Recently i have run into a series of desktop freezing on Elive 3.8.1 Characteristics i have observed include Occurs in both E16 and E23 2.Always when i am using firefox 71 , initially system becomes sluggish 3.Involves multiple tabs atleast 10 and above with coupled with a flash interactive tab …

Maybe? [image] How to check and verify that your computer doesn't have hardware problems Elive There's mainly 3 reasons on which the computer can fail: CPU: the brain of the computer, should compute correctly and enough cooled RAM Memory: sometimes has badbl…

[image] Using Markdown on the Elive Forum Optionally you can login there in F1 as the user you want to and start an alternative desktop session running: [image] IamElive: Any suggestions that could help me get back the system without hard shut down? I usually just kill my user. If you l…

[image] stoppy98: I usually just kill my user. Im surprised nothing's corrupt on your end

[image] TheTechRobo: Im surprised nothing's corrupt on your end That's because @stoppy98 uses reiserfs (3) fielsystem :slight_smile: No joke, ext* filesystem can corrupt and lose data in forced shutdowns, reiserfs never I just wrote this small howto: How to force-shutdown your computer avo…

Unfortunately, I now have a similar problem! The striped bars are back...even on latest kernel 5.*. (Or was it 4.19?) Even on 3.8.8 64bit :frowning:

[image] TheTechRobo: The striped bars are back...even on latest kernel 5.*. (Or was it 4.19?) Can you include a screenshot? (from the phone you probably need to do that, you can install Discourse in your phone to use the forums from it :slight_smile: ) - just to make sure is the same bars tha…

[image] Thanatermesis: Can you include a screenshot? (from the phone you probably need to do that, you can install Discourse in your phone to use the forums from it :slight_smile: ) - just to make sure is the same bars that other people had It is this: (it happens less often with 4.19 but sti…

[image] TheTechRobo: Dell Latitude D531 the Graphics is ATI Radeon X1270 I had that kind of problems with my older Dell laptop that has a Radeon graphics when the driver was not correct. It was not the same Graphics, but maybe that the Radeon graphics is problematic???

[image] gtech: It was not the same Graphics, but maybe that the Radeon graphics is problematic??? Maybe... It's really weird though right? Has anyone else seen this behaviour?

[image] TheTechRobo: Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Well not on Elive but in the old days when we had to configure our graphics ourselves I did see similar screens. Quite often the CRT monitors would literally even scream a high pitched tone too. I'm actually surprised they never explo…

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Frozen system... Any suggestions to similar to Ctrl-alt-del to escape the quicksand on 3.8.1?

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