<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000000"> Thank you all for your help. <pre wrap="">rsvg-convert is definitely the problem every time. Killing the process provides a temporary solution.I am going to digest your replies bit by bit and work through the issues. </pre> I just hit another snag as I just got ADSL2 the other day and cannot get apt working (But that will be in another email question). <blockquote> <pre wrap="">ps -ejHf It's librsvg2-bin and not librsvg2. :) librsvg2 provides shared library where as librsvg2-bin provides rsvg-convert. If it (rsvg-convert) always does that (suck up lot of memory and freeze your > system) and you do not use that package try removing it- > > raphael@f9:[~] sudo apt-get remove librsvg2-bin; > <type root password> > > [librsvg2-bin includes rsvg-convert tool] > > If you do use that package however, consider filing a bug report at > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net">https://bugs.launchpad.net</a> on librsvg2-bin. Maybe it's leaking memory it > shouldn't. #_# Thanks will check these out. The only I can think of if you aren't explicitly running it, is some of thumbnail creation process is iterating over a lot of icons or drawings in SVG format that you may have created in Xara. If somehow you created a "bad" SVG (maybe Xara crashed while saving) that makes rsvg-convert believe that it is really huge it might be causing it to attempt to allocate a huge amount of memory simply for the purpose of rendering a thumbnail. (Just a guess of course ;-) ) Will check this out. Not sure how, I suppose I try to open every file of this type. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">LIBDVDCSS (Tried the following. Didn't work. I think it fell over on the public key.) (Not important at the moment) (Note: The restriction is that Ubuntu will not endorse it because of legal implications. I believe these legal implications do not apply to Australia). </pre> <blockquote> <pre wrap=""> libdvdcss should be available straight off from one of multimedia repository, not provided by main repository probably due to some restrictions. Google(tm)'d first entry for 'libdvdcss ubuntu' shows - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/04/libdvdcss2-and-w32codecs-for-ubuntu/">http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/12/04/libdvdcss2-and-w32codecs-for-ubuntu/</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>