MINT 17.3 MATE - mintmenu 100% cpu, and them change every 0.5 sec,
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MINT 17.3 MATE - mintmenu 100% cpu, and them change every 0.5 sec,
Hi, i'm new user, and just installed mint 17.3 mate desktop 64 bit with codecs.
all the install went smooth, after it i run apt-get update & upgrade, install some packages, and enabled trim function in cron.
after all the updateds have been done, i did restart, that got stuck, had to do hard reset, then i log in, and everything is slow, and all the icons, and the theme setting keeping changing, seems like epilepsy attack.
i've try to do kill for the mintmenu, but m like its restart himself
There are plenty of ways solving a problem like that: ways that need further studying and close examination of your case.
However, there is a shorter way if this will not damage any important data; the which manner I simply suggest to a newbie hoping he/she will learn the art of installing/deinstalling a GNU/Linux operating system. IT IS ASSUMED THAT THERE IS NO RISK OF LOSING IMPORTANT DATA. Assumption from the fact that the system installation just completed. -- The best solution is to re-install the system, and then, avoid updating just for the sake of update. If your system is running well don't update --unless there is grave need for security.
Microsoft users develop the bad habit of updating out of dictates from the seller technicians. In the GNU/Linux it is not the usual case. Here updating is a matter of choice. You make the choice after close examination of the updates. Having made that choice the consequence is your own responsibility. For example: I am running a Salix that has never been been updated for years despite an update option is offered each boot. Why? I don't care. My system runs like a lighting and it does what I want it done. I don't put highly sensitive data into this system --for security purpose I use another system a BSD flavor. Updating under the distros does not happen the way it is in the SP1, SP2, etc. etc. in the micro$oft, because there the seller is blamed if the update goes awry. Here no one is to blame but you the owner.
This thing newbies should be aware in the first place. So, if it can be done go re-install the system if you have no time for tinkering over minor library disorders.
Linux Mint, unlike Ubuntu and most others, has an Update Manager which filters the updates according to possible regressions, or problems.
Main Menu > Administration > Update Manager (or the shield icon on the Panel).
By default, the Update Manager installs Levels 1, 2, and 3 updates, and Levels 4 and 5 are held back. Levels 4 and 5 are held back because they are more risky.
When you upgrade from the command line, you don't have that built-in protection. All Levels are installed. This increases the chances that an update will cause a problem.
install some packages, and enabled trim function in cron.
hmm.
i don't know what cron's trim function is. i hope you do.
and "install some packages" - well, obvious question here: which packages?
also, maybe your system is just overtaxed.
please post your system specs (e.g. with inxi).
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Originally Posted by malekmustaq
The best solution is to re-install the system, and then, avoid updating just for the sake of update. If your system is running well don't update --unless there is grave need for security.
yes, but then you also cannot install any software.
dunno, maybe it would work on slackware, but any debian-based system will break sooner or later, if you install software without updating.
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