[Bug 37051] New: telepath-butterfly uses 100% CPU, causing laptop to overheat

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37051

           Summary: telepath-butterfly uses 100% CPU, causing laptop to
                    overheat
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: butterfly
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jonolumb at gmail.com
         QAContact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org


Empathy Version: 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
Telepath Butterfly Version: 0.5.15-1
Ubuntu Natty 11.04

When I use MSN in Empathy, sometimes the client has problems logging in, at
which point the CPU usage of the telepathy-butterfly process promptly rises to
100% and stays at 100% until it is manually killed. Whilst I am unsure of the
exact cause of this problem, I have noticed that it can be triggered quite
easily by opening Empathy, waiting for login, suspending the computer, then
waking up from suspend.

This bug could be especially pernicious for laptop users such as myself - I've
already had core temperatures of 80°C+ when I've left my room unaware that the
process had gone haywire - and was slowly cooking my computer!

This bug has actually been around for a while, there is a downstream Ubuntu bug
filed here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-butterfly/+bug/544630

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

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