Re: [libreoffice-users] odt2txt

On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 16:08:50 +0100
Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> 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.

8.3% of CPU and running hot sounds like
something was keeping hard drives very busy
(top can show you that). It might be a bug,
maybe combined with something else like a
circular softlink or a zero-byte file.

> > > > > Any idea how it might have gotten started
> > > > > and why it would be using so much capacity
> > > > > when it wasn't doing anything?

To find the programm that started odt2txt, you
can use top again and hit the 'V'-key. This
will show you the parent processes (you may
have to enlarge your xterm to see it).

> > I never installed it. Could it have been
> > installed as part of something else?

Most certainly. But rather than part of
something else, it's likely that something else
simply depends on it, so that installing that
something also installs it. I'm on debian, and
here, such a behaviour is very common.

> 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.

I disagree. Malware usually tries to hide
itself, not ringing your alarm bells by spinning
up the hard drives.

You may not have started it consciously, but I
bet you did start it indirectly, i.e., starting
a programm that called odt2txt.

If it happens again, use top with the V-key to
see the tree, and you'll find out.

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