Bug#538215: gnome-applets: mixer-applet eats my CPU

[Olivier Berger]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.24.3.1-2+b1
Severity: normal

Hi.

My CPU seems very busy and suddenly I notice, in top :
 4688 olivier   20   0 74444 7948 6780 S 60.2  1.0   2659:25 mixer_applet2

mixer-applet is eating more than 50% of my CPU, which is really weird : no sound playing... nothing really special happening ATM on the computer otherwise...

Thanks in advance if you can help debug why.

In the meantime, I'm gonna kill it.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2+p4b266acpiforce.2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-applets depends on:
ii  gconf2       2.26.2-1                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-applet 2.24.3.1-2                  Various applets for GNOME 2 panel 
ii  gnome-icon-t 2.26.0-1                    GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-panel  2.24.3-1+b1                 launcher and docking facility for 
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.23-3                   GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.15-2                   GStreamer plugin for ESD
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.13-1                   GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.15-2                   GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  gstreamer0.1 0.10.15-2                   GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  gvfs         1.2.2-2                     userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libapm1      3.2.2-13                    Library for interacting with APM d
ii  libatk1.0-0  1.26.0-1                    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonoboui2 2.24.1-1                    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6        2.9-12                      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcpufreq0  005-1                       shared library to deal with the cp
ii  libdbus-1-3  1.2.14-3                    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib 0.80-4                      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4  2.26.2-1                    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2                    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-des 2.26.1-1                    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0  2.26.0-1                    The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomekbd3 2.26.0-1                    GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1                    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgstreamer 0.10.23-3                   GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer 0.10.23-2                   Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.16.1-2                    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtop2-7   2.26.1-1                    gtop system monitoring library
ii  libgucharmap 1:2.26.2-1                  Unicode browser widget library (sh
ii  libgweather1 2.26.1-1                    GWeather shared library
ii  libhal1      0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1                     sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liboobs-1-4  2.22.0-2                    GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpanel-app 2.24.3-1+b1                 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0- 1.24.0-3+b1                 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-db 0.9-4                       library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2   0.9-4                       library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  libwnck22    2.26.1-1                    Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6     2:1.2.1-1                   X11 client-side library
ii  libxklavier1 3.9-1                       X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2      2.7.3.dfsg-2                GNOME XML library
ii  python       2.5.4-2                     An interactive high-level object-o

Versions of packages gnome-applets recommends:
ii  cpufrequtils                 005-1       utilities to deal with the cpufreq
ii  deskbar-applet               2.24.3-1+b2 universal search and navigation ba
ii  gnome-media                  2.26.0-1    GNOME media utilities
ii  gnome-netstatus-applet       2.12.2-1    Network status applet for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-system-monitor         2.26.2-1    Process viewer and system resource
ii  policykit-gnome              0.9.2-2     GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  python-gnome2                2.26.1-1    Python bindings for the GNOME desk

Versions of packages gnome-applets suggests:
ii  acpid                         1.0.10-2   Utilities for using ACPI power man
pn  tomboy                        <none>     (no description available)

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