[PLUG] Strange system behavior needs possible explanation

[Thomas G]

On Wed, 4 May 2022 07:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> 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

out of memory condition?

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