Questions tagged [crash]
Questions related to crashes of system or applications.
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Ubuntu 16.04 hangs on shutdown/restart
My Ubuntu 16.04 hangs on shutdown/restart requiring me to press and hold the power key to turn the machine off... I don't know how to report this as a bug and what commands to run to show the ...
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GUI/Unity crashing in 16.04 LTS after updates 2018-01-04, compiz segfaults
The latest updates (4/1/2018) make my laptop constantly crash the GUI/Unity:
(Intel Pentium su4100 processor)
syslog:
Jan 5 11:38:53 1810 kernel: [ 1850.327738] compiz[11911]: segfault at 0 ip ...
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How to set the RESUME variable to override these issues?
I have an Ubuntu 18.10 dual boot with Windows 10. I think that because of the error below my Ubuntu crashes/hangs a lot lately at the time of reboot/startup.
$ sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade
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chrome crashing too often in Ubuntu 14.04
Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04, Chrome (google-chrome-stable) crashes a lot more often than before.
I do keep several tabs open (>20), but they are all light (no multimedia) and have never ...
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What causes Pinta to crash instantly when I begin image selection?
I make a selection of a part of an image because I want to crop it, and Pinta immediately crashes. I removed Pinta with purge and reinstalled, but the problem persists.
The error message is:
Pinta....
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How to copy/paste from "Sorry, the application XXX has stopped unexpectedly"
An app just crashed and I want to copy the error message and paste it into a search engine to hopefully find a solution.
Unfortunately the error dialog does not allow me to copy/paste anything:
In ...
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Ubuntu Software (Software Center) Crash - Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu Software instantly crashes as I try to open it.
Tried to access from terminal and gives the following error:
(ubuntu-software:5523): Gs-WARNING **: failed to open plugin /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/...
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Apps crash randomly on newly installed ubuntu 22.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my laptop with 8GB ram (no dual boot, ext4 + 20GB linux swap);
Installed 2 gnome shell extensions (Dash to panel, Workspace Matrix);
My working environment is just ...
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Firefox is freezing Ubuntu, how should I go about debugging it?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and Firefox freezes my system about once a day. I know it is Firefox because my system works fine with Chrome. The same freezes occurred when running Firefox from live USB ...
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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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Netbeans does not start on fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installation
After fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installation and afterwards a netbeans installation, netbeans does not start. netbeans was installed with
sudo apt install netbeans
some other java programms (at least ...
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Google Earth crashes when opened
I recently downloaded the Google Earth .deb file for 64-bit from here. And I installed it with:
sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb
And I of course also installed all of the other ...
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Diagnosing and fixing random Ubuntu crashes without SysReq?
I have read this question and tried to follow the selected answer's advice. I have also read this question but the second question I believe is unrelated to my issue. (But I'm not sure.)
When Ubuntu (...
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Ubuntu randomly, suddenly logs out my user session back to login
Since the last couple days, I'm suffering a killer bug on my Ubuntu 18.04 that never had before.
I'm working on my desktop session, and suddenly, randomly, the screen turns black and then the login ...
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Ubuntu 15.10 randomly crashing back to login screen
fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 here.
Everything works fine, but I'm getting random crashes back to the login screen.
I pasted my syslog here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/12989589/
Edit: Confirmed bug on ...
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Viber executable crashes on Ubuntu 20.10 / 21.04
I have been using Viber for Desktop (the official .deb package downloaded from https://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb ) for at least 4 normal Ubuntu versions (18.10 through 20.04) ...
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Zoom client crashes on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
a quick help. I just installed Ubuntu Studio 22.04 and for some strange reason Zoom client crashes on start. Not sure if it's just me or if this is a common problem across. I installed zoom client ...
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Black screen in Ubuntu in Virtual Box
Using VirtualBox 6.0. Host Windows 10 Pro, VM: Linux Ubuntu 64 18.04.2.
I’m quite a beginner with Linux and haven’t used Virtual Box for years.
I was initially trying to set the resolution for my VM, ...
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How can I tell why 20.04 is crashing?
For the past week or so, Ubuntu 20.04 randomly freezes (3 or 4 times a day) on my Dell XPS Developer Edition laptop. All I can do is hold down the power button to manually turn off the machine and ...
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What is the equivalent of blue screen of death in linux?
Will the computer just freeze or will it display a error message like BSoD?
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Ignore specific program's crashes in apport
If you have to use a program that crashes regularly some people tend to uninstall apport (which you should not).
So how could we exclude a program from apport's notifications?
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Please remove installation media and close tray message inside Virtual Box
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 13.10 inside a virtual machine running in Windows 7. I've been getting this message every time after the installer asks for a restart. What should I do?
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VLC crashes when opening any file, Ubuntu 20.04
My VLC player crashes every time I'm trying to open any video file. Removing/purging vlc, and reinstalling it does not change anything.
I recently upgraded my distro to 20.04 from 19.10. I never had ...
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Chromium crashes as soon as I log in [duplicate]
Just today, without me doing any special kind of update or plugin that I am aware of, the Chromium browser closes instantly after startup. When trying to start it in the terminal, I get this message:
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Unity crash in Ubuntu 14.04
After logging in to my account, I see no panels or anything else, only the background. I cannot even start a terminal with ctrl+alt+t. The only thing the system responds to is ctrl+alt+delete which ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Jan 3 2018 update causing screen/access issues [duplicate]
Yesterday (Jan. 3, 2018), I installed an OS update (Ubuntu 16.04), using the Software Center. My system isn't working correctly now. When my mouse rolls over the Launch bar, it disappears, then any ...
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Gnome on Ubuntu 18.04 is crashing after logging in
After logging in into Ubuntu I'm able to see my desktop for about 1-2 seconds, and then I'm automatically logged out. Here is a part of /var/log/syslog, that probably contains the solution for this ...
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chromium core dumped - libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
Until yesterday, I was using chromium just fine in my Ubuntu 20.10. I don't remember whether it started after I made an upgrade on apt-get, or after a snap refresh, but I clicked Chromium icon again ...
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Cannot start FileZilla
I cannot start FileZilla. When I do it, nothing happen. I tried uninstalling and then reinstalling it, but no help. I am using Ubuntu 16.04.
If I start it from the command line, I see the following:
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/var/crash/ - should I send it?
I randomly receive a message from crash reporter roughly once a week. What should I do with it? I feel it is a non-essential bug and my report will simply pollute the bug tracking system. I can delete ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 hangs when using Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird [duplicate]
System Info:
Model Name: Lenovo ThinkPad 11e
RAM: 4G
Product Page: http://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/ThinkPad_11e?M=20D90020US
Graphics and Driver Info:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ...
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Ubuntu 17.04 Randomly Freezes
Today I upgraded from Ubuntu 16 to 17. Everything worked fine until I left my computer on for about 2-3 hours. Then it crashed, except there were no error screen or message. Just the last image that ...
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Ubuntu crash - how to read log files
A few days ago the laptop decided to close without no relevant reason. From this day on, it randomly crashes without explanation.
This is what I (correctly?) filtered from the log files on the last ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 logs out unexpectedly or crashes
This problem is going on for several months.
When you try to run a GUI program it suddenly exits the session gets back to the login screen where I get this notification (bubble for several seconds) ...
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LibreOffice writer Crashes on Start
I have been using LibreOffice writer without any trouble until today. With no warning it simply refuses to open any documents with writer. All other suites are working fine, I can open calc fine, but ...
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skypeforlinux crashes the keyboard
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.0.4 and after that skypeforlinux in several ways. I can use Skype to type messages, everything its OK, but when I make a call it crashes the keyboard. After that, I can'...
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Battle.net keeps crashing on Ubuntu 14.04 [closed]
I can't seem to install anything from Battle.net because every time I start up the application it crashes less than a minute after it opens. I'm using the newest Ubuntu release, and the latest Wine ...
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How to read or open .crash file from /var/crash
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and I am new in Ubuntu.
Crash file with name _usr_bin_gnome-shell.121.crash is getting generated inside /var/crash.
I read many posts that how to read/open .crash file ...
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Google Chrome frequently and randomly crashing?
Has anyone else had trouble with Chrome crashing randomly and frequently? Just now I was looking at the screen reading something and it just crashed. It didn't freeze or anything, just disappeared. I ...
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22.04 Jammy: Is there a kernel bug that causes VirtualBox to misbehave with 5.15.0-47-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 07:51:15 UTC 2022 x86_64
I just updated my kernel to 5.15.0-47-generic #51-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 07:51:15 UTC 2022 x86_64 and while in general the system seems to behave fine a VM running Windows on VirtualBox 6.1.34-dfsg-3~...
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How do you investigate a system crash when there are no records/logs?
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How does one actually investigates a system crash when the logs don't show anything?
Secondly, how do I prepare for future crashes? Is it possible to have more aggressive/accurate logging? In ...
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Eclipse luna crashes on new project in Kubuntu 14.04
I'm having some trouble getting Eclipse Luna to work. I downloaded the tar.gz from their site and I downloaded the tar.gz for the Java JDK. I extracted everything and Eclipse opens properly, but when ...
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Chromium Crashes in Seconds [duplicate]
I changed nothing with any of my settings, extensions, etc. and Chromium decided to randomly start crashing right when I tried to reopen it after closing it. I get the following output:
aiman119@...
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Ubuntu desktop hangs occasionally during regular use
Ubuntu 16.04 has been hanging on me ~1x per day. This happens when I am in the middle of web browsing or using a desktop application, not when booting. When it does, the mouse pointer will still ...
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How can I copy the text of an unreportable error? [duplicate]
Occasionally I receive an error report from Ubuntu with the option to send in the details of the error. However, if the error was generated from a non-official package (local installation or PPA) I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS hard freezing while AFK
I am having an issue on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS where the computer will hard freeze with no detectable reason. This happens most frequently while I am away from the computer for extended periods of time (...
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How to back up my entire system with all components?
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 OS and I installed some components for example ROS, Cuda, folly, TensorRT etc. Now if I will change computer or my computer will crash, I will setup all components manually. ...
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DaVinci Resolve 15 doesn't start on Ubuntu 18.04
I have problem with DaVinci Resolve 15. After installation app doesn't start. I use makeresolvedeb_15.0b6 to make .deb package. Logs:
#TIME Sat Jul 21 12:15:20 2018 - Uptime 00:00:01 (hh:mm:ss)
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Ubuntu Keeps crashing after 24.04 update
I have Ubuntu installed along with windows dual booted on my Dell Latitude e6410. After the 24.04 update Ubuntu crashes a few minutes after booting. (screen freezes, mouse locks up, no HDD activity). ...
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[Kubuntu 14.04][Eclipse] ADT crashes at button OK from Project properties
Since i upgraded to kubuntu 14.04, my Eclipse crashes at different situations. Mostly i can "simulate" it when going to project properties and press ok. Then it always crashes.
My system:
DISTRIB_ID=...
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