Just had this issue. Linux Mint 18. Unlocked connected iPhone, selected "Trust this computer" from the prompt that was sitting there from when I connected it via USB, and upowerd CPU usage went down to 0.0.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upower in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861642 Title: upowerd uses 100% cpu till killed Status in upower package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: top - 12:57:54 up 2:56, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.12, 1.35 Tasks: 219 total, 2 running, 216 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu0 : 70.2%us, 29.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 2.3%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 1.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.7%us, 1.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.3%id, 1.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 5994176k total, 4198260k used, 1795916k free, 63308k buffers Swap: 8193144k total, 355188k used, 7837956k free, 334316k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2268 root 20 0 148m 1572 680 R 100 0.0 111:08.37 upowerd ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: upower 0.9.9-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Sep 28 12:53:23 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/upower/upowerd InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) ProcEnviron: SourcePackage: upower UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-06 (175 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upower/+bug/861642/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
