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Questions tagged [crash]

Questions related to crashes of system or applications.

A crash (or system crash) is an event in which a computer or a program (such as a software application or an operating system) ceases to function properly, often exiting after encountering errors. The program responsible may appear to freeze or hang until a crash reporting service documents details of the crash. If the program is a critical part of the operating system kernel, the entire computer may crash, often resulting in a fatal system error.

More about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(computing)

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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 necessary hardware/sys log info? Any help would be hugely…
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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 00007f6c7baf0c16 sp 00007ffd5ec71c60 error 4 in…
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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 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency…
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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 caused any problems in the past. The processor and…
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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.exe assert failure: Error in usr/bin/mono: double…
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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 particular the stack trace, which is very long.…
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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), my computer randomly freezes completely and this…
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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 versions of Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10. When frozen,…
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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/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so:…
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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 vs code, webpack dev server, and chrome; During…
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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 Eclipse) do not start too. when starting netbeans from…
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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 necessary dependencies with: sudo apt-get install…
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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, but got into even worst problems. So, trying to…
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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 screen appears. I have to login again, and a blank…
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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 (Or possibly just Unity) crashes everything stops…
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