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[Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

** No longer affects: menu-cache (Ubuntu Zesty)

** No longer affects: menu-cache (Ubuntu Trusty)

** Description changed:

- For 17.10, please treat this as a 0-day SRU bug report.
- 
  [Impact]
  
  Without this bugfix, users who resume from suspend will be greeted with
  a heavy CPU load when they resume. This is especially bad for older
  computers who may not be able to hand a large CPU load, and menu-cache
  is included by default in Lubuntu, where this is especially important.
  
  [Test Case]
  
  1. Suspend your computer with the menu-cache process running.
  2. Resume from suspend.
  3. Try to press Alt + F2 or use any other program which calls menu-cached.
  
  It should work as normal, but it uses up a lot of CPU power.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
  This bugfix cherry picks an upstream commit that hasn't been tagged yet.
  As such, there might be additional improvements before it is released.
  
  Also, this modifies how processes are handled; specifically, it
  terminates any processes which return a socket error. This could
  eventually bitrot and result in processes returning valid values but it
  really shows as an error.
  
  While all of those are theoretical, it is definitely a possibility.
  Other than those two considerations, the regression risk is low.
  
  [Original Description]
  
  Hey all,
  
  I don't know you guys are looking for the issues opened on Github
  (https://github.com/lxde/menu-cache/issues/) - currently there are 5
  reported there, but I'd like to report specifically for the menu-cached
  process using 100% of CPU (we also have an issue opened on Github for
  this with lots of comments: https://github.com/lxde/menu-
  cache/issues/7).
  
  I'm using a brand new installation of Lubuntu 16.10 in my laptop.
  
  I noticed the machine temperature was too hot (96 degrees!!!) so I took
  a look on top and the menu-cached was the guilty. I killed it and
  everything was as usual again.
  
  I just don't know if it was because I returned from the suspended mode
  or if it's because I tried to run a custom command with "Open With". I
  did both in sequence/same session.
  
  $ dpkg -l |grep -iP "menu.*?cache"
  ii  libmenu-cache-bin                           1.0.1-1build1                               amd64
  ii  libmenu-cache3:amd64                        1.0.1-1build1                               amd64
  
  Thanks

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Title:
  menu-cached process is using 100% CPU

Status in menu-cache package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in menu-cache source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in menu-cache source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in menu-cache source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Without this bugfix, users who resume from suspend will be greeted
  with a heavy CPU load when they resume. This is especially bad for
  older computers who may not be able to hand a large CPU load, and
  menu-cache is included by default in Lubuntu, where this is especially
  important.

  [Test Case]

  1. Suspend your computer with the menu-cache process running.
  2. Resume from suspend.
  3. Try to press Alt + F2 or use any other program which calls menu-cached.

  It should work as normal, but it uses up a lot of CPU power.

  [Regression Potential]

  This bugfix cherry picks an upstream commit that hasn't been tagged
  yet. As such, there might be additional improvements before it is
  released.

  Also, this modifies how processes are handled; specifically, it
  terminates any processes which return a socket error. This could
  eventually bitrot and result in processes returning valid values but
  it really shows as an error.

  While all of those are theoretical, it is definitely a possibility.
  Other than those two considerations, the regression risk is low.

  [Original Description]

  Hey all,

  I don't know you guys are looking for the issues opened on Github
  (https://github.com/lxde/menu-cache/issues/) - currently there are 5
  reported there, but I'd like to report specifically for the menu-
  cached process using 100% of CPU (we also have an issue opened on
  Github for this with lots of comments: https://github.com/lxde/menu-
  cache/issues/7).

  I'm using a brand new installation of Lubuntu 16.10 in my laptop.

  I noticed the machine temperature was too hot (96 degrees!!!) so I
  took a look on top and the menu-cached was the guilty. I killed it and
  everything was as usual again.

  I just don't know if it was because I returned from the suspended mode
  or if it's because I tried to run a custom command with "Open With". I
  did both in sequence/same session.

  $ dpkg -l |grep -iP "menu.*?cache"
  ii  libmenu-cache-bin                           1.0.1-1build1                               amd64
  ii  libmenu-cache3:amd64                        1.0.1-1build1                               amd64

  Thanks

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