On Sun September 25 2005 13:16, John R. Sowden wrote: > I just attempted to install a wine based application including crossover > office (application is Gupta Team Developer. Bi=ought it at Linuxworld San > Francisco (any input re Gupta would be appreciated). My machine came to a > grinding halt. I had to reboot while waiting several minutes for init to > send term signals to processes. Before rebooting, I had this mime error > and after rebooting also: > Little message boxes with the following titles: > sorry amoroK Kate KDE panel Kdesktop and I thing Open Office > Message in box is: could not find mime type application/octlet-stream > > ideas? > Oh yes, and my visual foxpro (wine) no longer works More info. After about 10 minutes the mache slows to a crawl and the disk is thrashing. I the kde equiv of top and found knotify was hoarding about 67% of cpu time, I only found one small reference to it in the kde help re: a text to voice program, so I killed it. The disk is no longer thrashing and the computer has not slowed down. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.americansentry.net ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.