Ubuntu – upowerd hogging CPU

16.04processubuntu-mate

It appears that upowerd is hogging my cpu time, I killed the process, but it has returned, and is climbing in resource consumption. Do I need upower? can I disable it?

I am using ubuntu Mate 16.04.

heres a screen-shot from the top command
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Best Answer

From @JonasCz, whose comment was:

Do you happen to have an iPhone plugged into your computer ? If so, you may need to select "Trust this computer" on the phone (or disconnect it), which may fix it: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/861642

Unplugging the Iphone solved the issue, or was an acceptable answer for me.

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