Peppermint 8 64bit SAMSUNG R60 plus

Sometimes the computer will just freeze.   Keyboard and mouse stop working but screen and rest of system seems OK.

Tested RAM and HD and file system all show as OK Temp also OK.

So anyone have any clues why it should just freeze?

This can even happen when system is idle just showing the desktop with CPU at just 5% use.

Thanks.

Peppermint 8 64bit on SAMSUNG R60 plus laptop.

problem happens when selecting shutdown or reboot.

All starts well the progress bar is moving then it stops about 1/3 of the way and just gets stuck after 10 mins I just have to switch it off.

This previously happened in October 2017 the  keyboard is also frozen and so hitting Esc has no effect.

In 2017 the problem cleared up on its own after running sudo apt-update. (this has not worked this time).

I tried a Live USB of Peppermint 8 - 9 and 10 but the same problem occurs.

Previously I was asked for the following info:

usertwo@usertwo-R59P-R60P-R61P ~ $ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: usertwo-R59P-R60P-R61P Kernel: 4.15.0-51-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: N/A Distro: Peppermint Eight
Machine:   System: SAMSUNG product: R59P/R60P/R61P v: 03YI
           Mobo: SAMSUNG model: R59P/R60P/R61P
           Bios: Phoenix v: 03YI date: 10/01/2007
CPU:       Dual core Intel Pentium Dual T2310 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
           clock speeds: max: 1467 MHz 1: 1183 MHz 2: 1168 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS600M [Radeon Xpress 1250]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.6 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1280x800@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS600 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 17.0.2
Audio:     Card Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-51-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath5k
           IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Marvell 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
           IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (18.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1600BEVS size: 160.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 144G used: 25G (19%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.35GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0C mobo: 46.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 163 Uptime: 25 min Memory: 976.4/2748.4MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35
usertwo@usertwo-R59P-R60P-R61P ~ $

usertwo@usertwo-R59P-R60P-R61P ~ $ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1374796k,nr_inodes=343699,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=281436k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=28,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=14214)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=281436k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
usertwo@usertwo-R59P-R60P-R61P ~ $

Any help would be helpful.

Hi how do you copy all the TTF fonts that come with Office across to Linux?

Running mint 18.3 64bit

I did a clean installation and now this box is on a different LAN to all other devices.

This computer is on WORKGROUP   everything else is on 000D0B6DA3C4

How can I change the name of the workgroup on this computer to 000D0B6DA3C4

Rebooting made no difference.

Setting the DNS server also makes no difference.

Network manager is getting DNS settings.

 

Running mint 18.3 64bit system.

I connect via a cable LAN to the internet.

The LAN is working just fine can connect to all equipment on the LAN.

But CAN NOT connect to the internet.  Anything that needs to connect to the internet is not working.

Also tried via Wi-Fi and get connected to the modem but no connection to the internet.

Tried using a Live USB of mint 18.3 and everything works just fine.

Word documents without complex settings maybe OK but open an office 365 power point presentation and it can take hours to make it useable in L.O.

So I am hoping that L.O. 6 is an improvement.
Thanks for your comments.

what is snap? can it be trusted.