UI freeze randomly

Hi guys,

I've been experiencing random freezes while using my PC. It seems to only affect the UI because music continues to play, Zoom meetings keep working, but my UI freezes for about 1-2 minutes before unfreezing. During the freeze, I can move the cursor, but the keyboard is unresponsive. Sounds work fine, but the clock in the bottom-right corner is also frozen.

What could be causing this? My first thought was the GPU, but I replaced it, and the problem persists. Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be? I'm able to replicate the freezing when I print something. Everytime I print something. My UI freeze for 1-2 minutes. But it happens in other circumstances too.

I've attached a screenshot of my specs.

Run journalctl -f before replicating the error and post the output.

I attached the output. There's a lot of errors.

https://files.catbox.moe/ncx3c8.txt

Can you try disabling gnome extensions? Maybe one of the extensions could be causing the freeze.

The only custom gnome extension I add is this one. The others are gnome extension provided by Zorin by default.

I just disabled it. I will let you know if the issue persist.

Issue is persisting when printing. If I disable the zorin printer extension, Will I be able to print?

Yes, you can use lp /path/to/your/document.pdf command to print your documents.

Since I disabled Zorin Printers, I haven’t experienced any freezing. It seems to have been the cause of the issue. I’ll let you know if I encounter any new freezes.

Thanks!

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