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Black box on top

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Running Mint-MATE 18.3. Everything was running fine until this morning. I was running Ubuntu-Mate,18.04, from usb stick, just to check it out. I've been with Mint about 8 years now, and must say I prefer "my Mint-MATE". Anyhow, I shut it down, removed the usb stick, and rebooted to my regular Mint on my HDD. There is now a black box, 3" long by 2" high, that stays in upper left corner of screen, and is persistent, remaining uppermost whatever is on screen. However when I came to this url, box now has turned green. I've got this problem regardless of the browser in use-tried Firefox, and also Vivaldi, and Chrome. It will not move using mouse, nor anything else. Please see attachment. I've tried rebooting a few times, including using the advanced items, all to no avail.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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kukamuumuka

Re: Black box on top

Post by kukamuumuka »

Try via Terminal

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killall caja
PS. Do you have conky installed?
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Re: Black box on top

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Thanks for the reply. No, conky not installed. killall caja did not work. Any other suggestions, please. I plan on doing a clean install as soon as Mint-MATE,v19 comes out, but this is driving me nuts.
kukamuumuka

Re: Black box on top

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tosim wrote: Wed May 02, 2018 9:57 am Thanks for the reply. No, conky not installed. killall caja did not work. Any other suggestions, please. I plan on doing a clean install as soon as Mint-MATE,v19 comes out, but this is driving me nuts.
Find all running prosesses, and kill them one by one for finding the problem.

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ps aux
PS. Obviously it is some user-process.
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Re: Black box on top

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Again, thanks for reply.
Here is what I think may be the cause (from terminal): root 1 0.0 0.1 185580 6076 ? Ss 05:57 0:01 /sbin/init spla
This is what I got: owner@HP-Compaq-DualBoot ~ $ kill /sbin/init spla
bash: kill: /sbin/init: arguments must be process or job IDs
bash: kill: spla: arguments must be process or job IDs

Obviously, I'm doing something wrong. Sorry to keep bothering you, but I need a bit more guidance, please.Thanks.
kukamuumuka

Re: Black box on top

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tosim wrote: Thu May 03, 2018 10:24 am Here is what I think may be the cause (from terminal): root 1 0.0 0.1 185580 6076 ? Ss 05:57 0:01 /sbin/init spla
splash ?

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ps aux | grep spla
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