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hi everyone3,

this seems a bit weird. my load applet icon is always maxed out white bars, or even red. it goes back and forth... so i did 'top' and that one process up top is almost always about 75-80 percent.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29629961@N03/4775801455/

i noticed this today... help plz :( :)

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Kill hildon-input-method or reboot. Does it start behaving?

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err.. Linux noob here. how exactly did u pull up the info on Terminal?

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write the bolded text to terminal and press enter

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I did also notice this the last couple of weeks (after upgrade to PR 1.2). I first thought it's been because my son recorded a video which brought up a status message like "Memory full". But even after deleting all videos and pictures load maxes out a lot.

I did get some improvement though by using the power saving hack (vdd_1, vdd_2)

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How do I kill a process?

I've rebooted a few times and it doesnt change anything. In fact its still doing it now. :( I dont have any windows open or anything going on (to the best of my knowledge) and its sitting at 90-100% ;(

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In Xterm (the terminal) type in kill (or killall) hildon-input-method.

I recommend installing HTOP (from the extras repo). After using that app it will show you all running processes and you can kill from there.

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Thank you.

I typed 'kill hildon-input-method' and hit enter.
I got this back: "sh: bad pid 'hildon-input-method'

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The kill command expects you to specific processes for termination by Process ID Number (PID). This is the left most column of the top command output. In your posted screenshot, that would be 1211.

Beware that some processes don't die easily and if the kill command doesn't work (the process still shows as running in your "top" display), then try using the "-9" argument, which tells the system to kill with extreme prejudice. Like so:

kill -9 <PID number>

Alternately, you can use the pkill (process kill) command to kill processes by their name, such as:

pkill hildon-input-method

Note that none of this tells us WHY your hildon-input-method has run amok...

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WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! pkill hildon-input-method didnt do anything. kill (PID number) didnt do anything. kill -9 (PID number) worked! xterm crashed and a yellow message said 'internal error, xterm app closing' you know... and now its all better :)

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damnit! its back again less than a minute later... what the heck... kill -9 killed it again and back less than a minute late once more...

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It's normal for the hildon-input-method to come back as it's a system daemon (a process meant to run in the background and provide services), not a normal process.

However, if it's coming back and still at like 90% of your CPU, then there is something fundamentally wrong with your input-method daemon.

A re-flash would probably be the easiest way to fix this for good in that case, so make a backup, flash, and then restore backup.

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ahhhh, ok. thank you for the explanation. have you heard of anything like this before? did I install a skethcy app? or is this a cancer of software? ill need to borrow my friends laptop to flash, anything else I can try in the meantime?

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does anyone else have any ideas or input?

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No real answers, but you might check this bug report. It may give you some clues. Then check the comments from about #14 or so.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8657

Hope this helps.
Take care.

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Thank you, this sounds exactly like my situation! Ill try to follow the steps in comments to fix it. We'll see how that goes.

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Just a heads up, I flashed my whatever, and my emmc, and I still have this problem... What the heck, does that mean that it HAS to be from an app ive installed?

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8657

The fix provided in this bug page, what exactly does it do? Are there unforseen consequences in my future usage if im 'changing' or 'moving' directories? <- Thats just what im asuming is happening in the fix...

Wouldnt it be better to address what is disturing the hildon-input-method, for example hunting down what app triggers it?