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[Davor Poznič <poznic.davor@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: compiz
  
  Occasionally my whole desktop hangs, only the mouse cursor moves. Compiz is running at 100% cpu usage in this loop (forever!):
-    0x00007f3a515866d0 <+224>:   mov    (%rax),%rax
+    0x00007f3a515866d0 <+224>:   mov    (%rax),%rax
  => 0x00007f3a515866d3 <+227>:   cmp    %edx,0x10(%rax)
-    0x00007f3a515866d6 <+230>:   jne    0x7f3a515866d0 <_ZN13InotifyScreen13processEventsEv+224>
+    0x00007f3a515866d6 <+230>:   jne    0x7f3a515866d0 <_ZN13InotifyScreen13processEventsEv+224>
  
  0x00007f3a515866d3 in InotifyScreen::processEvents() () from
  /usr/lib/compiz/libinotify.so
  
  I'm running natty amd64 with gnome2 (ubuntu classic) shell.
  
  After having a look at the source code of this specific plugin I suspect
  that there is a bug in an iterator loop. I created a patch, but haven't
  had time to test it so far. Maybe this helps.
+ 
+ Workaround: start ccsm, find "File Watcher" plugin and disable it.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773564

Title:
  compiz occasionally hangs with 100% cpu usage (inotify plugin infinite
  loop)