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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Ubuntu 22.04 Save as dialog box not showing

I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on my old macbok pro (mid 2010). The issue is I cant save changes made to any file, whether its a text document or pdf downloaded from the internet. On editing a ...
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22.04.3 System randomly hangs [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request

My system hangs completely every few weeks. The last line on the screen each time is: [drm:fw_domains_get [i915]] *ERROR* render: timed out waiting for forcewake ack request. This line is never ...
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Display freezing on wakeup

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have Lenovo Thinkpad E14 with dualboot Windows 10/Ubuntu 22.04. When I launch Ubuntu, there are no problems. But when the PC "goes to ...
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Random shutdowns/access log

I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my desktop. All went well at first but now every once and awhile my system restarts or freezes. Usually it restarts. After it restarts there is a log that ...
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facing complete ubuntu freeze with rtl871x

what is rlt871x? after almost getting all the info from forums , when i check my /var/log/syslog i found that there is something issue with my wifi driver which is causing freeze. the syslog is ...
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Ubuntu freeze and don't come back without reboot

I set up fresh Ubuntu 23.04 (with awesome-wm) on my PC and am now experiencing some freezes. Several times I left computer unattended, and when I return I see this situation: The LED on my monitor ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 screen always freezes with Google Meets

Every single time I am on a meeting on Google Meets, my Ubuntu crashes. The sound and mouse keep working, but the screen freezes. I use Opera Web Browser, and in addition to the browser with Google ...
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Why is the screen freezing on me?

Recently, my 22.04 installation started freezing in a particular way: screen frozen; keyboard input seemingly not doing anything; BUT computer still working. I know that 3 is true because I have ...
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Ubuntu freezes upon shutdown or closing of laptop, makes me force reboot with power button

Whenever I sleep, shutdown, or even close the lid of my laptop, ubuntu freezes and I must manually restart with the power button. This started about a month or two ago. I dual boot with Ubuntu and ...
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DELL: Integrated screen freeze but sounds goes on : reinstall Intel graphics drivers

I have a weird issue with my laptop : Dell XPS 15 9500 using Ubuntu 22.04.3. Suddenly, when watching videos or playing game, the screen freezes but the sounds carries on. When using also an external ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 random quick ui/input freeze

I’m experiencing random fast UI/input freezes. They are most noticeable while typing quickly. The UI/input just freezes for no more than a second. The freeze is really fast but it results in a very ...
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Failed method: org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.Read NotFound

The first time I detected this problem was when I opened pgadmin4. It displayed a window, but the screen was invisible. Then I noticed the same issue with Google Chrome. Additionally, the screen ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.01: freeze-ups on refreshing from locked screen

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04.01 last week, I have occasional freeze-ups on refreshing from a locked screen. My lock-screen requires my password to complete the re-opening. The freeze-ups occur ...
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Multiple freezing after Ubuntu 22.04 installation

I just finished installing Ubuntu 22.04 in my Dell Latitude E7250. I have tried installation multiple times with different options (Legacy, UEFI) on this computer, but every time after the ...
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Ubuntu whole system goes unresponsive from time to time

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on my Acer swift 3 laptop for a few months. In overall, system is performing well, but sometimes my laptop becomes totally unresponsive. In such cases, my only solution is ...
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Kubuntu 23.04 / 6.2.0-33-generic kernel: Blank screen w mouse and that’s it

When I boot up, I hit esc to get the console messages. I see smart and cups start, then I get where Plymouth boot and console setvtrgb.service finished. Then a mouse pointer that I can move appears ...
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Ubuntu freezes and apps don't work after I moved a file to init.d

I used sudo mv to put an .sh file into etc/init.d to make the system go through it on startup, but I either read a bad guide or didn't read carefully because I didn't configure it as I would in point ...
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Having issues logging in and crashing Ubuntu 22.04

I'm running into a problem where my Ubuntu freezes at login or soon after logging in. I'm running it off of Oracle VM VirtualBox. I get the following message before the login screen: /dev/sda3: ...
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Mouse click on Task Switch Bar leads to desktop freeze

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with Xorg. After the following steps, graphics continue working and getting updated on the screen, but mouse button/keyboard presses yield no response, except for Ctrl+Alt+XXX ...
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Restarting freezes due to snap

I have Ubuntu 22.04 Dell laptop. It freezes on restarts before I get to the disk encryption password. Looking at the restart log, I get: Could not detach /dev/dm-0. Device or resource busy Looking at ...
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Black Screen after wake from suspend on Ubuntu 21.04

I have a Dell Venue with an Intel CPU and Intel HD graphics card. After I suspend my PC and wake it up, the screen remains black. I can listen to the sound when I press, for example, the volume ...
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Ubuntu freezing after Kernel update

Details of my setup: Hardware: Thinkpad T14-Gen 2, AMD Ryzen 7 Pro graphics, 16G Ram. Software (currently): freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04.3LTS, Gnome 42.9. Problem description: I've been using Ubuntu ...
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How do I add extra download directories to AppArmor for Firefox running under snap?

I recently updated to Ubuntu 22.04.1 and went to a site where I occasionally download things from. I typically save files from this site to an sshfs mount shared from another system on my home network,...
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How do i repair taskbar freeze

Every time I turn on my PC I need to click right click on my taskbar and click either lock or unlock to see anything or when i turn on an app and it just doesnt appear and i have to do the same as ...
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Ubuntu Freezes, but audio still works

I'm Using Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and my system occasionally freezes. The Screen does not update, the keyboard does not seem to do anything and the power button does nothing, I can only Reisub. The only ...
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Ubuntu Freezes on booting from drive

I am attempting to install Ubuntu on my HP Laptop 14-cf1xxx. I have tried both Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.04.3. I followed the guide on the Ubuntu website (although I used Rufus to create the USB stick. When ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 shutdown freeze

A fey days ago, I found a problem with my laptop. When I tried to shutdown my laptop, the shutdown screen appears. A few seconds later, this screen is frozen and nothing happens. I tried to shutdown ...
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Glitches and freeze on Ubuntu 23.04 with AMD CPU

I've got a big problem on Ubuntu 23.04. I think could be a problem with graphic drivers, I randomly get glitches then laptop freeze and become unusable. It happen really often, about 4-5 minutes.
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Ubuntu 22.04 GPU Hang i915 Issue

My computer (specs at bottom of post) keeps freezing, and sometimes completely locking up needing a hard reset. I have found the error in the syslog, I'll post it below. The issue seems to occur semi ...
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Random black screen/ freeze while using ubuntu

I install ubuntu 22.04 and after it screen get black randomly also while booting same black screen issue is happen . when screen get black system also get freeze and for wakeup need to press any ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes frequently

My ubuntu 22.04 desktop was working fine until recently after I installed a bunch of drivers like cuda, cudnn, tensorrt. Now, it freezes frequently; network manager does not work, terminal does not ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes during shutdown

I recently set up Ubuntu 22.04 on my MSI laptop running Windows 11 as a dual boot. The Ubuntu portion is running on my second SSD, so the two OS's are running each on their own drive. When I shutdown ...
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Ubuntu boot screen freezes on start-up

When I start Ubuntu it freezes while charging (view image added). Ubuntu 20.04 is installed in dual boot mode.
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LibreOffice calc freezes when saving document

I am using LibreOffice 7.3.7.2 in Ubuntu 22.04. Things have been working fine for over a year now, but today I wanted to use LibreOffice Calc and found that it freezes when I want to save whatever ...
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how to disable GPU's ULPS (Ultra-low power state) feature?

Since 2011, AMD has an ULPS (Ultra-low power state) feature in its GPUs also marketed as "AMD ZeroCore Power" technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Core_Next#ZeroCore_Power At ...
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Acer Aspire 43 graphical glitch with Ubuntu 22.04

When I put my Ubuntu 22.04 into sleep mode and attempt to turn the device again, the screen shows an unknown glitch, and the device freezes (the glitch begins at responding to commands, and then the ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Freezing

I just recently moved from Win10 to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS .3 for a week. Everything was fined except one thing: Ubuntu usually freezes randomly (cant do anything, cant move the mouse or enter any key). My ...
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Ubuntu stops working after I log back in from Sleep

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in VirtualBox Version 7.0.6 on Windows 11. Whenever my laptop goes to sleep while Ubuntu is active, after pressing a button and waking it up, my VirtualBox screen shrinks ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 freezes randomly on my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 laptop

I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3 laptop. It freezes randomly anytime and often after boot. In that case I have to long press power button and shut down the system and then ...
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Shutdown freeze after system updates

I have Ubuntu 20.04 and this morning the computer requested to restart after system updates I restart but it froze on the shut down at the Deactivating swap step. Should I turn off the PC from the CPU ...
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How to leave some RAM aside for virtual terminal?

I want to leave some RAM aside for a virtual terminal that is accessed through Ctrl+Alt+F2. When my computer froze, I tried to switch over to it to kill some processes, but it was not being brought up,...
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Unexpected high resources consumption from gnome-javascript

I'm running Ubuntu Lunar 23.04. I've acceptable computing resources but for some reason the GNOME desktop environment keeps freezing for a moment then it returns back to normal without crashing, ...
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Can not login to (graphical terminal) and stuttering

I'm new to Linux and chose Ubuntu onto recommendation of The Odin project. I got an issue that everything is slow and laggy (stuttering) and I tried to fix it with doing system updates. According to ...
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Freezes and reboots that seem to be linked to updates

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.15.0-78-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® ...
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AMD freeze when playing: amdgpu ERROR Failed to initialize parser

I randomly get freezes when playing Valheim on Ubuntu 22.04. journalctl says: Aug 02 22:49:38 myworkstation systemd[1]: Starting Download data for packages that failed at package install time... Aug ...
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Ubuntu 22.04.1 Freezes Randomly

So I have Ubuntu 22.04.1 running on a fairly new desktop (specs below). Since installation there always have been some minor freezes here and there, but nothing that couldn't be fixed by rebooting or ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start after software update

After a software update Ubuntu asked me to restart it. Instead I shut it down, because I had to leave. On the next start attempt the start freezes without a real error (there is a standard message ...
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Ubuntu Freezes Up

Every time I open my VM and log into Ubuntu, the system freezes up. I am currently using Windows 11 Pro Operating system. I am experiencing many freezes up and I am using Firefox within Ubuntu to log ...
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My Ubuntu 20.04 gets stuck many times. keyboard and mouse also do not respond

My Ubuntu 20.04 gets stuck many times. Keyboard and mouse also do not respond. journalctl -r logs file attached while system is stuck at around 9.30 AM:
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purple screen on load ubuntu 22.04

I have a dual boot Ubuntu 22.04 and windows 11. I changed nvidia driver then reboot ubuntu. I selected ubuntu in grub but i cannot access login. I am sctuck in a purple/black creen without any cursor ...

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