Running Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Cinnamon iso. Linux kernel 6.5.0-41. Not sure what happened here or what the cause was, occasionally happens when using Firefox. It’ll bug out like this for a few seconds, then when I move my curser over it everything goes back to normal.
I’ve also experienced an issue where, when opening a tab or doing something in Firefox (usually Google docs), the entire system will randomly do a partial reboot? best way I can explain it is it’ll go black, flash (what I assume is) the BIOS terminal screen, then load in my lock screen; all my open softwares will have closed out and I’d have to open it again. Idk if the system is rebooting fully when this happens or not but it sure as hell feels like it.
Are these related? are they Firefox issues or is something fucky with my drivers?
I’ve verified everything is up to date like 6 times just in case.
Update: Have not personally resolved either issue. unsure if they are unrelated. I can’t seem to replicate the issue, unsure if they will be resolved by a random update or not, though the issues do seem to be fairly recent and known about; see comments for what I found on the Internet.
It’s marked [Solved], so it should be fine 👍
Your laptop is channeling Zyredaxx, demon of the Third Core.
I thought it was the matrix.
When everything closes, are you sure that’s the lock screen and not the login screen? It sounds like cinnamon is crashing, which means you’re automatically switched back to the display manager (login screen). This can sometimes show the boot logo while it’s switching, happens on my laptop as well, noy sure why that is. If it is crashing, you might find the cause in the logs, run
journalctl -e
anddmesg
to check for errorsyeah you’re correct, it is the login screen and not the lock screen. it just happened again while I was leaving my laptop running and playing music. I’ll run those commands in a little bit, otherwise occupied atm
HP laptop… That looks exactly like my stupid HP laptop with a stupid AMD Vega 6 chipset when it randomly craps its own display when opening the lid and waking up.
My solution is to keep the kernel woefully outdated at the last revision that seems to create the least problems. I can give you the exact version number when I get back home if you want.
It happens when they change something…
ZALGO!
Or more likely your video card is some kind of fucked.
Reminds me of r/Ooer back in the 10s, haha. No idea why that’s happening though, never seen anything like that.
The layout of that sub killed me
I’ve had VMs do this if not enough vram were allocated.
Since this is running on metal, I’d say check BIOS settings to see if you can dedicate additional memory to video/GPU. This is a pretty common feature for laptops and desktops with integrated graphics.
Following that, see if there may be a better non-free driver for your graphics. I’d recommend getting
lspci
output if you don’t know what chipset it is. What model is the laptop?What you’re explaining re: partial reboot sounds like your window/display manager crashing.
Not sure about the closing everything issue. I’ve not had that. But for graphical issues; it often helps to restart cinnamon by pressing alt-F2 (or sometimes Fn+alt+F2), typing “r”, then pressing enter.
Not sure if that would help for the kind of problems you’re having though.
If that’s the login or lock screen, Cinnamon won’t be handling them.
As for restarting Cinnamon, Alt+F2, r, Enter is the mild restart. There’s also a deeper restart accessible through Melange, Cinammon’s debugger.
By default, it’s bound to Meta+L and in its bottom right drop-down, there is an option to Restart Cinnamon.
What’s the difference? For one it definitely clears up zombie child processes that Cinnamon might be ignoring. (It might have also ironed out refresh rate issues and screen-tearing that the milder restart didn’t help with, but my setup has changed a bit since then.)
Always worth a try if the first one doesn’t seem to sort a problem out. Definitely worth it when the next two options are log out and back in, or reboot.
(Just be careful when clicking because the next menu option is “Crash Cinnamon”.)
The best shot you could have taken. Good work!
I have the same issue on my laptop, except it’s constant from the moment I log into Cinnamon. Other DEs are fine.
In the end I was too lazy to troubleshoot it, but maybe I’ll try with the Wayland session. If that has the same issue, something’s gone terribly wrong.