Questions tagged [freeze]

A freeze or hang is when the system becomes unresponsive for some period of time. This may relate to memory usage, graphics issues, or something else. If you are having this problem, be sure to include details of your hardware and configuration in your question.

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Random freeze of the desktop environment

I have an old laptop running Ubuntu Mate 22.04 LTS that randomly freezes on the desktop environment. It happens most of the times while I am watching a movie or a video on YouTube, but no idea what is ...
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Firefox freezes in foreground

While using Firefox actively, it freezes. I can't scroll, nor can I interact in any other way with it. Although it seems like actions are passed through to the program. For example, I am somewhat able ...
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Ubuntu freezes when running any game

Running Ubuntu 22.0.4 LTS desktop with Kernel 5.18 on a Razer Blade 2022 laptop.It has 12th gen Intel i9, GEforce RTX 3080Ti, Quad 240Hz display, 36 GB RAM, 1TB SSD if that helps. The whole system ...
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Virtualbox freezes desktop in Ubuntu 22.10

So I've had this Ubuntu 22.10 install on this laptop for a little bit and decided to try out arch linux in virtualbox. For some reason, after a little while of trying to get it set up, the entire ...
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Laptop freezing for some second

I state that I am not an expert in linux and computer science in general, however I have already searched in the forum but I have not found a solution, or I have not been able given the above ...
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Ubuntu suddenly crashes, then all the icons turn into grey boxes

Sometimes Ubuntu 20.04 suddenly crashes and all of the icons turn into grey boxes. The system doesn't freeze and I can still move the mouse around, but that's about it. No terminal, no apps, etc... I'...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes randomly

Description of freeze: First the screen freezes but the cursor remains reactive for few seconds. Sometimes the screen goes black. Any music playing at that time continues playing without any problems....
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Ubuntu 22 freezes, syslog spammed with Nouveau entries

Was on a Zoom call with the screen shared, and everything suddenly freezes. Audio worked for a bit afterwards, but eventually stopped working as well. Taking a look at the system log after a hard ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is not running properly in Lenovo Thinkbook 13s gen 4 ryzen 7 6800u 16gb

I have recently dual booted Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 11. When I boot Ubuntu it runs but the typing is lagged when typing with the built-in keyboard and the mouse right click is sometimes stuck ...
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How to understand Ubuntu 22.04.1 freeze syslog?

I have run cat /var/log/syslog after my Ubuntu desktop froze and necessitated a forced power button reboot of the system. I'm curious if anyone else can make sense of what could have happened here? ...
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Gnome-Desktop Graphics Freeze when Interacting with the Mouse

Recently some of my applications freeze graphically when interacting with the mouse. Applications: Gnome-Terminal, Gnome-Calendar, Gnome-Mines, Nautilus, Terminator (Seems like anything gnome related ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS randomly stops working

I have a headless install of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a desktop that I'm using as a server and it will occasionally stop working. I can't determine what causes it as it happens both when the server is idle ...
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Vbox Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Guest Freezes on a Windows 10 Host

The problem is very simple. I am using Windows 10 as my primary OS, and as I work on Django web projects, I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on an Oracle VirtualBox version 6.0.14 r133895, also inserting ...
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Crashing Kubuntu 22.04 in first boot

I have problem with first boot Kubuntu 22.04 Boot going fast, but in last moment he get freeze at logo. I waited almost 15 minutes. One interesting thing in log file: Jul 22 17:12:51 systemd[1]: ...
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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.4 Hangs While Restarting

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.4 inside a VirtualBox VM. My Ubuntu hangs very often, possibly every single restart it seems, although it wasn't like this before. When this happens, I can force a VM reset, ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes

I just started using Ubuntu 22.04 and it keeps freezing a couple seconds after starting forcing me to restart the laptop with the power button. I'm guessing it has something to do with the graphics ...
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Freezing/unresponsive/non-rendering windows on window managers when opening other applications from them

I am having some issues with Windows or actually whole processes freezing, when another is started from them until that started process is closed again. meph@mephtow:~$ neofetch .-/+...
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System hangs randomly for a few seconds when bluetooth headphones are connected

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.13.0-44. When I connect my Bluetooth headphones everything appears to be working as usual and then at randomly intervals, or what appear to be random to me, my ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu Guest VM freezes after Run /init process

I am using 64-bit Windows 10 Host for VirtualBox 6.1.34 for Ubuntu Guest OS. As shown in the image below, my bootup freezes after this. Seems like some VirtualBox error (or) some Host machine problem. ...
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Lenovo touchpad intermittently freezing

I installed Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows 11 on a new Lenovo laptop. Intermittently, the touchpad stops working, and when this happens, usually the keyboard becomes unresponsive as well. It ...
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System freezes for a couple seconds when pressing the forward slash "/" key in a Corsair Vengeance K90 keyboard on Ubuntu based distros

So, when I'm type the forward slash key, the whole system freezes for a couple seconds. This is only happening with my Corsair K90 keyboard. What I've got so far: Using another keyboard (Logitech ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes immediately after login

It was working normal I was just trying to upgrade python version. Suddenly my computer freezes. I hard shutdown the computer and restarted it again. After login the desktop shows but my mouse freezes ...
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KUbuntu 22.04 jammy host, Virtualbox 6.1.32 Windows guest: GUI freezes in both directions

I am running a windows guest in Virtual Box on Kubuntu 22.04 jammy with kernel 5.15.0-27-generic. From time to time I experience different kinds of freezes. Sometimes, when I am in the VM I can ...
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Once another `PCIe Bus Error: serverity=Uncorrected`

Background: Last year I got a new HP computer. It is a HP Spectre x360 14-ea0775ng . I installed Ubuntu in it: $ uname -a Linux my-HPPC 5.13.0-40-generic #45~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 4 09:38:31 UTC ...
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Ubuntu freezing on the latest Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS - Lenovo Ideapad

I just installed Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS and deleted all my files and everything and now I'm unable to use the latest version after successful installation. It always freezes and I have to Hard shutdown ...
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watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [kworker/0:2:101147] - up-board up² upsquared - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

we are using an up-board up² (up-squared) in a headless configuration as an IoT device to control different hardware via local REST interfaces. Sometimes when a USB device gets faulty or is damaged, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 frozen, keypad and touchpad were not working, and issue persisted after force shutdown and normal boot up

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and dual booted on HP Pavilion 15-ck063tx laptop. I booted Ubuntu during startup and everything started up like usual. However, the screen seemed to freeze, touchpad/mouse and ...
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Ubuntu freezing and requires a reboot (Firefox issue?)

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a Lenovo x220t thinkpad. Intel i5-2520 cpu, 4gb ram, Intel HD graphics 3000, kernel Linux 5.13.0-35-generic. All my software is up to date I believe. After working on my ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 keyboard (but not the mouse) freeze

since upgrading from linux-image-5.11.0-46-generic to linux-image-5.13.0-25-generic (and higher) I occasionally experience keyboard freezes on my laptop. Un- and re plugging in the external keyboard ...
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Install old version of Kdenlive

I recently switched back to Ubuntu proper (20.04 version) from Peppermint 10. So, I installed my programs including kdenlive 20.08.3 which worked fine for about 1 month. Then started to freeze at or ...
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HP G8 1040 with Ubuntu 21.10, power/freezing problem

I have new HP elitebook G8 1040 and I want to use Ubuntu 21.10 (because of some newer package versions). However, Ubuntu becomes unresponsive quite frequently (Gnome freezes and even ctrl+alt+fn is ...
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Frequent Complete Freezes On 20.04

Over the last few days, for no reason I can tell (no recent big updates), I've been experiencing frequent instances of complete system freezes. The mouse won't move, no key combinations trigger, and ...
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How do I troubleshoot a system freeze (100% unresponsive)?

I have xrdp set up and I frequently remote into my laptop running Ubuntu from my Windows desktop. Last night I remoted normally and instead of logging out, I shutdown the computer remotely. It ...
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Kubuntu install hangs on Connex LiteBook

I have a Connex LiteBook that won't load into Windows so I don't want to fix that and want to replace it with Ubuntu. Seeing as the LiteBook is pretty weak hardware wise I want to install Kubuntu. I ...
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Ubuntu Studio 21.10 Freezing, Requires Hard Reset [duplicate]

I can't seem to figure out the exact cause of the freezing. It seems to happen most often during video playback (Hulu, Netflix) in fullscreen mode and during gameplay through steam, but it's also ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 may have common issue of gnome-panel and album art that causes laptop to freeze

I hope this isn't my being a numpty, but if I am ... :-) My laptop for the past maybe year regularly freezes - this can happen several times in a day, or it can last days without freezing. I replaced ...
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Frequent System Hangs Requiring Hard Reboot

I am a novice, relatively new to Ubuntu. In the past few days I have had numerous hangs using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a new ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard with AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPU that ran ...
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Obexctl does not properly initialise and freezes

I am encountering an issue when executing the "obexctl" command in Ubuntu terminal. Please refer to this article: https://ubuntu.com/core/docs/bluez/reference/sending-files So at times when ...
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Opening Nautilus hangs with CIFS shares mounted

Ubuntu 20.04 desktop here, fresh install. Have set up 3 cifs mounts from a NAS in /etc/fstab (mounted as smbv3). It's all working great except every time I open a new nautilus file dialog/explorer. ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 is freezing every login, what can I do to diagnose?

The hardware all passes the dell diagnostics and the SMART check on the hard disk. The laptop is freezing randomly, sometimes at the disk decryption screen, sometimes after 10 minutes of logging in, ...
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Ubuntu hangs due to Xorg process

I am using Ubuntu 20.04. Once in a fortnight or so, the system hangs, and the system fan goes to full speed at the same time. After that, no keyboard or mouse input works, not even Ctrl+Alt+F3 to ...
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Chrome freezing Ubuntu 20

I have seen similar issues with previous Ubuntu versions, and some that could solve or ease this activating GPU acceleration, but these don't work for me. I'm using a Gen 10 Core i7 with an integrated ...
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Ubuntu Freezes unpredictably

Ubuntu freezes without any discernible pattern. I could have few apps open or many. It freezes in the middle of a video or when the computer is not in use. The frequency of the freeze is not regular ...
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20.04 with mdadm and lvm hangs on shutdown

I have a server set up on 20.04 with two mdadm raids and lvm volumes put on top of those raid setups for /home on the first raid device and then /, /var and /tmp on the second raid device. Any time I ...
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System freezes randomly (18.04)

Recently my system (Ubuntu 18.04) my system freezes from time to time. It is completely unresponsive and even sending rusieb does not seem to get it out of it. This is the syslog of the latest freeze: ...
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Ubuntu freezes after executing python code in jupyter notebook

I tried executing this code in windows and it ran flawlessly but in Ubuntu as soon as I run this code, Ubuntu freezes for 3-4 mins and then the result come and then Ubuntu behaves laggy until I ...
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Fresh install of Ubuntu 21.04 freezes within minutes of booting (maybe related to updates)

I just installed Ubuntu on my "new" work laptop, a ThinkPad E470. It has frozen on me multiple times. It even froze during the installation process the first time, but the second time it ...
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Desktop Freezes every second with AnyDesk client connected

I have a strange issue with AnyDesk. I can use it fine to connect to other PC's. If anyone tries to connect to me as soon as I hit accept it seems to freeze for a micro second every 1 second. The only ...
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X freezing when starting some games on MacBook 5.1

Whenever I try to play games like "0ad" or "Widelands" or use the latest version of Firefox (release 87.0 worked fine, only later versions have the problem) X freezes. Sometimes it ...
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Ubuntu freezes totally; Unresponsive to SysRq reisub; Happens on fresh installs of various distributions; I'm stumped

I have a workstation. I've had the same issue occur after fresh installs of various distributions: Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 20.04, ElementaryOS. The workstation has an AMD Threadripper Processor, ASUS ROG ...
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