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Questions tagged [freeze]

when the computer or an application is not responding

Use this tag when something is locked up, frozen, hung, not responding, not reacting to user input. Always use it in combination with one or more tags describing what has locked up (the operating system? an application?).

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System often freezes without warning

The system often just freezes up without any warning, it doesn't gradually start getting slower or something like that, and every time I look the avarage system load is below 20% (usually not even 10%). When looking at dmesg, there's one thing that…
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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 I installed Linux Mint Ulyana. What I had before…
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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 complete crawl. Sometimes it can recover until…
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Random freeze on debian 9 & xUbuntu 16.04 LTS

I'm trying to help a friend of mine that is having some big issues installing a working Linux on it's laptop (Windows works without any problem). We tried to install debian 9 (and also xUbuntu 16.04 LTS), the first time the installer froze, and the…
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Keep system accessible in case of freeze

We run a small server (Ubuntu 14.04) solely for computing purposes. From time to time, a user will manage to consume enough memory to freeze the system. Last time, the culprit was a process that spawned 30 memory eating sub-processes. The result is…
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Where is Alt+SysRq+r+e+u+i+b in /var/log/syslog?

My computer hangs after an hour of continuous use. I have to press Alt+SysRq+r+e+u+i+b to restart the computer. Where in the syslog can I identify when I restarted the computer so I can try to understand why my computer hangs?
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Why does my Fedora/Ubuntu frequently hang after suspending?

Sometimes, when I let my pc goes to hybernation due to a timeout, it freezes upon login. All apps close, nothing can be opened, my files are not listed and some app icons are not showing. I always have to force a shutdown. Here is some more…
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