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Trvzn

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Registered: 2023-07-19

Posts: 17

Zoom (and sometimes other apps) freeze my desktop

Hello all. My desktop immediately freezes when I open some apps.
I can open Google Chrome or Chromium, but not both at the same time or the desktop will freeze. If I open Zoom, it freezes 100% of the time. By freezing I mean immediate freezing, cursor won't move, TTYs becomes inaccessible and I can only reboot by pressing the button.
This is the output of

journalctl -b-1

Maybe this is unrelated, but my

cat /etc/fstab

# /dev/nvme0n1p7
UUID=5dc19f68-0fc8-4eaa-ab21-92dc668f7eda	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p8
UUID=60aa1e5a-d947-4eee-a96b-c981d74a003f	/home     	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p5
UUID=5dc19f68-0fc8-4eaa-ab21-92dc668f7eda	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p6 LABEL=Linux\134x20Swap
UUID=e7e3115a-c763-4817-b20e-f33d97ec6f30	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0


# /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID=BB0B-7A60      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

... shows two / partitions, of which /dev/nvme0n1p7 and says /dev/nvme0n1p8 is my home partition, but

 df 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev
run             7.8G  1.5M  7.8G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5   75G   54G   18G  76% /
tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           7.8G  184K  7.8G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1  500M  100M  400M  21% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p7  147G  123G   17G  89% /home
tmpfs           1.6G   52K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000

...shows /dev/nvme0n1p7 is my /home partition.
This whole problem started happening when the bootloader was messed up by the laptop  turning off mid boot and my having to reinstall the bootloader, so that's why I mentioned it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Last edited by Trvzn (2023-07-19 14:12:54)

ewaller

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Re: Zoom (and sometimes other apps) freeze my desktop

A couple other issues with that fstab.   First, the UUID is mounted twice on '/' using different options.
Second, the comments indicate both /dev/nvme0n1p7 and /dev/nvme0n1p5 have the same UUID.  Is that an error in the comments? Or have you two partitions with the same UUID?  Yes, that is possible. But, p7 seems to be mounted at /home.

What is the output of lsblk -f   ?

However, this all seem like we are chasing the wrong thing.   What desktop environment / window manager are you using?

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Trvzn

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Registered: 2023-07-19

Posts: 17

Re: Zoom (and sometimes other apps) freeze my desktop

Thanks for replying, ewaller!

What is the output of lsblk -f   ?

NAME         FSTYPE FSVER LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1                                                                                   
├─nvme0n1p1  vfat   FAT32             BB0B-7A60                             399.1M    20% /boot
├─nvme0n1p2                                                                               
├─nvme0n1p3  ntfs         OS          E4AC9478AC944748                                    
├─nvme0n1p4  ntfs                     C660002A60002431                                    
├─nvme0n1p5  ext4   1.0               5dc19f68-0fc8-4eaa-ab21-92dc668f7eda   16.6G    73% /
├─nvme0n1p6  swap   1     Linux Swap  e7e3115a-c763-4817-b20e-f33d97ec6f30                [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p7  ext4   1.0               60aa1e5a-d947-4eee-a96b-c981d74a003f   16.6G    84% /home
├─nvme0n1p8  ntfs         WINRETOOLS  F29C6A459C6A0507                                    
├─nvme0n1p9  ntfs         Image       22D26A6DD26A455F                                    
└─nvme0n1p10 ntfs         DELLSUPPORT 62C4EF12C4EEE76F                                    

I'm using openbox on an openbox-session, no destop environment.

Trilby

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Re: Zoom (and sometimes other apps) freeze my desktop

It looks like you should remove line number 2-4 from your fstab (the first UUID, a blank line, and the incorrect comment line).

But 1) systemd is - for better or worse - likely ignoring that fstab, and 2) it's almost certainly unrelated to the freezing issue.  Given that zoom is a consistent / predictable cause of this freeze, it might be better to focus diagnostics there first.  Which zoom package are you using?  And how do you launch it?  Can you start it from a terminal and redirect *all* output to a file?  If so, does that file exist after the reboot (and if so what's in it)?:

# for example:
zoom & > ~/zoom.log

Last edited by Trilby (2023-07-19 17:39:36)

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Trvzn

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Registered: 2023-07-19

Posts: 17

Re: Zoom (and sometimes other apps) freeze my desktop

Thanks for the help, Tribly! I'm using this AUR package

aur/zoom 5.15.3-1 (+610 10.49) (Installed)
    Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service

I tried running it from the terminal using the command you suggested. Zoom freezes the desktop, as expected. The output file is created, but it's empty.

EDIT:

It looks like you should remove line number 2-4 from your fstab (the first UUID, a blank line, and the incorrect comment line).

Done, but to no avail as you suspected.

Last edited by Trvzn (2023-07-19 18:48:23)