raequin
August 23rd, 2016, 04:24 PM
This morning Ubuntu showed me a pop-up window that stated a security update was available for my hardware. At least that's my recollection of what it said. I installed the updates and now the keyboard illumination is always on and the hard drive is always spinning. The command
top gives me
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1523 rae 20 0 1581952 89264 21628 D 67.2 1.1 4:36.46 mediascanner-se
Since that command (mediascanner-se) starts with an m, I'll also include the fact that I added the following keyboard shortcut command, which didn't work.
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2015a/bin/matlab . &
The accelerator (or keyboard shortcut) for this was "ctrl+alt+M" and MATLAB would show its splash screen but never open and the hard drive would just keep spinning.
I logged out and restarted my computer several times to see if the spinning hard drive problem would go away but it persisted. However, in the time that I've been writing this mediascanner-se no longer shows up with
top and the hard drive has quit spinning. The keyboard illumination is still on.
top gives me
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1523 rae 20 0 1581952 89264 21628 D 67.2 1.1 4:36.46 mediascanner-se
Since that command (mediascanner-se) starts with an m, I'll also include the fact that I added the following keyboard shortcut command, which didn't work.
/usr/local/MATLAB/R2015a/bin/matlab . &
The accelerator (or keyboard shortcut) for this was "ctrl+alt+M" and MATLAB would show its splash screen but never open and the hard drive would just keep spinning.
I logged out and restarted my computer several times to see if the spinning hard drive problem would go away but it persisted. However, in the time that I've been writing this mediascanner-se no longer shows up with
top and the hard drive has quit spinning. The keyboard illumination is still on.