Re: Lockups
On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 02:49:29PM +0000, tg30 wrote:
> I am new to this list
> I am experiencing system lockups when using firefox and chromium browsers. When the system freezes I can only recover by rebooting and reloading the browsers
>
> How can I fix this problem?
>
> Is there any way to escape the lockup other than rebooting?
Try pressing: Ctrl-Alt-F1 -- that should show you a login prompt. Login and run
some diagnostics.
You can even press Ctrl-Alt-F1 before you run firefox, start some diagnostics
then return to graphical mode with Ctrl-Alt-F7. Then when the system locks up
press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to see the diagnostics running.
This will not work if the system is truely borked, but often it is not but you
cannot get to run a new command.
Another way of doing this is to ssh into the machine from elsewhere and run
diagnostics from there.
What diagnostics ... I would start with the top (or atop) programs.
> Tom George
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