[PLUG] Strange system behavior needs possible explanation

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed May 4 14:52:11 UTC 2022


This morning I left the desktop for about 45 minutes. When I returned the
Xfce4 workspace hosting firefox was empty. I could not load it. On another
workspace I tried invoking the Brave web browser, but it also would not
load.

Logging out and back in did not fix the issue. Still no browser available
for use. Checking the process list showed firefox had two running processes,
but it would not load and display.

I rebooted the system and that fixed the problem.

I've not before seen this in the 25 years I've run linux and firefox, and
have no idea why it might have stopped working while the system sat idle for
a while and not recover until the system was rebooted.

Any thoughts?

Rich



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