I can confirm this. In my case it does so when I try to add a printer, the process hangs and completely eats up the CPU. Killing it doesn't work as it restarts into taking 100% of CPU again until a system restart. (haven't tried just restarting GNOME)
-- gnome-cups-icon constantly uses >75% of CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/45421 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
