Atom freezes everything

Question

I installed Atom to my PC (Ubuntu 16.4) and it keeps on freezing my entire computer.

I have it running on my laptop as well (also 16.4 also x64) but no problems.

But running it on my PC it keeps on freezing the screen. even in safe mode. no mouse action and no keyboard action possible. (audio is still running for a while but stops as well after a few minutes.)

I don't know whats causing it and I don't know how to look those errors up.

If someone needs more hardware information please tell me the command to look it up as well.

To me it looks like a graphics issue. Please, have a look at journalctl, are there any errors for running atom? — Hi-Angel, Jul 23 '18 at 17:54
Okay, well, just run journalctl -f in terminal, and then atom alongside, and tell what you see (if anything) appearing in the journalctl's output. — Hi-Angel, Jul 23 '18 at 19:33
@Hi-Angel you where right. I installed new graphics drivers and it appears to be solved. Post this as you answer and I will mark it. — Phillip, Jul 23 '18 at 20:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '18 at 22:10

That description, specifically reproducible freezes for opening a graphical app (assuming it doesn't plain take away all available memory) looks very like graphics driver choking up on GPU lockups or something similar. To be sure you can look at journalctl.

If it's the case, try installing latest mesa, and latest kernel, and see if that helps.

Atom freezes everything

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