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Need help, my computer has just started to freeze up and reboot randomly. It happened three times yesterday. How do I find out what is the cause? I have reset Ubuntu to a previous known good install, but I fear it may be a hardware issue.

Edit : It appear rolling back to a previous state has fixed the problem.
 
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A lot has happened since my last post. Rolling back did not fix the problem. The logs don't show what caused the crash, there are no critical errors reported. The cause by a process of elimination was the Eve-Online client running under Steam Proton Experimental. I was able to reproduce the reboot error on a 2nd Computer with different hardware but again there where no logs. It was suggested to switch from Ubuntu to Debian, but the reboots continued. Lastly was to run Eve with launch perimeters:

Code: 
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 LD_PRELOAD= %command%

But that failed a long test rebooting after 38 Hours combined (restarting the client after downtime)

I am now running a test on Windows 11 for a couple of days to see if I get a BSOD, which might indicate a hardware problem, yet none of the computers I have tested on have ever crashed without the Eve client running.

It appears that I am the only one with this problem so maybe the error is PEBCAK! lol
 
I'm finding it incredibly difficult to get Ubuntu and Plex working.
I got Plex up and running using the app place it's installed it via Snap or something no idea what that is.

I can access my Plex media via the file browser at its IP, I then bookmarked the folders, TV Shows, Movies and Music.
I just can't get these to be seen in Plex, tried a few guides online some"chown" command or similar but didn't work. All these commands are meaningless to me, so used to a GUI of windows.
 
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robj20 said:
I'm finding it incredibly difficult to get Ubuntu and Plex working.
I got Plex up and running using the app place it's installed it via Snap or something no idea what that is.

I can access my Plex media via the file browser at its IP, I then bookmarked the folders, TV Shows, Movies and Music.
I just can't get these to be seen in Plex, tried a few guides online some"chown" command or similar but didn't work. All these commands are meaningless to me, so used to a GUI of windows.
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Might be a Snap issue. They're basically sandbox environments/self contained instances of the app but it means that permissions need to be right for it to have the necessary access to the rest of your system.

I'd remove the Snap and either use Flathub (similar to Snap but generally better) or go to the Plex site directly and use the Ubuntu Linux install from there.
 
Always worked for me in Docker but sounds like that may be a bit more of a learning curve for you. Depends what else you’re doing with the machine.
 
Mesai said:
Might be a Snap issue. They're basically sandbox environments/self contained instances of the app but it means that permissions need to be right for it to have the necessary access to the rest of your system.

I'd remove the Snap and either use Flathub (similar to Snap but generally better) or go to the Plex site directly and use the Ubuntu Linux install from there.
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Tried that, couldn't get the .deb to install. No matter what I typed it said it couldn't find it.
 
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