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crash in Ubuntu GNU/Linux (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

image description:
a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That's not a blue screen, that's a boo screen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I literary had this problem today!!! What I did to fix, and I'm not sure which one of these it is, but I ran all of these and I got it to work again

sudo apt install --fix-broken

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt install --reinstall gnome

sudo apt install --reinstall xorg

sudo apt install --fix-missing

sudo apt autoremove

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Doesn't it show an error code?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Failed to allocate 17.3 TiB of memory

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Who uses ram anyway. Go buy yourself an HDD of 12TB of swap partition

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you get it to actually swap? I tried changing swapiness but it still hardly touches swap but maxes out ram and freezes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

To be frank, I don't actually know. I've had one or two times where my ram was maxed out because I used too many VMs but I barely remember

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cloud is the future. Mount Google Drive as your swap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Oh shit guys we just downloaded more RAM

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

What if they have more than one pc? Are they supposed to buy a harddrive for each?

Get yourself a NAS and use that for swap, much easier to share between devices!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The cool part is, the kernel and most of the user space is still running fine, so there's no restart required (although I would anyway), it's just gnome is having issues.

I've had dodgy hardware cause a kernel panic, which is much more equivalent to a Windows BSOD.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I made it work too much. i'm running 23.10(non-LTS), hadn't shut it down for weeks, and was hoarding close to 200 tabs. furthermore, I had 3-4 electron-based applications open.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not a problem. Especially because modern tabs hibernate. Linux can go forever without restarting, to the point where there are multiple services cropping up that let you upgrade your kernel while it's running, so you never have to reboot (mostly, in some edge cases it's still recommended to reboot).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah but like... Swap. And stuff.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago

You've been gnomed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My very first experience with installing Ubuntu was a complete failure because I just got constant kernal panics. This was 2007ish trying to install Ubuntu on a bondi blue iMac using CD I had ordered from Canonical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what do you use now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm still on windows on my dekstop, I have a handful of boxes running various forms of Linux but I'm mainly just here for the memes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Don't let the differences divide us, let's unite under the memes!

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