Realised that this was happening on a few 16.04 LTS machines I manage. It's one thing for me to kill the daemon periodically myself... and completely another to have annoyed users for months without being handled.
For now we settle with crontab -e */5 * * * * killall initctl Killing initctl every 5 minutes looks really scary and it's hard to believe that this is the currently best solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1173915 Title: initctl continuously takes 100% of CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/1173915/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
