I landed here because of a similar issue. Maybe the same as Francois Rigaut describes.
It happens when doing ssh. I have ssh-agent running, which should supply the key to ssh. Some times setting up an ssh connection hangs. And the only solution to make ssh work again is to remove the environement variables that tell ssh to ask an agent for the keys. Now this happened again, and I had a look at top and noticed gnome- keyring-daemon at 100%. Next time I reboot I will have a look on gnome-keyring to see if it goes to 100% just in interaction with ssh/ssh-agent. Is there any mean I can gather information useful to you to locate the problem? $ lsb_release -dr Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) Release: 9.04 $ uname -a Linux garfield.inodes.ch 2.6.28-8-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 25 04:28:54 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux $ apt-cache policy gnome-keyring gnome-keyring: Installed: 2.25.91-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.25.91-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.25.91-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- gnome-keyring-daemon eating 100% CPU at login in Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328167 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs