After not be satisfied with any of the above workarounds to the problem
I decided to take a look at the problem and see if I could come up with
a "cleaner" workaround or fix.
I found that this problem occurs in Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity Gnome 3.18
GnomeShell Gnome 3.20, Budgie Gnome 3.18 and Fedora
I am also having this problem on multiple machines. Every time I hear the
fans running on high (except when I am remastering) its due to this bug.
I am running 16.04 64bit with Unity desktop.
Just wanted to add myself to the list of those seeing the problem.
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Folks, Updates had been working fine for me until today (5/19/2016).
I updated my machines last night(all 11 of them) and now all are
experiencing the aforementioned problem with 100% CPU usage from
appstreamcli.
It appears that in my case at least that something applied last
night must be trigge