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On 26/05/13 22:20, bad apple wrote:
If find that when things go bad the key combo fails almost every time. SSH is one of the things I install first thingOn 26/05/13 21:51, L Smith wrote:I have had this same problem in Mate and now in XFCE, I start picasa then if I do anything with it the computer stars running slowly then lock up and the only way out is to switch the computer off .. any thoughts? ThanksIs your hardware relatively modern and decent? If Picasa is either running it's initial default media scan or is spawning a lot of intensive threads otherwise thrashing your disk(s) looking for files to add, it could easily bring a weak computer to it's knees, especially a weak one. It shouldn't actually 'kill' your computer though, no matter how ancient it is. Install htop from your distro repos, and run it in a shell window whilst you start Picasa - watch what happens, it should be informative. Also, don't just kill your PC when it becomes unresponsive - if you can't switch to a different TTY and get a terminal (CRTL+ALT+F2) or SSH in from another machine, this is what the magic SysRq key is for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Regards
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