Odt2txt issue using 8.3% of CPU capacity

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I came back to my computer (Fedora 40 on Dell XPS 9315) which should have been suspended. Instead it was running hot. I looked at System Monitor and a number 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 or even installed it, to my knowledge.

Any idea how it might have gotten started and why it would be using so much capacity when it wasn’t doing anything? Why the computer wouldn’t have gone to sleep? And how it got on my computer in the first place?

Also running were FF (using a lot of RAM, but significantly less processor than odt2txt), LO Writer and LO Calc. Neither of the latter 2 using much processor capacity. Earlier I had run a Win10 guest in VirtualBox, but both the guest and VB itself were long shut down.

The LO list tells me this is not an LO issue despite the ‘odt’ in the utility’s name.

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You can use the command ps -afxww to get a list of all the proceess on the system. If will show you who the parent process is to odt2txt and hopefully explain why it is running.

Here is a part of the output on my system

    948 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
  15899 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd-session: barry [priv]
  15902 ?        S      0:00      \_ sshd-session: barry@pts/1
  15903 pts/1    Ss     0:00          \_ -bash
  15947 pts/1    R+     0:00              \_ ps -afxww

You can see that ps was started by bash and bash from sshd-session etc.