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i installed mint 11 recently and i found today that the system may get stuck when I do the following:
click Menu, and type "pul" in the search box. (in fact, i just want to search for "pulseaudio", but i can't finish that word).
does anybody else met this before?

What you said seems to be similar to this topic of mintmenu hang up.
Just read this thread.
If hang up CPU might reach 100%.
There was a 'work around' suggested in the thread

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... +menu+hang

I can reproduce as well on Linux Mint 11. That's a strange bug.

I just tried it and after several seconds of what looks like a hang is really a search being done. After the search is completed, a whole bunch of stuff appears. Kinda neat actually. So I'm wondering if what your experiencing is a hardware issue. I've been having problems with a Nvidia video card that has been giving me "choppy" "Slow Response" and stuff like that can slow a computer down a lot.

This is not a hardware issue (unless you consider not having the "fastest of the fast" as a hardware issue). By default the mintMenu also looks for packages to install, and there just happen to be a lot of packages with the letters "pul" in it. So the CPU is shortly locked in a loop going through that list. It does really depend on your hardware. Searching for "pul" only locks up mine for 3 seconds or so.

You can either: right-click Menu, click Preferences, go to Applications tab and remove checkmark on "Search for packages to install". Or follow the link by wayne128 for a small edit you can do to the Python code to fix this (direct link: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 89#p384373)