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Questions tagged [freeze]

when the computer or an application is not responding

Use this tag when something is locked up, frozen, hung, not responding, not reacting to user input. Always use it in combination with one or more tags describing what has locked up (the operating system? an application?).

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How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?

It's a situation that has happened quite often to me: after I press (with a different intention) Ctrl-S in a terminal, the interaction (input or output) with it is frozen. It's probably a kind of "scroll lock" or whatever. How do I unfreeze the…
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What to do when a Linux desktop freezes?

I'm a Windows guy, dual booted recently, and now I'm using Linux Mint 12 When a Windows desktop freezes I refresh, or if I am using a program I use alt + F4 to exit the program or I can use ctrl + alt + delete and this command will allow me to fix…
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Why is my PC freezing while I'm copying a file to a pendrive?

I have a really strange situation here. My PC works fine, at least in most cases, but there's one thing that I can't deal with. When I try to copy a file from my pendrive, everything is ok -- I got 16-19M/s , it works pretty well. But when I try to…
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System hanging when it runs out of memory

I've got an eeePC 900a: it has a 8GB flash as disk and only 1GB of RAM. The Linux distribution installed on it is ArchLinux. When the system runs out of memory it becomes extremely unresponsive: it takes several seconds/minutes to do things like…
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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 sometimes with no application on or sometimes just…
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How to fix non-responsive Ubuntu system?

I use Ubuntu. Sometimes, the system does not have any response with mouse and keyboard. Is there any way to solve this problem except hitting the reset button on the machine?
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How to completely disable swap?

I am using Debian sid, hard drive formatted with ext4, running on linux 3.1 I remember on previous linux versions (maybe before 3.0), if I run out of memory, and swap is not enabled, programs will usually crash. This is perfect for my environment:…
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What can make Linux unresponsive for minutes when browsing certain websites?

I'm using Linux 4.15, and this happens to me many times when the RAM usage reaches its top - The whole OS becomes unresponsive, frozen and useless. The only thing I see it to be working is the disk (main system partition), which is massively in…
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Cursor freezes - keystrokes to release?

Occasionally the mouse cursor will freeze - I have to reboot. In Ubuntu is there a keystroke combination such as Ctrl+Alt+Del which would enable me to continue working without having to reboot?
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How to force Linux kernel to "freeze" (or nearly freeze) for a few hundred milliseconds

We are running a real-time process on a non real-time kernel (CentOS 6), and this is probably not going to change. We have a streaming video application that requires about 500 MB/s of PCIe traffic from a custom FPGA continuously for 1.5 hours at a…
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How to prevent fork bomb?

To prevent fork bomb I followed this http://www.linuxhowtos.org/Tips%20and%20Tricks/ulimit.htm ulimit -a reflects the new settings but when I run (as root in bash) :(){ :|:&};: the VM still goes on max CPU+RAM and system will freeze. How to ensure…
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Ubuntu 16.04 - GUI freezes on login start page

I am unable to enter anything at the login screen; it just freezes directly after the page shows. The cursor inside the login form blinks about 10 times, then it stops. I can't move the mouse or use the keyboard. I already entered the secure mode…
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How to recover from desktop freeze without losing running windows?

Sometimes VirtualBox causes random freeze of my Mint 16 Cinnamon Desktop 64bit. I am not able to pinpoint what is actually wrong and even where to fill the bug report. But the life goes on and I need some means of re-initializing the windowing…
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Arch linux randomly freezes after updating to kernel 5.10

last three days I am experiencing random freezes. If i am looking on youtube when this happens Audio keeps playing but screen is froze and keyboard or cursor do not do anything. I trying to look in sudo journalctl and this is what I found: led 04…
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How do I figure out what's freezing up my machine?

I am running Arch on this machine: 3.40GHz i7 hexacore (4930K) 16GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM 2xSamsung 840 EVO SSDs in Raid0 (using BTRFS raid) When I run VMware on my Arch with a few VMs (2 or 3), giving them about 2-4 cores each, and 2GB RAM each, my…
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