this is the first time in many years of my GNU/Linux journey that I saw a BSOD. on my office machine BTW. personal machine has never crashed even once.
the crash was due to 100% RAM and swap usage.

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a mobile-clicked photo of a laptop screen. the background is full black with a sad computer image in the middle. the text below it reads: "Oh no! something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
just below it is a small button with the text "log out"

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[–] 57 points 2 years ago

You've been gnomed

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Who uses ram anyway. Go buy yourself an HDD of 12TB of swap partition

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    100% RAM is a huge pain on Linux. I have a widget in my taskbar that always shows my RAM usage so I can tell if I'm about to get doinked

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Same, what usually spikes yours to 100%?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Up until yesterday I would've said "Firefox" (because I hoard tabs), but it turns the real answer was "Firefox running as a Snap."

    (A failed update screwed up my Snap installation, which finally gave me the kick I needed to quit procrastinating and excise it from my system once and for all. I'm running Firefox installed via apt package from Mozilla's PPA, and now -- with the same number of tabs open -- my system is hovering around 8 GB memory usage, when before it was constantly bouncing off the 32 GB redline.)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Carelessly running too many programs and not having much RAM.

    When I get my Framework 16, I'll either get 64 or 128GBs of RAM. It's so cheap nowadays, the only thing stopping me from getting more is simply the increased time to go to sleep and wake up.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't Linux have some sort of Page File?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Its not a dedicated file usually as you can setup a swap partition.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The cool part is, the kernel and most of the user space is still running fine, so there's no restart required (although I would anyway), it's just gnome is having issues.

    I've had dodgy hardware cause a kernel panic, which is much more equivalent to a Windows BSOD.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think I made it work too much. i'm running 23.10(non-LTS), hadn't shut it down for weeks, and was hoarding close to 200 tabs. furthermore, I had 3-4 electron-based applications open.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's not a problem. Especially because modern tabs hibernate. Linux can go forever without restarting, to the point where there are multiple services cropping up that let you upgrade your kernel while it's running, so you never have to reboot (mostly, in some edge cases it's still recommended to reboot).

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  • Failed to allocate 17.3 TiB of memory

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)
    [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oooh, this blokes found a beauty! I haven't seen one of those since I used an Eee PC with Debian as my daily driver. It has a whopping 1, I repeat, ONE GIGAbyte of RAM.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    That's not a blue screen, that's a boo screen

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Doesn't it show an error code?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I literary had this problem today!!! What I did to fix, and I'm not sure which one of these it is, but I ran all of these and I got it to work again

    sudo apt install --fix-broken

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

    sudo apt install --reinstall gnome

    sudo apt install --reinstall xorg

    sudo apt install --fix-missing

    sudo apt autoremove

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My very first experience with installing Ubuntu was a complete failure because I just got constant kernal panics. This was 2007ish trying to install Ubuntu on a bondi blue iMac using CD I had ordered from Canonical.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is ai creating alt text now?

    Also, ya no system is crash proof =(

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