small non-disruptive crash?

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small non-disruptive crash?

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I experienced my first problem with Cinnamon as it crashed and went into fallback mode and asked if I wanted to restart. However it resulted in no practical disruption--it didn't even interrupt my Skype call. The programmes I was using were Chrome and Thunderbird, besides Skype. How can I avoid that small problem (just in case it doesn't always recover so seamlessly every time)?

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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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A problem needs to exist before troubleshooting principles can be applied to it, or it needs to be reproducible. If there is no problem right now then it's going to be next to impossible to diagnose. Since there is currently no problem to diagnose, nobody can tell you how to avoid it in the future.

If it happens again, you can take note of what you were doing at the time. You might also see what executing dmesg in a terminal tells you, and you can inspect your logs in /var/log/.
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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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Ok thanks my bad, I will try to note down more detail when it happens again.

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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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Hold on, the error happened again I I've copied the system log activity around the time. Does it mean anything? The programmes I had running were Chrome, Skype, Thunderbird and Libreoffice Writer.

Dec 17 14:35:43 tenzan-Dell-DM061 kernel: [15619.920522] show_signal_msg: 9 callbacks suppressed
Dec 17 14:35:43 tenzan-Dell-DM061 kernel: [15619.920527] cinnamon[2807]: segfault at 7fed926fffe8 ip 00007feddda802e5 sp 00007ffefce5c750 error 4 in libcjs.so.0.0.0[7feddda57000+c1000]
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,364 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/banshee.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,379 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/gcalctool.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,386 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/mate-terminal.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,403 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/mate-volume-control.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,409 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/xfce4-mixer.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,412 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/mate-display-properties.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,429 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/xfce-display-settings.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,431 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/mate-system-monitor.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:49 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: [2017-12-17 14:35:49,441 pyinotify ERROR] add_watch: cannot watch /usr/share/applications/xfce4-taskmanager.desktop WD=-1, Errno=No such file or directory (ENOENT)
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: __init__ took 455.644 ms
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: updateBoxes
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: Binding to Hot Key: Super_L
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: on_icon_theme_changed
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: menuChanged
Dec 17 14:35:53 tenzan-Dell-DM061 org.mate.panel.applet.MintMenuAppletFactory[2576]: updateBoxes
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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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The exact same thing happened to me on MATE 17.2, with a slowdown but no dropped call. The sound did get more fuzzy after that though.

Skype plus chromium, I posted about it a couple weeks ago. Maxes out the cpu it seems but not sure
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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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Did you notify the people who develop Mint?

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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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tenzan wrote:Did you notify the people who develop Mint?

Tenzan

No sorry i just made a post here. I re installed with 18.3 and all is well now
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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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Thanks for the heads up, I had installed 18.2 just before the upgrade was announced and I'm pretty new to this so I missed it. Now upgraded, hopefully that's the last I'll see of the problem.

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Re: small non-disruptive crash?

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Yes for me I had a lot of problems with Mate 18.2, but with 18.3 its been smooth sailing.

I stopped using deluge for torrenting, it seemed to cause a lot of problems due to being a memory hog. It was so bad I thought my computer was seriously underpowered.

Other than that I didn't have to do much, but I did use some of these tips to get my system running cleaner

https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/3

Personally i would prefer a clean install but upgrading is probably fine
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