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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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Is there anything to check after your computer locks up or freezes?

I have a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop with Ubuntu 14.04, that has worked very well for over a year. However, recently I have been experiencing freezes where the machine does not respond to any ...
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File transfer is freezing while copying [duplicate]

When I make any data transfer process (from computer to usb), after a couple of seconds file transfer process freezes. It be normal after a few minutes later but again freezes. If there would no ...
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Purple Screen frozen upon reboot

So yesterday I managed to install Linux, by adding the commands nomodeset and idle=nomwait to the grub. I'm still getting error messages, but at least I was able to enter the desktop (only in the same ...
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Mysterious minutes-long system freeze

I'm currently experiencing very long periods of time (~5 minutes at a time) during which my laptop freezes. I've taken an image of the situation to point out a few symptoms (couldn't take a screenshot ...
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Help with intermittent freezing after resume from suspend in 20.04 and amd RX570 graphics

I've had this problem with 19.10 and now 20.04. I did not have this problem with 18.04 which I built this computer with back in Feb 2020. I did a clean install for 20.04. Briefly, after some variable ...
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Is an ACPI GPE storm normal in an Ubuntu session?

In a previous question (What is an ACPI GPE storm?), I asked about ACPI GPE storm. Looking closer to my kern.log file in /var/log/, I notice that in every session at some point (usually withing 20' ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 is freezing randomly

I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my laptop Dell Inspiron 5000 (AMD Ryzen 5 2500U/8 GB RAM/1 TB HDD/Windows 10/39.62 cm (15.6 Inch) FHD/Vega 8 Graphics) Inspiron 5575 The os is freezing randomly even ...
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Why does my laptop suddenly freeze after a period of time?

While using my laptop today for a span of 20 minutes I encountered a problem. My laptop suddenly froze. I was listening to music when the screen froze but the music was still playing. I've only ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Freeze

currently I've installed on my Lenovo G50-30 Ubuntu 16.04 64bit. Now I got after the system is running for a short or a longer time desktop freezes. As desktop software I use Unity, also tried Xfce -> ...
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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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18.04 freezing - how to diagnose / suggestions? (Lenovo x260)

I recently upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 and have been experiencing hard system freezes, and wondering how to best diagnose these. Here's what has been happening: system completely freezes - display ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 freezes regularly (Dell XPS 13 9343)

Since my upgrade from 19.04 to 19.10, I experience regular short freezes/lags on my Ubuntu system. I can see that some have similar issues (this post or that one). It is not only mouse freezes but ...
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Random freezing during installation

I want to install Linux on "Dream Machines" notebook based on Clevo mainboard. It's worth mentioning that it has a discrete NVidia GPU. The problem is that during each attempt to install I randomly ...
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Ubuntu freeze for 1 second every minute then resumes

this is my first question here in the forum. I'm quite ignorant on Linux overall, I am doing my first steps now. I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my computer that is a Samsung notebook, I7, 8gb Ram, ...
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Ubuntu freezes a few minutes after login

I use Ubuntu 15.10 (running from the disk) I run diagnostics and the disk doesn't seem to have any problems nor my drive should have (it and "expensive" bd-r DVD-r drive from a big brand and never had ...
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Mouse can still move but no clicks are registered and everything is locked up [closed]

Every now and then everything appears to lock up and I can't really do anything. I can move my mouse and it will reflect that on the screen but I can't really do anything else. Sitting long enough it ...
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Laptop freezes whenever I unplug/plug in AC adapter

I have a Samsung Series 9 laptop, model NP900X4C. For a long time now this laptop has had issues with the battery and AC adapter, like this, which got fixed about six months ago: https://bugs....
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Gnome Shell freezes when using external USB drives

Sometimes my system freezes when I use my external USB HDD (Western Digital 500GB). I am using a freshly upgraded Ubuntu 11.10 installation. The freeze is not reproducable but always happens right ...
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Ubunty 14.04 freezes when I select a big chunk of text in LibreOffice

When I start selecting text (size of more then a paragraph) in LibreOffice, the entire system freezes. If I use the mouse and left click or press Ctrl+C, the system freezes so I cannot finish ...
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Freeze at startup: "It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Ubuntu" [closed]

Just after an update from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and a restart, Ubuntu freeze at startup on a dialog saying: "It seems that you do not have the hardware required to run Unity. Please choose Ubuntu ...
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Freeze installing Ubuntu 18.04 on OMEN by HP

I bought a new OMEN Laptop by HP and I tried to install Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 LTS using a live USB Drive. Every looked good until showed the desktop screen, in this moment the computer friezed. Then I ...
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Freeze after startup [closed]

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my computer. At first it worked just fine, but when i started updating the system just "updated" the screen, and then freezed. Same thing happens when I log in. Any ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 stuck at "reboot: Restarting System"

I know this has been asked multiple times before, but most of these threads don't have an answer. I tried user62664's solution here and ran sudo update-grub successfully, but nothing changed. This ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 freezes after update

I am working with Ubuntu 12.04 for a while now, constantly upgrading and afterwards cleaning with Ubuntu-Tweak's Janitor. Everthing went fine until about two weeks ago: then my computer constantly ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes randomly, suspecting Nvidia driver

Ubuntu 20.04 freezes randomly, sometimes after 20 minutes, sometimes after several hours. This means I can't move the mouse nor do anything with my keyboard. If sound is playing it repeats in ~2 ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 freezing, requires hard shutdown

OS: Ubuntu 19.10 Kernel: 5.3.0-26-generic Machine: Dell 7590 BIOS Information: Version: 1.5.0, Release Date: 12/25/2019 Gnome: 3.34.2 Description: starting 15-1-2020, I was updating a script for OLED ...
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New installed Ubuntu 18.04 freezes

I've just installed Ubuntu 18.04 instead of Ubuntu 16.04 which was working just fine After installing Ubuntu 18.04, it freezes a lot, especially directly after logging in. If I tried to log in with ...
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Change user on 11.10 hangs system

When a user locks the screen and another user tries to enter, the system first paints the white space for the password textbox, but doesn't put the cursor in it. Afterwards, no textbox appears, so the ...
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12.04: LightDM freezes while "Logging in..." - maybe due to deactivated login sound [closed]

good morning, lightdm freezes often after I entered my passwort. It hangs exactly saying "logging in...". It's no total system breakdown though. I found out that there is already an existing bug ...
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System freezes on disk I/O

I am using Ubuntu 18.04 and since few weeks (I cannot say when exactly), my system is experiencing freezes when there are disk I/Os. My system is installed on an ext4 partition of a SSD. Even if the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 freezes randomly after RAM and SSD upgrade

I previously had an 8GB of RAM and 1TB of hard disk on my ASUS VivoBook R542UQ-DM153. I've added a 250GB WD Blue SSD and an 8GB of RAM. Total RAM now is 16GB. I've also made a fresh installation of ...
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Complete freezing - Ubuntu 20.04, probable problem with AMD driver

From time to time, my laptop unexpectedly decides: "It's time to FREEZE!". Then I cannot move my mouse or type. Ctrl+Alt+F3 doesn't work, the clock in the upper bar stops, the screen is ...
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Clevo N850EL crashes/freezes Ubuntu 18.04.1 frequently

I just bought a brand new Clevo N850EL (in some regions can also branded as Prostar or Sager NP4850), with CPU i7-8750H, 32GB RAM. Ubuntu 18.04.1 installs OK and appears to run fine (with me working,...
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Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 freeze and white screen with nvidia gtx 660

I've been trying to get Ubuntu to work (dual booted with Win7) on my new computer for a week now and have not found a working solution. System specs: Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.50 GHz 250 GB SSD Samsung ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 freezes issue

I'm running 20.04 on my desktop (with Nvidia 2080 super and Nvidia 440 driver) and it often freezes. I am suppose there could be an issue the bluetooth driver, or there could be an issue with gcc ...
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Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 Keeps on Freezing [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What should I do when Ubuntu freezes? Since I installed Ubuntu 12.04 it keeps on freezing. It happens on different PCs and I don't think it's a memory problem. For example, I ...
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Shutdown fails after upgrading from lucid to maverick? [closed]

It didn't happen in my computer, but in my girlfriend's pc. She upgraded to maverick and now it doesn't shutdown properly, the screen just freezes and she has to shutdown pressing and holding the ...
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Constant freezes on new Sandy Bridge Thinkpad

I've had my Thinkpad T420 (integrated graphics, 8GB RAM, i5) for less than a month. I couldn't successfully install Natty (installer finished, but wouldn't boot), so I went with Maverick instead. On a ...
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Ubuntu freezes only mouse cursor movable and keyboard solutions don't work

Solutions like Ctrl+Alt+F1, Alt+PrtScreen+K and its variants all don't work, it seems my keyboard is frozen. And could anyone spot what caused system failing? I attach my syslog here: May 15 14:05:46 ...
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My Ubuntu Freeze on full screen (online & offline) (Videos & Photos)

When I go on full screen for example when I see a picture on full screen, play a video on full screen (Youtube or offline), my computer hangs/stucks/freeze. But I still able to open my terminal by ...
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Intel Apollo Lake (J3455) random frequent freezes on UI and MCE error on boot

I'm having problems with ASRock J3455-ITX running Ubuntu 16.10. First noticeable issue is related to random freezes in the system. They are definitely easier to reproduce while e.g. opening multiple ...
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Ubuntu 16.04.1 keeps randomly freezing on installation [closed]

I use windows10 on my ssd.And i bought a harddisk which i want to install ubuntu in it. I installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS amd64,and by using "Rufus" i made an image on my 3.0 Usb.I plugged in my usb into ...
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Screen turns off without reason

The precise problem The screen turns off the display suddenly, and does not respond to the mouse or keyboard. What actually happens?? When I am working on my PC (OS - Ubuntu 14.10) suddenly without ...
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Fresh upgraded 22.04 freezes instantaneously after login

I have a 2015 Acer S7 393, i5-5200U cpu, 8 Gb ram, HD5550 graphics, 2 * 64 Gb IRST kingston SSD, upgraded yesterday from 20.04.4 LTS (working fine) to 22.04 LTS. The pc freezes after logging in (...
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ubuntu 17.04 freezes after safe removing usb flash or hdd

My laptop (dell studio xps 1640) is running a kubuntu 17.04 with kernel 4.10.0-42-generic. Most of the times when i connect a USB or HDD device, after safe removing the device when i physically remove ...
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Random freezes in Ubuntu: Seeking a diagnosis method

I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with a powerfull hardware (12GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Core i7 CPU). However, the system randomly freezes for 5-10 seconds. It seems that a process is blocking everything, or some ...
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Random freezes followed by loss of WiFi connection with a BCM4313 wireless card [closed]

I did a clean install of Natty Narwhal on my AspireOne D255 Netbook. Right off the bat, it seems to work right out of box, but from time to time (especially shortly after booting up or resuming from ...
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Ubuntu freezes while FF or Chromium are running

Following a regular software update my Ubuntu installation became unstable. The problem first manifested on 16.04. Each time I opened Firefox 53.0, the whole system froze within a minute of browsing. ...
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Regular crash / freeze Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Unity

I work uninterruptedly for 8-10 hours a day, and every single day the system completely freezes - mouse, keyboard, music, videos and anything running stops. After a minute or 2, the system gradually ...
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Kubuntu/Ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa LTS freezing randomly

I am newbie in Ubuntu world who have just recently started to use after migrating from window. I have been experiencing very weird random frequent freeze in Ubuntu/Kubuntu. I am using 16GB of memory ...
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