mint 13 maya cinnamon freezes on internet

graybeard19 · 11-15-2013, 07:49 AM

This has just started within the past few days. When I browse online my pc will freeze up when online. cannot get it to unlock or whatever. Have to push button on pc to hard dump, or basically turn off pc. I know, this is wrong but its the only thing I can get to work. Have tried pushing "MENU" button to restart, cant do it.
ALSO I have noticed that after this happens and it does restart (REALLY REALLY SLOW) it will NOT HAVE THE LIL ICONS OR ANYTHING ELSE ON BOTTOM OF PAGE....NO MENU, FIREFOX OR MY OTHER ONES EITHER....AFTER TURNING PC ON AND OFF A FEW MORE TIMES THIS RETURNS.....no idea what is going on.
I am one of those folks who if I find something of interest online and I want to return to the site will bookmark the page, I have probably something like 60 or more of them now. IS THIS SLOWING INTERNET DOWN?
throw me a bone folks....what am I doing to goof things up? When installed this was so fast online, and now it will lock up alot....at a loss to understand what is going on...
OH.....I have place my internet browsing on PRIVATE (go to tools and check the app for that) so much google searching is now snooped on by google and the govt that I did not want to share my online searches with anyone,,,should be a private matter...any help appreciated THANKS LINUX COMMUNTIY....YOU FOLKS ARE THE BEST!

tyko · 11-20-2013, 09:11 AM

My Cinnamon used to freeze because of a bug which makes Cinnamon's file manager Nemo to keep increasing memory usage. You can check if your RAM is getting full.

Having many bookmarks will not slow internet. You r facing 2 problems? -System freeze and slow internet?

Opening many tabs in a web-browser can freeze your system if you don't have enough RAM and swap is turned off or is less. You can check this through a system monitor.

rokytnji · 11-20-2013, 09:41 AM

Htop, top, or System Monitor in System Tools should give you a idea maybe on why the freezes. Look at cpu usage and ram usage stats.

My install never freezes but that statement does not mean beans to you. Example of top from my Mint install.

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harry@biker ~ $ top

top - 10:40:56 up  2:37,  2 users,  load average: 0.37, 0.17, 0.25
Tasks: 177 total,   2 running, 175 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  2.2 us,  1.0 sy,  0.0 ni, 96.8 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   3981092 total,  2510216 used,  1470876 free,   102320 buffers
KiB Swap:  4094972 total,        0 used,  4094972 free,  1446660 cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
 1350 root      20   0  146m  26m 9.9m S   2.7  0.7   6:41.89 Xorg              
 2187 harry     20   0 1295m 310m  48m S   2.7  8.0  20:42.80 firefox           
 4058 harry     20   0  512m  15m  10m S   1.0  0.4   0:00.25 mate-terminal     
 1879 harry     20   0  397m  13m 9880 S   0.7  0.3   0:16.61 mate_netspeed_a   
 1938 harry     20   0  453m 4500 2872 S   0.3  0.1   0:04.37 conky             
    1 root      20   0 24448 2392 1340 S   0.0  0.1   0:00.59 init              
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd          
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:01.48 ksoftirqd/0       
    6 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.01 migration/0       
    7 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.12 watchdog/0        
    8 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/1       
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:01.35 ksoftirqd/1       
   11 root      rt   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.05 watchdog/1        
   12 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset            
   13 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper

SVGuss · 02-06-2014, 09:17 AM

Hi,
I have Linux Mint Cinnamon (Petra), really like it.
But I had it freeze a couple of times today, no mouse no keyboard working, the only option is to force power off. And if I had a sound playing, it will kinda repeat itself, stutter like a vinyl disk.
Is there any way I could get some log file after such a forced power off? I'd like to post it here, maybe someone can tell what went wrong. So please tell me the command or whatever. I googled and tried this particular command below, maybe there's comething else I could do?
Does this tell anything? I can only see something about the usb flash drive, but I don't think the freeze is due to it. What is with the Avahi thing?
Any help greatly appreciated.

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sergei@sergei-JW2 ~ $ tail -f /var/log/syslog 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 udisksd[1885]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 udisksd[1885]: Cleaning up mount point /media/sergei/SANDISK1 (device 8:17 is not mounted) 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 NetworkManager[761]: <info> (wlan0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed. 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 NetworkManager[761]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled... 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 NetworkManager[761]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started... 
Feb  7 01:16:25 sergei-JW2 NetworkManager[761]: <info> Activation (wlan0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete. 
Feb  7 01:16:26 sergei-JW2 kernel: [   37.684551] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck. 
Feb  7 01:16:26 sergei-JW2 udisksd[1885]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/sergei/SANDISK1 on behalf of uid 1000 
Feb  7 01:16:32 sergei-JW2 dbus[649]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out 
Feb  7 01:17:01 sergei-JW2 CRON[2145]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)