[Nottingham] /usr/lib/at-spi-registryd what?! Network haemorrhage...

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Mon Apr 27 22:43:23 UTC 2009


Martin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Just blundered across a strange one...
> 
> Sometime overnight after many months of uptime, at-spi-registryd 
> apparently spontaneously started spraying my local network with about 3k 
> bit/s of continuous data.

Well, regardless of when or how it was started, one example that does 
start it is starting up firefox remotely (all of just 1m across the 
room) over a ssh connection.

Soon killed again!

Just very curious as to what might have changed to start tripping it...

Cheers,
Martin

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