Re: [libreoffice-users] odt2txt

Eric Beversluis
www.ericbeversluis.com
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On 4/4/25 7:33 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:27:58 -0400
> Eric Beversluis <ebever@researchintegration.org> wrote:
>
> > I returned to my computer (running Fedora 40). It should have been
> > suspended; instead it was running, and running hot. I looked at
> > System Monitor and a lot of my CPU cores were bumping up at 100%. At
> > the top of the processes list was odt2txt using 8.3% of CPU.
> >
> > When I search online, it tells me odt2txt is a simple, command-line
> > utility to extract text from odt documents.
> >
> > I never started the utility.
> >
> > Any idea how it might have gotten started and why it would be using
> > so much capacity when it wasn't doing anything?
> I wouldn't think odt2txt would be installed by default, let alone
> started by default. A program using 8.3% wouldn't cause the CPU usage
> to be 100%.
>
> In other words, there's a lot you haven't told us that might be
> relevant. How did odt2txt come to be on your computer? What other
> processes are using the other 91.7% of the CPU?
>
> Maybe it's some malware? Maybe you forgot you started it?
I never installed it. Could it have been installed as part of something 
else? The Fedora Software utility does not show it as installed. But 
sudo rpm -ql odt2txt shows it installed. (See below.)

8.3% for odt2txt is high in any case, isn't it? And it could send some 
of the cores way up, couldn't it?

Other things running would include FF, LO Writer, and LO Calc. Not much 
else. Earlier VirtualBox 7.1.6 had run a Win10 guest, but that was shut 
down.

Malware?

eric@fedora:~$ sudo rpm -ql odt2txt
[sudo] password for eric:
/usr/bin/odt2txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/d98cefbd994433530b80ac5f7b09a16ad31e08
/usr/share/doc/odt2txt
/usr/share/doc/odt2txt/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/odt2txt
/usr/share/licenses/odt2txt/GPL-2
/usr/share/man/man1/odt2txt.1.gz

Thanks.






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