I'm posting this using Firefox, logged in as root, because something's up with my account. It started last night, after I'd put the laptop down for the night. I tried to access it with my file manager on my phone, but couldn't; ditto for KDE Connect. So I got up and looked at it--it had locked up and nothing brought it back to life, so I hard-rebooted it. Okay, a fluke, I thought.
Nope. In the past hour, I've had three frozen-like-Antarctica lockups!
Nothing worked but hard rebooting.
Each time, I was running the same four apps: Konsole, Dolphin, and SeaMonkey's browser and e-mail client. I was on my usual sites in SM's tabs.
I tailed my .xsession-errors file(s) and saw some things that looked peculiar to me, but I really didn't know what I was looking for.
I don't expect anyone to remember, given the copious amount of posting I did about problems with my new laptop, but at one point this was happening before, too. But that was during the time when everything that could go wrong did. Since then, it's been running as smooth as Silk Almondmilk! Since the problem isn't happening while logged in as a different user, I'm assuming there's something sketchy in my account--but I don't know what, or where to look.
FWIW, both yesterday and today, Discover notified me that there were updates available; looking through them, they were definitely system-related items, not applications. I let them rip. The timing seems oddly coincidental.
Ideas? What can I check? If posting output from anything would help, let me know. I have not installed anything new in a couple of weeks, so the system updates are the only new things on it. It's a System76 Gazelle laptop, <2 months old.
Nope. In the past hour, I've had three frozen-like-Antarctica lockups!
Nothing worked but hard rebooting.Each time, I was running the same four apps: Konsole, Dolphin, and SeaMonkey's browser and e-mail client. I was on my usual sites in SM's tabs.
I tailed my .xsession-errors file(s) and saw some things that looked peculiar to me, but I really didn't know what I was looking for.
I don't expect anyone to remember, given the copious amount of posting I did about problems with my new laptop, but at one point this was happening before, too. But that was during the time when everything that could go wrong did. Since then, it's been running as smooth as Silk Almondmilk! Since the problem isn't happening while logged in as a different user, I'm assuming there's something sketchy in my account--but I don't know what, or where to look.
FWIW, both yesterday and today, Discover notified me that there were updates available; looking through them, they were definitely system-related items, not applications. I let them rip. The timing seems oddly coincidental.
Ideas? What can I check? If posting output from anything would help, let me know. I have not installed anything new in a couple of weeks, so the system updates are the only new things on it. It's a System76 Gazelle laptop, <2 months old.
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