I have been using exclusively ( and enjoying MX ) for a month now, but 2 or 3 times it has freezed up and left me no alternative but to press the power-button. The latest event was tonight. I was in Nomacs paging through photos in my dropbox folder when it suddenly froze. At the same time in the background I had firefox ( only a few tabs, no video playing ),thunderbird, and package installer window up on the desktop.
have I any options in that situation? I cant kill anything its all frozen
System: Host: mx Kernel: 4.15.0-1-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3
Distro: MX-17.1_x64 Horizon March 14, 2018
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E4310 v: 0001 serial: <root required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0D8H24 v: A00 serial: <root required> BIOS: Dell v: A06
date: 02/15/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.5 Wh condition: 49.4/48.8 Wh (101%)
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5 M 560 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
L2 cache: 3072 KiB
Speed: 1941 MHz min/max: 1199/2667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1332 2: 1318 3: 1247
4: 1357
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile v: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
Audio: Card-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
Card-2: Logitech Webcam C270 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-1-amd64
Network: Card-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 5c:26:0a:4a:f6:f1
Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 18:3d:a2:28:b5:28
Drives: HDD Total Size: 223.57 GiB used: 23.75 GiB (10.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDA240G size: 223.57 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 108.98 GiB used: 23.75 GiB (21.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 48.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3084
Repos: Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch/ stretch main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-Horizon.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates non-free contrib main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list
1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode/ stable main
Info: Processes: 240 Uptime: 5m Memory: 3.66 GiB used: 1.72 GiB (47.1%) Shell: init
inxi: 3.0.10
Last edited by wellsey on Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
"There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that."
Hitting the power button is not a good, but I guess you didn't know there are alternatives. I suggest you install and configure xkill and use it to unfreeze your computer.
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Mauser wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:40 pm
Hitting the power button is not a good, but I guess you didn't know there are alternatives. I suggest you install and configure xkill and use it to unfreeze your computer.
that's a good idea. xkill is pre-installed. just hit ctrl+alt+esc, the cursor should change to an X and you can kill a window.
Mauser wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:40 pm
Hitting the power button is not a good, but I guess you didn't know there are alternatives. I suggest you install and configure xkill and use it to unfreeze your computer.
that's a good idea. xkill is pre-installed. just hit ctrl+alt+esc, the cursor should change to an X and you can kill a window.
As long as it is not a complete freeze, no keyboard input, which can happen. Sometimes hitting the power button is the only choice. Usually it does not cause a problem.
Mauser wrote: ↑Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:40 pm
Hitting the power button is not a good, but I guess you didn't know there are alternatives. I suggest you install and configure xkill and use it to unfreeze your computer.
that's a good idea. xkill is pre-installed. just hit ctrl+alt+esc, the cursor should change to an X and you can kill a window.
As long as it is not a complete freeze, no keyboard input, which can happen. Sometimes hitting the power button is the only choice. Usually it does not cause a problem.
That's true. The last time I experience a freeze like that was with Windows 98se which those kind of freezes or any other kind of freezes for that matter were a common occurrence. I do say that Bill Gates picked a lovely shade of blue for the blue screen of death.
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Thanks all, you are right I did not know about the ctrl+alt+esc option, I think though, entire keyboard was locked up. I seem to remember that the last time it locked like this was also when I was going through photos, so I just checked to see whether nomacs launches multiple instances on repeated hitting the next button ( causing memory to fill ) .... it does n't. Could it be video driver problem?
"There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that."
spandey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:53 am
Do you have a SWAP partition enabled?
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chrispop99 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:25 am
Run MemTest86 from the GRUB menu
Yes, I installed with a swap partition 6GB if I remember correctly ( at work at moment), I don't remember doing anything to enable it, can I check? I will try memtest and the alternative imageviewer tonight
I have bad problems with smooth scrolling in firefox so I thought video driver might be a problem
"There's no limit to what he can do. He could destroy the Earth... If anything should happen to me you must go to Gort, you must say these words, 'Klaatu barada nikto', please repeat that."