Hi, I have just migrated to ElementaryOS from Windows 10. It's essentially got everything I need and I'm not tempted to hoard a lot of useless stuff on it. I loved it. Until it freezes randomly. I did read other posts and other sites about ctrl+alt+f1 and killall in case everything freezes. But really, elementaryOS freezes even when I have not added new apps outside what the OS has provided. It freezes 8 out of 10 times. I only get lucky when it doesn't. When I try to use the ctrl alt f1 terminal, it gets nowhere. It freezes so I just have to do a hard reboot. Any suggestions on how I can improve my ElementaryOS experience? Also what is your recommendation when it starts to freeze? What should I do? == Update == My laptop is Aspire E-5-411-c3k3 and was originally a Windows 8 model. Intel Celeron Quad Core Processor n2940 2GB ddr3 L memory 500gb HDD dedicated to elementary OS (no other OS on boot)
Are you using your proprietary drivers? https://elementaryforums.com/index....-driver-in-elementaryos-the-official-way.206/
Worth trying: Update the kernel to 4.8.x Without some sort of log telling us what's crashing or freezing, it's not obvious that this will help the OP, but I am running elementary OS (Loki) on an old gateway laptop (dual-core 1.8ghz, 2gb RAM) and it froze up badly until I updated the kernel to 4.8 Gala was thrashing cores as soon as I would try to enter settings, or certain other applications. I am currently running the 4.8.7 kernel, and am able to enjoy Elementary OS, hope this helps someone. #Loki
You're on the very low end of RAM specs. While they say elementary can run on lower end machines, 2GB is not much RAM by many standards. If I was you I'd try bumping up to at least 4GB if you can. That will give the OS a lot more room and could fix your freezing issues.
Hello, I have an old computer and Elementary OS is working fine and not freezing. Processor: Dual-Core Intel® Celeron® CPU E3400 @ 2.60GHz Memory: 2 Gb Video Chipset: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
I have another laptop similar to yours that I rarely use, but I installed eOS on it thinking it might run well and bring new life to the machine. But eOS runs so slow on it.
I don't think that swap is the cause of this problem, maybe it's hardware related, but there is not enough information available to find anything usefull. Make the journal persistent: sudo mkdir -p /var/log/journal sudo chmod 477 /var/log/journal If the system freezes: notice the time, let's say it's 12:00 then reboot the computer journalctl --since=12:00 > /tmp/logfile.txt Look into /tmp/logfile.txt : is there anything special ?
Hi, Did you try Kernel 4.12.2 released as on 15-July-2017..? I had tried, it booted up great. It was fast and fluid. But it broke up my WiFi with the status network UNCLAIMED. So i uninstalled 4.12.2 and reverted to your suggestion 4.8.7 that has WiFi functional.
Hi VJ, the newest one that I have tried is 4.12.0, it works okay. I try to avoid the bleeding edge ones, because my hardware is a little bit old (I had touchpad problems with drivers on Windows), I found a great tool for Kernel updating, it's called Ukuu (Ubuntu kernel update system) Code (Text): $ sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ukuu After install. You may need to run sudo ukuu-gtk to starts it. But sometimes you can find it on applications menu ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hello everyone, I just made this post in an effort to address these issues. https://elementaryforums.com/index....ezing-frequently-requiring-a-hard-reset.2385/
I was having quick hangups when doing simple tasks like opening a new tab in chrome or terminal, or opening a video. Weirdly, removing wingpanel-indicator-power resolved the issue. sudo apt-get remove wingpanel-indicator-power
