Re: [libreoffice-users] odt2txt

On 2025 Apr 4 11:08:50, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 08:28:33 -0400
> Eric Beversluis<ebever@researchintegration.org> wrote:
>
> > Eric Beversluis
> > http://www.ericbeversluis.com/
> > 2x Honorable Mention--Writer's Digest Contest
> > 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.
> I don't use Fedora so I don't have much idea. I think you may have
> better luck enquiring about this problem on a Fedora mailing list or
> forum. Your question doesn't seem to have much to do with libreoffice.
>
> But if there's software running on your machine that you didn't install
> and didn't start then yes, I'd be considering malware as a possible
> cause.
Eric -

Debian shows that odt2txt is a dependency of diffoscope, nemo (file 
manager for Cinnamon) and mc (Midnight Commander). Maybe you have one of 
them installed and it invoked odt2txt?

You haven't mentioned what other processes are (were?) contributing to 
the heavy CPU usage.

- Robert

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