Oddball occasional freeze on Dell Inspiron

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 11:00:30AM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> My partner is running Xubuntu 18.04 on her main computer, a Dell
> inspiron 17" laptop we bought new a little over a year ago.  Every
> once in a while, usually about once a week, the system simply freezes
> up and stops responding for more than five minutes at a time.
> 
> Last night we were running a Zoom test between my desktop and her
> laptop, and her system froze.  Usually it's when she has too many
> Chrome tabs open and one of them locks up the machine.
> 
Can you ping the Dell or ssh into it?  I.e. is it a just a GUI hang?

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Chris Green