I was trying out the new gnome software center and was installing a few things, then it crashed and I heard the CPU fan cranking up.

Checked atop and journalctl was maxing out one core. I tried restarting it but it didn't help so I figured a restart was in order. 

Immediately after logging in the cpu fan cranked back up but when I checked atop, it was rsyslogd and not journalctl.

I tried restarting abrtd (based on another thread), and rsyslogd but it didn't help. I finally had to stop the service.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Richard