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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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What is the equivalent of blue screen of death in linux?

Will the computer just freeze or will it display a error message like BSoD?
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Ubuntu 17.04 Randomly Freezes

Today I upgraded from Ubuntu 16 to 17. Everything worked fine until I left my computer on for about 2-3 hours. Then it crashed, except there were no error screen or message. Just the last image that happened before it crashed. The mouse won't…
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Ubuntu 22.04: Sudden reboot of the system, how can I solve this?

I've been experiencing for a while now some unwanted reboots for which the cause is not clear. At first when the computer was purchased, about a year ago, everything was stable. Checking the reboot log, the previous session is reported as running $…
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Ubuntu 16.04 randomly crashes under high cpu load

Since about one week my LapTop on Ubuntu 16.04 crashes at random moments when under high cpu load. That is either during Audio Conversion via TAudioConverter / Wine or Chess Analysis with Stockfish or Komodo in SCIDvsPC, so it is not…
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Ubuntu crashing and restarting forever

My system starts up and appears usable for maybe a minute or less before crashing and restarting. I was able to go to the text-instead-of-windows view and saw the following before it happened again: To make it a little weirder, this is a NUC…
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kdump-config show gives "Not ready to kdump" but memory was reserved

I'm trying to set up crash dumps in my Xen domU (pv). I've given the VM 3G memory, that should do. It has plenty of diskspace for / (no separate mounts for other directories). root@t-51:~# kdump-config show DUMP_MODE: kdump USE_KDUMP: …
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Ubuntu 15.04 Crashes while viewing media in a web browser

The system crashes usually when I am watching a youtube video or viewing a twitch stream. I haven't got any crash logs because the standard logs cant catch any information. and I ran into a problem with apport-retrace so I cant view the logs…
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Random Crash no logs found, weird symptoms

I am getting some random crashing. I am running a lenovo X1 (SSD) with Ubuntu 14.04. The symptom I get is my entire machine locks up and becomes unresponsive, cannot get into any tty terminal etc. Requires Hard boot. I see nothing in the /var/logs…
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System hangs every week or two

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and my system hangs about once every week or two. It crashed today and I saved my entire /var/log directory. What information should I provide to support resolving this crash issue? Is there any summary of what kinds of…
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Ubuntu 16.04 crash. How do I recover?

While I was doing my project which consists of OpenCV programming, everything crashed and I can not log into Ubuntu. It shows me the screen below. Even when I try the options given, it does not lead me back to my normal Ubuntu OS. Please help, I…
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Razer blade stealth crash

I have Ubuntu on a Razer Blade Stealth, I am experiencing a couple of daily crashes. What happens is that the screen turns to a shade of grey, and it looks like no input does anything, besides a long press of the power button. I tried looking into…
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Ubuntu freezes and can't recover

I had this problem since i switched to linux (ubuntu). I am using Ubuntu for more than half a year, and I allways had this problem. It doesnt appear very often, but it will appear at least every once a week. It happens randomly, when I open a…
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Ubuntu crashes - where can I look for the cause?

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 a few days ago after receiving my laptop from a major hardware repair. Unfortunately, it crashes often (a few times daily), and I cannot discern a pattern as to what might be the cause. The first few times it…
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When I log in there is nothing except the default wallpaper, is there anything I can do?

Last night I was browsing the internet while I had VLC and a text document open, suddenly the screen jumped to VLC with the text document in front of it. The video was playable and the document editable but the I couldn't move the document or do…
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Kernel Panic Error Message

Got a crash message while restarting. Get same message after reboot: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) CPU 1 PID 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-34-generic #60-Ubuntu Hardware name: gigabyte…
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