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Mazza558
May 6th, 2008, 07:11 PM
It's gone very wierd. It's almost as I've been hacked. I'm using Gutsy and I haven't touched anything recently. Here's my symptoms:

- Emerald says it's using 4GB of RAM. I have 1 GB.

- I can't right-click properly. The right click menu flashes and then disappears.

-I can't add anything to the panel - it tells me "OAFIID:(name of applet) has encounted a problem"

- Random pauses where I can't click anything.

This has never happened before.
Tatty
May 6th, 2008, 08:17 PM
Have you tried checking for hardware problems?

memtest/fsck/badblocks etc?
Mazza558
May 6th, 2008, 08:46 PM
Have you tried checking for hardware problems?

memtest/fsck/badblocks etc?

I'll have a look.
madjr
May 6th, 2008, 09:05 PM
oh oh a virus :o
prshah
May 6th, 2008, 09:07 PM
-I can't add anything to the panel - it tells me "OAFIID:(name of applet) has encounted a problem"


Try reinstalling the applets: (Do this from a virtual tty [Ctrl+Alt+F1])



sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
sudo aptitude reinstall gnome-applets
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start


May also help to clear out your "/tmp", before restarting gdm.


Can't help with the rest; regrets.