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See also: Common Problems and Reporting A Problem

A "crash" is a condition in which a process completely stops responding or exits abnormally. It is a type of error or "exception", that is a circumstance which differs from what was expected to occur.

Crashes can be caused by numerous causes. Different processes may spiral out of control while accidentally fighting for control of the same resource, there could be a bug or incompatibility in the program code or there could be a hardware problem. In very rare cases there could be an internal problem with the kernel

Whatever the cause, a Crash is usually detected by the desktop environment and reported by a dialog box, typically saying "this window is not responding" or "this application has crashed" or similar language. In cases where the window remains open, and the process continues to run, but has stopped responding, the window manager will offer to kill the process.

Processes can also be killed manually by pressing ctrl alt esc and clicking the offending window, or by using the task manager, or the kill and killall commands on the command line.

If a crash occurs regularly or interrupts work, please file a PR.

See also

• List of Common Error Messages and their meanings.
• Reporting A Problem
• Process

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