What to do when Ubuntu randomly freezes?
With it, however, people with an older hardware had some hard time— old Nvidia users had to disable Nouveau drivers, and blacklist them, then download the latest Nvidia drivers and hopefully get the graphical interface running through them. This did not bother the average user much, since Linux is all about the “do it yourself” thing.
Are there any problems with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
Ubuntu 18.04 freezes from time to time. A lot of people mentioned this problem on Stack Exchange and the Ubuntu forums, but not many of them managed to solve this ridiculous problem.
How to fix Ubuntu 18.04 freeze after boot?
Start the computer. After the bios keep pressing ‘ E ’ or ‘ ESC ’ to initiate grub. 3. Find the line that starts with ‘ linux ’ and remove ‘ quite splash ’ and type ‘ nomodeset ’ at the end of the line. 4. Press ‘F10’ and boot. The screen resolution should be really bad as we just disabled all graphic drivers. The good news — freeze is now gone.
Why does Ubuntu freeze after Nvidia card?
Should be noted that it is funny that driver used during the installation works absolutely fine, but one that you will use after installation is done — will keep you crashing. Start the computer. After the bios keep pressing ‘ E ’ or ‘ ESC ’ to initiate grub.
Why does Ubuntu freeze when copying large files?
I have just had exactly the same problem (in 2019), on ubuntu 19.10, while copying large number of files from USB disk to the SATA disk. Both filesystems are ext4. When I turned off the swap, the problem disappeared.
What are the problems with Ubuntu 19.10?
System: Ubuntu 19.10, i7, 8GB Ram, SSD. in Ubuntu 19.10 this problem happens due to problem with swap management . Tinkering with dirty_background broke my nautilus file explorer . Along with freezing when copying large files , i have encountered several performance issues due to bad swap management in 19.10 .
Is there an issue with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
I upgraded my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 LTS few months back (hoping to resolve the issue) and gladly it worked great. Have experienced none freezing after upgrade. I am writing this after about 2-3 months of usage after upgrade. During these 2-3 months I have hardly shutdown my laptop for 3-4 times (As long as I remembered).
Why does my computer freeze when I open the terminal?
The system is completely unresponsive, only a force shutdown works at this point. Interestingly, i can’t correlate this freeze with any specific program or application, as the system hangs sometimes even while doing the simplest operations like opening the Terminal, or the Unity search.
Why does my computer freeze when I use swap memory?
This problem was not solved and it has nothing to do with swap memory, though allocating swap memory apparently fixed another type of freeze where continuous hard disk access occurs during the freeze and where it is possible to kill the latest process forcefully (by typing alt+sysrq+F from keyboard) to recover from the freeze.