We discussed this a little back in July. I just want to say that the syslog wasn't helping much. The crashes didn't seem to have much to do with what was in the log. I never figured out where the problem was, but as I said in my previous message, over the past three months it kept on improving. It could go 3 days without a crash. I have now upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10, and I'm hoping that fixes more of my problems. I was going to go back to 16.10 LTS, but that looked like it would be a big hassle, so I was crossing my finger instead, just hoping it would fix itself (not as crazy as it sounds, right?). Mike On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Mike Miller wrote: > This was as serious as any BSOD. I was using chromium-browser and > when I used the mouse to copy the URL, the whole system just froze. > The mouse still moved on the screen at first, but nothing else worked, > then the mouse froze too. I doubt it had anything to do with > chromium. I couldn't use ctrl-alt-F1 and the machine seemed to > disappear from the home network, so I couldn't even see it, never mind > ping it or ssh to it. > > Here are the messages from /var/log/syslog (my machine is "taxa2"): > > Jul 24 17:02:49 taxa2 org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[2445]: fusermount: failed to > access mountpoint /run/user/1000/gvfs: Permission denied > Jul 24 17:02:50 taxa2 hud-service[2166]: #033[31mvoid > DBusMenuImporter::slotGetLayoutFinished(QDBusPendingCallWatcher*)#033[0m: > "No such interface 'com.canonical.dbusmenu' on object at path > /org/ayatana/bamf/window/67108867" > Jul 24 17:02:54 taxa2 unity-panel-ser[2034]: menus_destroyed: > assertion 'IS_WINDOW_MENU(wm)' failed > > That's what happened just as it got stuck. There was nothing for 25 > minutes before that and nothing after that until I reset the computer > and rebooted. > > Any ideas? Could it have anything to do with samba? (That was > running, but nothing should have been accessing it at that time.) I > was not using sshfs. > > Mike >