Diodon

Corrupt database leads to CPU spike

Bug #2131006 reported by mmalmeida
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Bug Description

I've been using diodon for years.

version: 1.13.0

Since a couple of weeks ago, on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, diodon uses 100% of the cpu and is not usable (meaning the paste doesn't work while it's at 100%.

I have tried reinstalling it but no luck.

I am willing to test to debug it.

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mmalmeida (mmalmeida) wrote :

I've also tried lowering the kernel from 6.14.0-35-generic to 6.14.0-34-generic

One thing I wanted to try was to clean the clipboard, but don't know where I can do it from in the terminal (since I can't even access the menu)

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Oliver Sauder (sao) wrote :

Most likely a corrupt database. Diodon uses Zeitgeist as a backend and its database needs to be removed.

You can do the following to do this:

killall diodon
killall zeitgeist-daemon
rm ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite

and then start Diodon again and see whether it works as expected.

Changed in diodon:
status: New → Incomplete
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mmalmeida (mmalmeida) wrote :

I confirm this process resolves the issue.

Thank you!

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Oliver Sauder (sao) wrote :

Great that this resolved the issue. Closing this but great to have this, so people will find the workaround which actually very rarely is needed, mainly when the database grows too heavily and reaches a limit. An issue in Zeitgeist actually and not Diodon.

summary: - CPU at 100% and not usable
+ Corrupt database leads to CPU spike
Changed in diodon:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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