I did not have this issue until today, which I think resulted from an upgrade to gnome-settings-daemon. This morning, apt-get pulled in, among other things, a new version of g-s-d:
gnome-settings-daemon: Installed: 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 3.4.2-0ubuntu0.1 0 500 http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages However, I have not logged out since the update, and upon returning to a screensaver state, I found the bug as described above. Restarting g-s-d seems to have made the problem go away, for now. I postulate from my experience that some occurrences might result from an upgraded g-s-d not being restarted and therefore an old binary (still running) that is attempting to use new data files? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969359 Title: [keyboard]: gnome-settings-daemon consumes 100% cpu (and blinking numlock) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/969359/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs