As my laptop (Dell precision 16Gb, ubuntu 18.4) had been slower than usual, I had a look at top.
Here I have a process, called frontend pegging 50% of the CPU.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 7189 root 20 0 111508 22584 7440 S 44.9 0.1 0:12.23 frontendI have no clue of what it can be, and it is not a process started by my user as ps -uwhoami| grep frontend returned nothing. It is also there after restarting and kill 7189 asks me for superuser permission, reason why I do not think that a simple sudo kill would solve the issue. Though I have not tried yet.
Anyone has any help, suggestion, idea about what to do? Anyone heard about a virus that can cause that?
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please, check this answer given in a similar situation, the system might be waiting for a secure boot:
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