hplip taking 100% of CPU and running CPU temps up to 80C

RayDude

According to internet searches, this used to be a thing a long time ago.

But for me hplip is crashing and taking 100% of a CPU causing the CPU to run hot.

The kitties like it, but me not so much.

I killed the process, but I was wondering if anyone else has seen this issue and has an idea how to prevent it from happening.
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eccerr0r · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2023 5:21 pm Post subject:

Are you using the portage version or an out of portage version?
Which software release?

All I can say is that I have some remote managed machines with net-print/hplip-3.22.6 installed and don't see this behavior...
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RayDude · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:04 pm Post subject:

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22866

If you can reproduce this on demand, you could rebuild with debug symbols, trigger it, then capture a core dump to see where it is looping. This behavior can indicate that the application is expecting some condition to become false as a result of the application's logic, but the condition remains true, causing the application to remain awake and continue trying to change the state.