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Editors crashing with certain characters, programs crashing, how to diagnoze?

Editors crashing with certain characters, programs crashing, how to diagnoze? I’m having strange problems with my PC and don’t know what to do. It all started with the fact that certain characters (Devanagari characters) could no longer be displayed in my Emacs. Whenever I opened a document containing these characters and then scrolled to the …

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How to stop android studio from crashing the whole computer?

How to stop android studio from crashing the whole computer? I installed android studio and it crashed several times. I installed an older version (Arctic fox) and it did the same. It never managed to install gradle. I installed gradle via the command line (using apt). Then android studio complained that the gradle libraries were …

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Arch Linux 6.7.2-arch1-1 sporadically crashes / reboots

Arch Linux 6.7.2-arch1-1 sporadically crashes / reboots I have recently built a new PC rig. At first everything seemed to work fine, but after a while, the system started crashing seemingly randomly. "Randomly" meaning that it sometimes happens when I’m AFK, and sometimes when I’m working on my computer, without clear reproducible action. Also, "crash" …

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Is it possible to restore data from a non-persistent DM snapshot after crash?

Is it possible to restore data from a non-persistent DM snapshot after crash? I often use non-persistent device mapper snapshots, an example table looks like this: 0 10485760 snapshot /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdc6 N 16 In case of a crash, I still have both /dev/sdc3 and /dev/sdc6 because disks are non-volatile. But is it possible to get …

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Seems that any JavaScript makes my debian laptop crash

Seems that any JavaScript makes my debian laptop crash I have a Dell, debian stable, laptop working with gnome environment. For several weeks Firefox crashed more and more often, resulting in mouse slows down during fews seconds, and then everything freezes, the laptop heats a lot, forcing me to hard reboot. I noticed that websites …

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Ubuntu Server on Laptop 22.04 becomes unresponsive when left alone

Ubuntu Server on Laptop 22.04 becomes unresponsive when left alone I have a 9th gen intel i9 Dell Precision laptop that I am running ubuntu server on. I changed the lid settings so I could keep the lid closed and SSH into the machine. I noticed that when I am actively using it, such as …

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WiFi randomly crashing every 15 seconds

WiFi randomly crashing every 15 seconds I just installed Ubuntu on my own 2 days ago. I noticed that my wifi randomly crashes every 15 seconds or so. I have no clue how to fix it whatsoever. Thank you in advance! EDIT: Thanks for viewing my question. Here’s the required info: I have tried restarting …

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Linux crashes randomly

Linux crashes randomly In my Linux operating systems, I always have a problem, that my computer or desktop environment(not sure) is crashing randomly. For example, I’m opening settings, then my screen turns into a terminal with blinking cursor, and after 2 seconds I’m back into Lock screen where I need to login. However, even if …

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Linux crashes after resume from suspend

Linux crashes after resume from suspend My Linux crashes after it wakes up from sleep mode, namely, it stops responding to any commands, at the moment I have Manjaro Linux, but there was a similar problem on Ubuntu. My laptop: Huawei Mate Book D16 RLEF-X with processor: Intel i5-12450H. I tried to change the value …

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Kernel 6.5.2 seems to have amdgpu crash on no-retry page fault

Kernel 6.5.2 seems to have amdgpu crash on no-retry page fault Before start: I replied to a thread on Arch Linux forum about similar issue (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=284076), since I’m on Arch. I’m asking here to get more help and check if anyone using other distributions is having the same issue. After upgrading the kernel to the …

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Gracefully Crashing System

Gracefully Crashing System I am completely at a loss for what to search for next. I recently switched from Windows 11 to Ubuntu. The reason why I switched is because I was having an issue on Windows 11 that made my system gracefully crash to the lock screen after "Stuttering" a bit. I couldn’t find …

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Ubuntu upgrade to 20.04, cannot uninstall prior version of gnumeric

Ubuntu upgrade to 20.04, cannot uninstall prior version of gnumeric I upgraded Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 a few days ago using Software Updater. After the upgrade, Gnumeric will not open my old gnumeric files. If I start Gnumeric then open a Gnumeric file, the hard drive lights a bit then it crashes. There are errors …

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"ubuntu-desktop" disappear on reboot (Ubuntu 22.04)

"ubuntu-desktop" disappear on reboot (Ubuntu 22.04) Situation now: every time I reboot, I’m having to reinstall "ubuntu-desktop" because its not available on startup. On boot, it goes to "tty1", if I try going to 7/8 it just shows a blinking underscore. Control Alt Del makes it reboot from there. The only weird thing is that …

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Unexpected high resources consumption from gnome-javascript

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, however this issue is consistent. I checked what’s using up all my resources and I got the following. Process …

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Fstab adding data=journal crashed my Linux' ext4 upon boot, how to fix?

Fstab adding data=journal crashed my Linux' ext4 upon boot, how to fix? I changed my /etc/fstab from: UUID=f1fc7345-be7a-4c6b-9559-fc6e2d445bfa / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=4966-E925 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 to this: UUID=f1fc7345-be7a-4c6b-9559-fc6e2d445bfa / ext4 data=journal,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=4966-E925 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1 Effectively adding data=journal, before errors=remount-ro option. The reasoning was this computer is …

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Some apps crash before opening on Xubuntu

Some apps crash before opening on Xubuntu For example, if I try to open a video with VLC, I can see it appear on the System monitor but it’s quickly listed with red and disappears. It could be RAM related. I have 4GB and it’s shown as 70% used. But I have a 4GB swap …

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Severe crashing / freezing / hanging issue on Ubuntu 23.04

Severe crashing / freezing / hanging issue on Ubuntu 23.04 I’ve been working on moving over to linux for the past 3 days and tried multiple distributions. All of them had this same problem I’m describing. Whenever I start up my laptop it flashes a few bios warnings before moving on. I can get into …

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Migrate Firefox profile to a new one

Migrate Firefox profile to a new one I reinstalled Firefox, because my profile was crashing. I backed up my ~/.mozilla folder to some other place, uninstalled firefox and installed it again. New firefox wasn’t crashing. So I copied one of my backup up old profile to new firefox, and that profile was crashing again. Now, …

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Retrieve an assertion failure from a .crash file

Retrieve an assertion failure from a .crash file Apport has recorded a crash of /usr/bin/gnome-shell on my system. I can unpack the .crash file that I found in /var/crash/ and I can take a look at the core dump with gdb, which gives me: (gdb) where #0 __pthread_kill_implementation (no_tid=0, signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at ./nptl/pthread_kill.c:44 #1 …

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