Questions tagged [crash]
Questions related to crashes of system or applications.
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Ubuntu 15.10 randomly crashing back to login screen
fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 here.
Everything works fine, but I'm getting random crashes back to the login screen.
I pasted my syslog here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12989589/
Edit: Confirmed bug on ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 logs out unexpectedly or crashes
This problem is going on for several months.
When you try to run a GUI program it suddenly exits the session gets back to the login screen where I get this notification (bubble for several seconds) ...
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skypeforlinux crashes the keyboard
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.0.4 and after that skypeforlinux in several ways. I can use Skype to type messages, everything its OK, but when I make a call it crashes the keyboard. After that, I can'...
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Google Chrome frequently and randomly crashing?
Has anyone else had trouble with Chrome crashing randomly and frequently? Just now I was looking at the screen reading something and it just crashed. It didn't freeze or anything, just disappeared. I ...
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Nautilus crashes when trying to open another window by right-clicking the Nautilus icon on the dock and then selecting "Documents" (Ubuntu 21.04)
When I right-click the Nautilus icon on my dock while at least one Nautilus window is already open, I can select "Documents" in the appearing menu. This should open another Nautilus window ...
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Ubuntu crash when screen sharing
I have a problem with my laptop on which I run Ubuntu. Anytime I try to share a screen, either a window or the entire screen the os crashes after a while. It started on Ubuntu 22.04 and now I upgraded ...
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Network Manager crash out of nowhere Ubuntu 20.04
Basically, once in a while, the Network Manager dies out of nowhere.
The computer still seems connected to the wifi but it says there is no connection to the internet;
When I try to open the wifi ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error "/usr/lib/tracker"
/usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract seems to be the culprit.
How can I fix this problem?
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aMule crash with invalid_socket
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 (fresh install), and I am now unable to start aMule. It closes after that error message :
../src/unix/sockunix.cpp(143): assert "m_fd != INVALID_SOCKET" failed in ...
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What controls apport's behavior for saving core dumps?
apport is configured (default) to handle my system's core dumps (in /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern: |/usr/share/apport/apport %p %s %c %P). It's behavior is mysterious to me:
Sometimes it saves core ...
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Zoom with Wayland - Fails on starting a session
I am using Ubuntu 21.10 and have been having difficulties getting a Zoom session going. It was crashing each time I started a session, I found it necessary to restart Zoom usually 3, 4 or 5 times ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 freezes twice a week
My ubuntu server (20.04 headless) freezes almost twice a week.
The first time, the last message in journalctl was
systemd: Finished Message of the Day.
and the second time, one from jellyfin. The ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 constantly crashing
My laptop is an Acer Predator Helios 300, Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ, 16GiB RAM, NVIDIA GTX1060 6GB (nvidia-driver-410) running Ubuntu 18.10.
Ubuntu is very frequently crashing (something between every ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 GNOME Shell is keep crashing
I installed ubuntu 18.04 today in my laptop lenovo yoga 500. and when i try to change font in gonome tweak tool gnome shell is crashed and logged me out immediately. same problem with visual studio ...
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web browsers constantly crash in 16.04
Most recently the default web browser (Firefox) crashes. --safe-mode does not help. Removed, etc. reinstalled, still crashes. Installed chrome - crashes. Completely reinstalled (reformat, etc) 16.04.2 ...
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Laptop screen goes black, but laptop still running
I have an old Asus laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Sometimes the laptop's screen goes black, but the laptop keeps running. It happens when loading a youtube video or websites like GDrive, but not all ...
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Missing files in /home directory after boot crash during software update
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04; during a routine software update the PC crash for some reason. Here is the situation now:
Looping during desktop log-in: each time I try to log-in via the desktop it loops ...
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14.04 System hangs and IO errors
To my surprise, after todays fresh Ubuntu 14.04 install (fully updated as of today) I'm getting various problems like random hangs and I/O errors when copying/moving files (moving backup from HDD to ...
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Ubuntu crashing all the time
I just started using Ubuntu about a month ago. It has worked smoothly until now. Now my PC is crashing all the time. I went in the folder /var/crash to see if there is anything unusual. This was in ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3: nginx crashes with segfault
I have an Ubuntu box (20.04.3) on which nginx stopped already twice with a segfault:
Nov 16 00:01:23 documents-oo kernel: [2726316.050697] nginx[2579242]: segfault at 41 ip 00007fbf59548593 sp ...
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Settings Crash when trying to add Google Account
On Ubuntu 20.04Lts i can't add a Google Account in the settings. It always freezes when trying to log in after I type in my password and give Ubuntu access to my google account.
I hope someone can ...
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New Yoga X1 Gen 5 random freeze, Ubuntu 20.04
I have a new Lenovo X1 Yoga, Gen5. It is a present for my wife, so I configured it a few weeks ago, then started using it on December 24th. Since then it has locked up three times. It doesn't seem ...
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emacs crashing in 20.10
I just upgraded from 20.04 to 20.10 and now emacs is crashing frequently. This never happened for me in any earlier version of Ubuntu. I started from the shell and at the time of the crash, I see:
X ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 intermittent system freezes
I have periodic freezes on my linux desktop for quite a long time, starting from when I was on Debian 10. When I use Windows, I don't have any of these. During the freezes, the system just doesn't ...
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Crashing: Ubuntu 20.04, Aorus x570 Elite, and Ryzen 5 3600
Symptom:
The system freezes anywhere from two minutes to an hour after boot, then spontaneously reboots about ten seconds later. It doesn't matter if the system is sitting at the login screen, idle at ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 crashes after resisizing the cursor
I have tried to change the cursor size on my Focal Fossa. Upon selecting larger cursor size in the Universal Access settings, my Ubuntu froze completely. I rebooted the device. Log-in seemed to ...
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Dual-booted 2016 MacBook Pro suddenly shows seemingly random color for 30 seconds before crashing
I recently installed Ubuntu on my Late 2016 15in MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. I tried running the installer a few times, but it would have this strange issue where the screen would turn a random color, ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Server Silently Becomes Unresponsive
I have a small headless server, running Ubuntu 18.04. After some time (e.g. a day or two) the server becomes unresponsive; no SSH access, no ping response, no disk activity when the power button is ...
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How to fix Gnome Desktop Environment crashing since updating to 19.10
Since updating to 19.10 I've been having a really bad user experience in the UI. I'm not sure if it's gnome or X but the main problem is that every now and then (~ once every 2 days) the DE will just ...
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Impossible to install/run Ubuntu 18.04/18.10
Sorry for my bad English:
I'm totally new at Ubuntu, and i'm trying to install it in dual boot with W10 in my laptop (hp omen 15, i7 7700hq, 12gbram, gtx1050, hdd 1tb, ssd crucial 275gb m.2, the usb I'...
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Integrated Intel graphics seem to cause random crashes
After plenty of digging around the forms and some trial and error, it seems that when I allow the kernel drivers for my integrated video card to load(the motherboard is a MSI Z170-A Pro with Intel ...
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How to fix Ubuntu 18.04LTS freezes?
I've installed latest Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS about a week ago.
All the soft was installed via system menu or Jetbrains repo.
In 2 days appeared freezes - only mouse moves, irresponsive to keyboard, timer ...
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Collecting Java Heap Dump via apport
We have a Java application server which does real-time audio/video processing and for that purpose, it consumes a lot of memory (25+GB of RAM). Due to some, yet unknown, mistake in our JNI, every now ...
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Desktop session crashes when resuming from standby
I'm having this issue since Ubuntu 17.10, now I'm using 18.04.
When I suspend my laptop and leave it sleeping for a few hours, then when I try to resume it the desktop session crashes and the X ...
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kdump doesn't log crash
I have an Ubuntu Desktop system that is frequently crashing (once every 2-3 days maybe?). It was originally running 17.10 (and was crashing on this system) and when 18.04 came out I thought that ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 freezes when I use libreoffice writer
When I use libreoffice writer, every now and then my entire system freezes. Usually when selecting more than a few words of text, but it does not happen every time I select a paragraph (have not been ...
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Firefox broken Ubuntu MATE
My firefox refuses to launch even after a clean re-install. This happens with the taskbar shortcut as well as when launching through terminal sensible-browser.
It just gives me this Mozilla Crash ...
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Xubuntu crashes on opening firefox and/or chrome
This is a fresh installation of Xubuntu 16.04.
I installed only Chromium from the software center.
Issue is that as soon as I open either chromium or firefox, the OS freezes with the mouse and ...
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System freezing... No way of capturing the reason why?
I have a PC that has a number of peripherals connected to it that is intermittently experiencing a freeze of the OS. There are 6+ USB devices and four monitors connected to the PC.
Details of system:...
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Audacity 2.05 Crashes Ubuntu 14.04
Hi Audacity is crashing after a few seconds; the cursor slows down noticeably and it then makes a buzzing noise, I hit stop, screen greys out and I have to force quit. The Audacity log reads;
19:53:...
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google chrome on chromium freeze while play video full screen on facebook
while i play a video on my Ubuntu 15.10 in chrome or chromium in full screen mode at moment i use ctrl+tab or volume up or exit from full screen will freeze and i can do any thing even logout or ...
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VirtualBox installs, reboots then freezes
I have tried installing 15.04 and 14.04.03 LTS on multiple computers and revisions of VirtualBox, both of which have given the same error.
When I try to install Ubuntu in VirtualBox, it installs ...
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Ubuntu is randomly crashing into a static screen
This has happened a few times over the past few days, however, I have no idea what to troubleshoot or how to fix it.
Ubuntu will randomly crash into a 'static' screen, I took a picture on my phone, ...
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Ubuntu crashed for no apparent reason, unsure of how to get it back
I am running the up-to-date version of Ubuntu, set up on an Acer 64 bit machine with a Kingston solid state hard drive, with a set-up that allows me to boot into either Ubuntu (where I do about 95% of ...
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How can I rollback my GParted version?
I'm using ubuntu 14.04 with GParted 0.18. However, it seems to be inferior to previous iterations of it because it crashes every single time I try to resize a FAT32 partition or when I create a new ...
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Error "shockwave flash has crashed " google chrome ubuntu 14.04.1
I can not watch videos on twitch because shockwave flash crashes.
I tried to disable the flash in the plugins but I only seen one Flash plugin.
Before when I used 12.10, I saw 3 plugins for Flash, ...
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Multiple Ubuntu Flavours crash and reboot on resume from sleep. Doesn't appear to be Nvidia issue - UPDATED LOGS
Laptop appears to suspend fine. but upon opening or pressing power to wake, keyboard lights up and then system reboots. Gigabyte Aorus 15 XE4. Nvidia RTX 3070ti. Issue persists on Intel, Hybrid, ...
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Ubuntu 23.10 gnome-shell v45.0/v45.1 crashes on restart
I just upgraded from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10.
New problem that I didn't have before. When I restart gnome-shell with Alt + F2, then r, then Enter, it totally crashes gnome-shell, and shows a full ...
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22.04 - GDM Shell crashes (occasionally) after login
How would I diagnose a GDM crash after login. I can still SSH into the machine and I've been "fixing" broken shell session with:
$ sudo systemctl stop gdm
$ sudo systemctl start gdm
What ...
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Random crash - what's happening?
I'm experiencing random crashes in my Ubuntu 22.10. When it happens, I just click to send the crash report. Apart from that, I can use Ubuntu just fine.
But I would like to understand what is causing ...