http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68597/console-kit-daemon-hogging-cpu-and-ram Kill the console-kit-daemon process if it's still running. Remove the file /usr/share/dbus-1/system-service/org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.service (or move it to some place where you could restore it, if necessary). Reboot and you will see that console-kit-daemon no longer automatically starts up.