Questions tagged [freeze]
when the computer or an application is not responding
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100% memory consumption when running Jetbrains IDE for 5 min
Fresh install of Arch Linux causes major memory leaks upon opening JAVA based applications, or Jet Brains applications to be exact.
Memory starts off fine but within 5 minutes its up over 90%, opening ...
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Linux crashes after resume from suspend
My Linux crashes after it wakes up from sleep mode,
namely, it stops responding to any commands,
at the moment I have Manjaro Linux, but there was a similar problem on Ubuntu.
My laptop: Huawei Mate ...
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Periodic 10 second pauses/freezes every 15 seconds when copying files on all(!) LUKS encrypted ext4 hard drives (NVMe not affected)
I copied a 10TB file from a LVM on LUKS encrypted ext4 drive to another identically set up drive and noticed that the copy process goes for 15 seconds at full speed (~220MB/s), then pauses for 10 ...
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Xubunu keeps freezing
I have cloned a classroom of Xubuntu 22.04 computers in my lab using clonezilla, and they keep randomly freezing. I have all of the updates. Symptoms are the second screen usually flashes to black, ...
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Firefox: Youtube Freezes because of failure to query drm device
The problem:
Youtube keeps freezing on firefox, although it's working fine otherwise. Running youtube shorts will always freeze youtube where as running normal videos freeze it some time and don't ...
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Linux Kernel (first) boot hangs/stalls - never prompts for login
I have built a custom kernel using the mainline source, latest version and this config.
I've created an image of Bullseye as suggester here
And then I ran it in QEMU (setting the relative environment ...
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Random Freezes on pop!_os based on ubuntu 22.04
I've experiencing random freezes on Pop!_os distro (based on Ubuntu 22.04), where the whole system freeze and won't do any thing so I have to force restart.
The frequency of freezes is really random. ...
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Kubuntu 23.04 - screen freezes randomly when connected to external monitor (extand display)
The weird thing is, that connecting to 2 external extended display monitors (viewing with 3 monitors including the laptop's one), and the problem does not happen.
Only with 1 monitor attached.
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What hardware problem does a video signal shift on hard lock imply?
I'm running a pfsense router on a PC architecture desktop system (AMD FX-8120 CPU with 16GB RAM). It's running version pfsense version 2.7.0, which is based on FreeBSD v14.
Every day or two the router ...
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Kubuntu crashes randomly (Kali too)
I have installed Kubuntu and then uninstalled it because I noticed that from time to time, it freezes and I have to reboot every time.
I thought maybe there was a problem with my distribution
so I ...
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rsync freezes whole system
i am trying to backup a few TB to a second hdd. I am copying from a NTFS partition to an ext4 partition. Most of my files are small pictures. I use the command rsync -av. However after some random ...
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Games totaly freeze my Linux Mint
This is my first Linux system, so far I love it. Every singleplayer game is fine (installed through steam or heroic), and even Project Zomboid multiplayer hosted on my computer works just fine.Playing ...
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VirtualBox 7.0 guest freezes whenever the guest is switched into full-screen mode, fix?
On my Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon running an nvidia-driver-530...
VirtualBox 7.0 guest freezes whenever the guest is switched into full-screen mode. The exact version follows:
$ apt-cache policy ...
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Linux freezes after a cold start: "NVRM: GPU has fallen off the bus", Xid 79
Here my configuration:
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core
Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master
DDR5 Corsair Vengeance 5200 MHz 16 GB
PNY Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080
I have a dual boot with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 23.04.
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Persistent system freezing issue on Debian, Mint, and Ubuntu
I know the problem seems to be quite abstract, but let me explain what's going on.
First of all, keep in mind that my notebook is a Dell 3567, seventh generation i5, 16 GB of RAM, and a 256 GB SSD. ...
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Asus ROG Zephyrus Pop-OS freezing no wifi
I recently acquired an Asus ROG Zephyrus G15, with Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card, and I have been trying to get it fully functional with Linux. So far I have tried Mint, Fedora and Pop-OS. Pop-OS has ...
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Live USB hanging
Kali linux 2023 snapshot (usb persistent built ON USB DIRECTLY in qemu)
ASUS VIVOBOOK (16 GB RAM 19MB FRONT SIDE BUS)
Trying to setup a kali live usb to run fluxion (so i have to use kali more or less....
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Programs using CUDA freeze after one of them fails, can't be killed
I'm trying to debug a certain program of mine which uses CUDA (specifically, CUDA graphs). This program (sometimes) triggers an error, then dies - relatively gracefully. However, after it has failed, ...
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Comuter freezing on full RAM/possible cache problem
After installing Arch Linux on my Notebook I experience a weird problem: Opening firefox or any other browser (or any application with high RAM usage) RAM (12 GB) is filling up pretty quickly, even ...
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KDE Neon randomly freezes, can't access Virtual Terminal, have to restart system
I am experiencing an issue that makes my screen go black for one second, then it goes back normal, i see everything i was doing on the screen, I can move my mouse cursor, I steill hear audio playing ...
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New USB stick freezes processes that come in contact with it (dd, fdisk, gparted, etc)
I bought a new USB stick to upgrade my os (debian) on my laptop. I used gnome-multi-writer to write the .iso file into the device. The writing process never showed a message of success or error so I ...
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How to debug freezes?
My computer freezes randomly, though it's usually connected to doing something that requires me to switch between windows often, like having to google a lot when writing code.
The freezing begun when ...
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Running Openbox and MATE in parallel with KDE causes freezing on Debian
I am running Parrot OS (Debian) with KDE as the default desktop environment and SDDM as the display manager. I want to run Openbox and MATE desktop environments parallel to KDE on different virtual ...
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linux mint periodically freezing after closing lid
After closing the lid of my laptop I suffer a periodic freezing system (~0.5 seconds). The symptoms are:
mouse pointer stops
keyboard input stops (=delayed)
video freezes
ms teams meetings stuck
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Kubuntu freezing for no apparent reason - xdg-desktop-portal-kde[2594]
Kubuntu is crashing on seemingly random occasions about once a week.
After a crash
journalctl -b -1 -e
shows the following events:
xdg-desktop-portal-kde[2594]: xdp-kde-background: GetAppState called:...
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Ubuntu freezes after hardware reinstall
I've come across a strange enough problem in the past days that I need to write my question down here.
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu on one NVME and Windows on the other. The Bootmanager is ...
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Why does this udev rule cause cryptsetup to freeze?
I have this rule which runs a script to send me an email whenever a drive drops out of the system:
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="remove", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="disk",\
RUN=&...
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What should be the reason for debian getting stuck at Assertion '*_head == _item'?
Whenever I'm trying to boot the Debian 11 is getting stuck at the following
Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)!
systemd[1]: Set hostname to <arm>.
systemd[1]: Failed to open netlink: ...
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How to fix random Fedora 37 freezes?
I am running dual boot with Windows 11 and Fedora 37 GNOME 43, on kernel version 6.0.7-301.fc37.x86_64
Before I installed fedora, I was using Ubuntu 20 and I never had any freezing problems at all. ...
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Debian 11 upgrade grub freezes
In the course of an update of my NAS OS some errors occurred. The NAS is running OpenMediaVault with Debian as the base operating system. During the update, Debian 10 (Buster) was upgraded to Debian ...
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Surface Pro 9 sticks at shutdown, how to trace the problem?
I tried installing three distros on SP9: Ubuntu 22.04.1, Ubuntu 22.10, KaliLinux 2022.3, there is problem with all these distros that it sticks at shutdown.
After typing shutdown now in terminal, the ...
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Linux freezes shut when cursor touches bottom of the screen
Linux freezes shut when cursor touches bottom of the screen, stops responding to anything, happens in LXQT, Openbox and XFCE, tried different distros. Is there any fix to this problem? Specs are: ...
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How to fix/debug Kali-Linux freeze after starting Virtualbox VM on USB network adapter (Bridged)
Description of steps to reproduce bug:
Step 1 - Connect USB network adapter
Step 2 - Network settings of VM to Bridged Adapter and select the wlan from the USB network adapter
Step 3 - Start VM
Step ...
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Dealing with a network share that is often unavailable?
Using /etc/fstab, I have mounted two network shares on my Raspbery Pi OS:
NAS - this is my Synology NAS,
PCH - this is a SSD inside my Popcorn Hour networked media player.
My intention is that the ...
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Random freezes, pointer moves, no response to clicks
Why is my laptop freezing?
Screen randomly freezes, I can move pointer but no response to clicking. Cannot alt-tab through windows.
This happens in firefox and chromium. Ran memtester, all ok. Set FF ...
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Linux completely frozen
My linux system just froze and I can't even switch to tty.
I can't force reboot it because it is moving a partiton (a HDD with no system files) with really important data which I can't afford to lose.
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Enable ATI GPU work on debian 11
I'm on an old laptop with AMD ATI Radeon 6490 M. With default kernel parameters any Linux freezes on booting, which I fixed by disabling the discrete AMD gpu completely:
radeon.modeset=0 amdgpu.runpm=...
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PC freezes completely with Linux after a few minutes (dual boot), windows works normally
OS: Fedora-windows 10 (first time) ; Ubuntu-windows 10 (second time)
Hardware: GTX 760 2GB ; i5 4690 ; 8GB ram ; Gigabyte B85M-D3PH(motherboard)
Explanation: I am a beginner to Linux, and decided to ...
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Screen and cursor freeze temporarily
I have a problem with cursor lagging.
I tried reinstalling Linux and even changing distribution but I have still the same problem.
I have it installed on a USB stick and this bug is only on kernel 5....
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Debian, OpenSUSE freeze dead on boot with an ATI GPU
I'm trying to install Debian or OpenSUSE on a 2012 laptop (to be honest, it's not bad). I succeeded installing both, but both of them freeze dead a couple of seconds after booting.
Because I installed ...
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Gigabyte G5 browser freeze on Ctrl+s
I have a problem with my Ubuntu 22. When I open Firefox or Chrome and press Ctrl+s to save a page, the window for saving keeps opening, thus filling up my RAM completely and making my laptop freeze. I ...
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Touchpad freezing randomly (with different OS)
I recently acquired a new laptop on which i initially installed a dual-boot with Windows 11 and Fedora.
Windows 11 is working perfectly, no input/mouse problems and every software is running fine.
But ...
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xorg-x11-drv-intel causes system failure
I am using Fedora 36 with Gnome 42. Sometimes when I start my laptop, the application Problem Reports reports "Oops, there seems to be a problem in a component...". When I open it, the xorg-...
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Random Linux freeze (Slackware, mageia, and others)
The last weeks I have been trying to reinstall a Linux distro in my laptop Asus X553S these are the specs:
8 GB Ram
Pentium Processor N3700 4 cores, 1.6 GHz
Hard drive 20 GB for root partition, 100 ...
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Random freezes for chromium and electron-based apps
I am using Arch Linux and the Cinnamon desktop environment. In the last few weeks I have been getting apparently random, brief freezes (a few seconds, 5-10 or so) in Chromium, Brave, Franz and Slack. ...
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Why is my system using swap when RAM fills up with cache?
I'm running openSUSE TW, 32 GiB RAM, 64 GiB swap (SSD).
Swap usage is zero up until the point when RAM gets fully filled up with cache.
I'm using htop to monitor it. Yellow/orange = cache
My system ...
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Linux Mint 20.3 laptop freezes randomly because of nouveau driver
When my system freezes randomly it starts to slow down heavily and in the end it does not react anymore. I can provoke it pretty consistently, if I start Firefox alone (with many tabs open) and start ...
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Ubuntu freeze and restarts after update from 20.04 to 22.04
I was upgrading Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 via Terminator terminal, and after some time I wanted to split terminal to do some work while upgrade is working on the other part of terminal. When I split ...
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Linux Manjaro freezing issues and random reboots
I have installed Manjaro Linux on my computer, coming from windows 10, where all hardware worked fine. I previously tried Manjaro out but ran into the same issue here. My OS would freeze or come to a ...
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Freezes and browser crashes when using Linux
With any Distro Installed to my PC, I get the following ACPI errors (ACPI Error: Aborting Method) while booting up:
Also while using my pc it randomly freezes and the only way is to power it off ...
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