Process pcscd is running amok (Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller)

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Mon Feb 19 18:04:20 UTC 2007


Miles Lane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my updated rawhide installation, pcscd constantly consumes around
> 35% of the cpu cycles.  I have taken to shutting of the service.  Any
> idea how I can troubleshoot this?  Is this a bug, or just an issue
> with my configuration?
pcscd is a smart card daemon.  If you don't use smart cards for 
authentication, you can just turn it off with /sbin/chkconfig pcscd off

It sounds like a bug, can you file it?  Running strace -s512 -f -p 
$(/sbin/pidof pcscd) might give some indication what it's doing (or 
getting a backtrace from gdb)

--Ray




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