can cause problems due to Samba. Do you use Samba? If not, you can remove it and see if it helps.

[olipoh1]

Thank you again for your help.

I uninstalled samba, and nothing changed. But something is strange. In gnome-system-monitor, gnome-system-monitor itself appears as a running process (42% CPU), and dbus-deamon is "sleeping" (48% !!!!).

I tried to launch gnome-system-monitor as root (sudo gnome-system-monitor in a terminal), and it works fine. Dbus-deamon eats 0% and I can close the monitor. I tried to login as another user. Same problem. Only root works fine.

And when I launch gnome-system-monitor in a terminal, There is this message : ** (gnome-system-monitor:14174): WARNING **: SELinux was found but is not enabled.

Where to look now ?

[olipoh1]

any idea ?