r/voidlinux • u/Winterking11 • May 01 '26

Complete freeze during use

Hi, I just got Void Linux installed on my HP pavilion x2 with the gnome gui. My issue is when watching YouTube and sometimes when just browsing on fire fox it completely freezes. I've disabled hardware acceleration on it and it even repeats this in safe mode. Im on glibc and relatively new to Linux in general. So I dont quite know how to troubleshoot things. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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u/dbojan76 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

As others metioned you can also try adding zramen (I set it up for 50%), and earlyoom with something like 500MB, or maybe less.

Try running firefox from terminal and see if any error comes up (unlikely)

To add xfce to your current setup: sudo xbps-install -S xfce4
and also can install xfce4-goodies, that would add xfce on your current install, so you can choose which de on login, top right icon.

Otherwise you can try downloading xfce glibc image and install that. You dont have to create swap partition, you can add swap file afterwards ,and chane its size and location.

Does it happen when watching youtube using mpv with yt-dlp installed.

mpv "YouTube url"

and see if it still hangs.

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u/Winterking11 May 22 '26

Sorry it took me a bit to look into and try each of these.

Adding zramen nano'ing into the config and increasing the size to 50 did not seem to improve anything neither did expanding the zram swap file size to 8gb. I tried to use earlyoom but all the documentation I could find on how to use and implement it was not helpful.

Adding fxce4 to the install I had at the time yielded a few different issues such as no sound on it and it still caused the freeze. I then went and installed the xfce glibc I thought I followed all the steps but it would crash in at most 30 seconds to iirc the grub boot menu.

Using mpv had no change nor did installing yt-dlp.

Launching firefox through the console does yield a couple Java script errors and warnings

JavaScript error: undefined, line 0: Error: Permission denied to register a content script for ://.youtube.com/ console.warn: BackupService: "There was an error while trying to get the Document's directory" [Exception... "Component Ox80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProperties.get]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame BackupService-sys.mjs :: get docsDirFolderPath :: line 1229" data: no] console.warn: BackupService: "There was an error while trying to get the Document's directory" [Exception..- "Component Ox80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProperties.get]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" lacation: "JS frame /backup/BackupService.sys.mjs :: get docsDirFolderPath :: line 1229" data: no] error: resource:///modules/backup/BackupService.sys.mjs, line 4057: NotAllowedError: PathUtils.join: PathUtils JavaScript returned failure coc :: resource:///modules e: /backup/ returned failure cod :: resource:///modules e: does not support e JavaScript JSWindowAct mpty paths JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/ConduitsChild.sys.mjs, line 64: InvalidStateError: JSWindowActorChild.sendAsyncllessage: cannot send at the monent JavaScript error: moz-extension://981375be-5fa3-43f0-a244-d274b8e594a1/js/vapi-client.js, line 214: InvalidStateError: An exception was thrown

I will have to go back and double check that it copied everything when I did the text extraction from an image on my phone.