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RusticBard

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Registered: 2025-06-21

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Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

Operating system : Arch linux
Installed via : Archinstall

Desktop environment : Gnome

HW :
- (Asus zenbook 14 OLED UX3405CA)
- intel core ultra 7 255H
- 1 TB NVMe SSD
- 32 GB RAM

Behaviour :
Whenever I start up my system and start and run an app (noticed with firefox, gnome-console, nautilus, gnome-control-center) they tend to freeze and become totally unresponsive and takes 5-10 seconds to be responsive or sometimes they just dont and after closing and starting again they start like normal

I have looked into the gnome logs app and saw this log in the applications tab ... I have rebooted since so can't seem to find any other entries

`app-gnome-firefox-8482.scope: Consumed 2min 59.135s CPU time, 2G memory peak.`

I am not sure where to start looking since I am new so please help me out ><

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

Whenever I start up my system and start and run an app … after closing and starting again they start like normal

So this is only a problem during some interval right after the boot?
Or do those processes also randomly misbehave on starting somewhen later the day (but restarting them always "fixes" it)?

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RusticBard

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Registered: 2025-06-21

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Re: Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

I have had the apps freeze even well after the boot. Usually happens right after launching the apps ... once it has been used they behave mostly normally. Firefox has been a heavy resource drainer for sure tho

RusticBard

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Registered: 2025-06-21

Posts: 5

Re: Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

Whenever I start up my system and start and run an app … after closing and starting again they start like normal

So this is only a problem during some interval right after the boot?
Or do those processes also randomly misbehave on starting somewhen later the day (but restarting them always "fixes" it)?

I am able to find these instances by doing

journalctl | grep "memory peak"

they even show some instances where I didn't notice maybe because it got fixed sooner

also check the above reply ... sorry I am new to the forum so kinda flimsy

Last edited by RusticBard (2025-06-21 14:53:47)

RusticBard

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Registered: 2025-06-21

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Re: Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

Was able to fix the issue by switching to `linux-lts` kernel !!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Some apps seem to freeze after they are started

If this is a kernel bug you want to figure what it actually is - there'll probably show up some errors/warnings in the journal.

sudo journalctl -b -3

will get to the third to last boots journal
If you want to post that, please use sth. like

sudo journalctl -b -3 | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and do not copypaste it out of the pager.

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