[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#576954: seems to be related to system locale

[jtra-bugs at seznam.cz]

Hi,

I did not have this problem before updating from unstable (last updated about fall 2010) to released squeeze. This is on Dell notebook D610. It has sata hard drive and non-sata cd/dvd rw drive.

Problems manifests in this ways:
1. udisk-daemon and dbus-daemon both eating 21% CPU each after logging to X. They may eat more after a while.
2. one user on system using sawfish window manager (instead of default metacity) with gnome can login and work with gnome, but with increased CPU usage caused by the daemons.
3. other newly created user (to avoid old gnome configuration in home) has unusable gnome (no panel is displayed, but desktop icons are, it cannot be used to run programs; sometimes desktop does not even appear, only grey background).

All of these problems can be solved temporarily by "killall nautilus" (say from non-X console if gnome is unusable). After this solution, gnome-panel restarts and works, also no high CPU consumption is seen, so all is ok until next reboot.

But that is not solution I liked. 

Searching on the net revealed that some Gentoo users found solution in disabling some automounting feature in gnome and others in using different locale. I have tried also some solution to tell hald to stop polling cd drive, but that did not help.

I tried changing locales and it did make a difference. I used "dpkg-reconfigure locales" to select them. I normally use cz_CZ (that uses ISO-8895-2).

Results of tens of reboots with different locales:
cs_CZ - problem
cs_CZ.UTF-8 - no problem
en_US - no problem
pl_PL - problem
pl_PL.UTF-8 - no problem
ru_RU - problem
ru_RU.UTF-8 - no problem

Also "dpkg-reconfigure locales" breaks the high CPU consumption loop while invoking locale-gen in postinst script which does it by doing this:
rm -rf /usr/lib/locale/*
(only file being there is "locale-archive")

I hope this helps somebody to fix the issue.

Jakub Travnik