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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What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?

All operating systems freeze sometimes, and Ubuntu is no exception. What should I do to regain control when... just one program stops responding? nothing at all responds to mouse clicks or key ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 keep freezing randomly

This issue i had it with 15.10 and it's still here after the 16.04 upgrade. The whole system freezes, no keyboard/mouse input works anymore. I tried a variety of keyboard combinations (found on the ...
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Ubuntu 19.10 freezes and lags reguarly

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 my system freezes/lags regularly. The mouse, keyboard and screen are completely stuck, after a few seconds it "unfreezes" again. Sometimes it repeats the input I did. ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 boot stuck on purple screen after updates

Summary of Issue Last Friday, I installed updates to Ubuntu 18.04 with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. Some of these updates required a restart. Upon restart, after GRUB, boot got ...
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Ubuntu Bionic Beaver freezes randomly

a few days ago I upgraded my machine (Lenovo ThinkPad T510) from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu Bionic Beaver, and since then my machine freezes somehow randomly when I use LibreOffice or when I look at ...
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System freezes/unresponsive/unusable when copying large file to USB

Yesterday I was copying a single, 8 GB file to a USB with a slow, 7 MB/s write speed, while my RAM is 3 GB. While copying the system froze, to the point where I couldn't even move the cursor. I ...
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Making youtube fullscreen will freeze Unity (the whole desktop)

I never had this problem until today. When I watch a youtube video everything is fine, until I make the video fullscreen. It actually continues to play perfectly when fullscreen, but when I then exit ...
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Freeze after login Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]

Before the upgrade I was using gnome on Ubuntu 16.04 with lightdm and it worked fine. After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 I switched to gnome gdm3. On the first day I could login to my user account, ...
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How can I restart GNOME Shell, after it freezes or becomes unresponsive?

Sometimes, my GNOME Shell freezes. I can see (hear) background processes working (playing music), but I can't do anything in GNOME. No Alt+F2 followed by R and Enter. I can switch to console using: ...
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Laptop freezes after connecting external monitor, since 16.04 update

I have a Zenbook UX303U with integrated Intel HD5000, and using an external monitor worked fine until I updated to Ubuntu 16.04LTS this weekend. Now, when I plug my second screen and then move the ...
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13.10 hangs on waking from suspend except when suspended from console

I know waking from suspend is an issue, but this looks like a separate bug. When I suspend 13.10 on HP Pavillion dv6 (AMD 6770M/fglrx 13.10.10) from x, it suspends normally but freezes when waking. I ...
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Ubuntu freezes randomly with audio playing in the background

I am hardcore Windows user and recently moved to Ubuntu to try Linux, I can see how Linux is better, I am loving it. However, I have been experiencing problems with Ubuntu going unresponsive. ...
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Ubuntu freezes. Which logs can I check out?

So my computer has lately started freezing completely when I run some programs that, in the past, would work great. What I am unsure about however, is what logs that are available to me that could ...
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Why does my 'Caps Lock' diode blink when my system freezes?

I noticed a peculiar behavior of my Ubuntu 13.04 (although possibly it's also present in previous versions): when my system freezes completely (I do not ask for troubleshooting this) so that even X ...
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Investigating a system "freeze"

Am on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Linux skiran 2.6.32-32-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 22:10:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux My machine froze for the 5th time in 2 days. Had to reboot, and login to a ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 has visual artifacts and freezes

I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my laptop Sony Vaio VPCEA16FG. I have been getting system freezes (everything including display, mouse, keyboard stops working and I have to do a restart ...
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Installation on new laptop DELL Inspiron 5491 freezes

I have a similar laptop to Ubuntu 19.10 installer doesn't start on my Dell Inspiron 5491 But I am opening another question as the problem I face is different. The laptop is quite new and did not ...
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Computer freezing on almost full RAM, possibly disk cache problem

The problem I think is somewhat similar to this thread. It doesn't matter if I have swap enabled or disabled, whenever the real used RAM amount starts going close to maximum and there is almost no ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 lts freezes while in boot, in wndows Virtual box. Solution?

I am Using Ubuntu in Virtual Box.. the Host OS is Windows10 with dedicated intel's Graphics. I have reinstalled twice, probably this starts due to sudden shutdown or some reason. Dnt know whats the ...
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Black screen on boot after AMDGPU-Pro install (16.04)

I have been having some screen freezing issues on my new Ubuntu 16.04 system, and have been in the troubleshooting process for this issue. I thought it was a graphics driver problem, as I am running ...
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Freezing of screen on Ubuntu 16.04

I have recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 and it seems to freeze randomly. I tried to check out the the solutions at Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 keep freezing randomly but on installing these kernels, I got a ...
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kwin becomes unresponsive, need to restart session

After upgrading Kubuntu from 18.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, I'm experiencing occasional "freezing" of the desktop. All the windows lose their edges and I cannot navigate between them. After some ...
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System freeze after suspend

Since I installed Ubuntu 16.04 my laptop (HP Probook 450 G2) has issues waking up from suspend. Rarely it manages to properly wake up from suspend, but mostly the screen either stays black or it turns ...
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How do I diagnose Hang on Shutdown?

Since one or two months ago, my laptop with ubuntu 12.10x64 hangs during shutdown. There's just a black screen, no harddisk activity, it justs sits there. I feel it happens near the end of a normal ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 installation problem

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 from flash disk on my laptop (Asus x550j) but each time it freezes at the "updates and other software" page. I tried different ways: normal install, minimal install,...
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How do I get my USB keyboard to not freeze up in the recovery menu? [closed]

I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I enter the recovery menu, my keyboard freezes and I can't make any selections. I have tried using GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="usb usb_keyboard" but this doesn't help ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 random freezes

I am experiencing weird freeze of Ubuntu 20.04. I cannot move the cursor, audio stops and I have to hard reboot with the power button. I have a Dell Inspiron 15 7501 (+8GB ram installed by myself) ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 Freezing Issue [duplicate]

Otherwise stable Ubuntu machine have an issue since installing that is critical freezing without apparent reasons. There are high probabilities that the issue been caused by NVDIA videocard. complete ...
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Entire system freezing after pressing "Suspend" [closed]

So I just installed Ubuntu, and I love it. I don't think it's going to replace Windows 7 for me, and it has a few problems that I'm probably going to end up fixing when I figure out how to use WINE, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Freezes randomly and media loops the last 1-2 seconds clip

After a few days of installation of Ubuntu 20.04 on my Desktop system, I am facing this issue of my OS freezing at random intervals. Happening 2-3 times a day. The question may be similar to this one ...
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Ubuntu UI screen image freezes randomly during usage after fresh 21.04 install, suspecting Wayland or Nouveau

Edit: reported this at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wayland/+bug/1931387 as well, and it was found to be a duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/+bug/1497593 I ...
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14.04 Freeze on Splash after Installing NVIDIA Drivers

First of all, I have looked at a bunch of threads that are similar, but none of the solutions work for me. I am trying to install nvidia drivers (nvidia-340, specifically) but when I reboot the system ...
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Ubuntu is quickly running out of RAM, and my computer is starting to freeze. What command will solve this?

It happens pretty often to me when I am compiling software in the background and suddenly everything starts to slow down and eventually freeze up [if I do nothing], as I have run out of both RAM and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS very often freezes randomly and does not recover without force shutdown

I am running Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS x86_64 on Intel Core i7-9750H, GTX 1650 (mobile?), 16GB RAM, NVME m.2 SSD and I do not have any other operating systems installed. Since this Wednesday (25 Aug 2021), ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Screen Freezes Randomly with NVidia and it is possible to fix with Ctrl + Alt + F2 then Ctrl + Alt + F7

I use Ubuntu 14.04 on my Asus N550JK laptop and have NVidia GeForce GTX 850M graphics card. The problem is that screen keeps randomly freezing while performing everyday tasks. When the screen freezes ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS randomly freezes (graphics/unity only) [duplicate]

When I'm just chilling on the desktop or doing whatever, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will (every 10-20 minutes or so) just randomly freeze. The screen just stops, I can't see my mouse move, etc. However, I can ...
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Problem with USB mouse in Ubuntu 16.04

Since I have Ubuntu 16.04 have not had any problems with the PS2 mouse, but a week ago I placed a new mouse USB. This mouse freezes randomly (Sometimes while I am using the PC and sometimes this ...
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Alt-tab crashes gnome classic desktop (12.04)

I have a fresh install of ubuntu 12.04 and noticed alt-tab wasn't working. I followed some advice and installed compizconfig settings manager, wherein I checked Application Switcher. Then alt-tab ...
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What's the best way to effectively report bugs?

I've been trying to report a bug about Activities in Kubuntu causing me no end of grief with multiple issues ranging from annoying to total freeze/crash requiring hardware reset. I'm trying to follow ...
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14.04 Desktop Unresponsive When Applications Minimized

Ive read quite a few very similar issues on here as what follows, though none match the exact symptoms Im experiencing. After a recent update, Ive noticed that when I minimize all my application ...
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How to Fix Firefox when it freezes completely after open it?

First time ever today Firefox Version 3.6.13 freezed for me on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. I open Firefox normally but then nothing respond on the GUI.The only thing I can do is close it. When Closed I try ...
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Ubuntu (15.10, 16.04, 16.10) freezes on resume from suspend (only on battery)

I've been struggling with freezing issues on suspend/resume since I got my Dell Inspiron 7559 in April. I've already followed a lot of posts with regards to this problem but haven't found a solution ...
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Ubuntu freeze on boot purple screen

After a day of restarting my computer i finally given up. I had Ubuntu 18.10 installed and worked perfectly and then i got the upgrade prompt and upgraded to 19.04. The upgrade crashed and after that ...
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Ubuntu freezes when RAM usage spikes

This issue persisted for a while, but it feels like it became extremely frequent (instead of once in a while, it happens almost every day) once I upgraded from 18.04 to 20.04. Whenever stuff happens - ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 freezes when watching youtube videos [closed]

When I watch videos on YouTube, the computer starts freezing. Sometimes it unfreezes after 10 seconds or so, but sometimes it doesn't. It happens both in Firefox and Chromium, although in Chromium it'...
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Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS freezes randomly - the cursor will not move either. Any solution to prevent this from happening?

I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on Dell XPS 15 9618 which has 16 GB RAM 8th Generation Intel Core i7-8750H Processor (9MB Cache, up to 4.1 GHz, 6 Cores) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti with ...
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Unable to install/boot 11.04 on a ThinkPad L520

I have just got a ThinkPad L520 and my first step, naturally, is to install Ubuntu. I've got the 11.04 amd64 Alternate CD, but every time I run anything from the first menu I just get a blank screen. ...
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Chrome freezes on startup and when opening the Downloads tab

Chrome is always unresponsive on startup for about 3 seconds. Similarly it often becomes unresponsive and freezes when going to Downloads (Here the tab doesn't open correctly initially having the ...
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bad ram in DIMM1 need to limp by till monday, can I temporarily disable a memory slot?

Got to work, started windows, immediately blue screened as soon as I logged in. After a few tries I ran diagnostics and found the ram in dimm1 was bad. I can boot into Ubuntu and it runs pretty well ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 randomly freezes on Dell Precision M4500

I know this has been asked several times, but many of them are tagged as duplicates and sent back to what should I do if the computer freezes. I don't want the computer to freeze and only want those ...
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