For me, I have discovered that strigi crashes if it is hung in the way described and start indexing is called. I attached a core file of that crash in the hope it will be useful.
** Attachment added: "core" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9891409/core -- strigidaemon causes 100% CPU and crashes after a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs