This has already happened 3 times. It started a little while ago, but it’s annoying me a little.
The scenario is as follows: I have Firefox, Slack and Spotify open. 67% free ram, 31% CPU usage. I try to share my screen on Google Meet and the screen freezes, I can still hear the audio and move the mouse, but nothing else responds.
I had this problem with Google Meet on Firefox and the Zoom app. In the case of Zoom I managed to continue using the computer, but all applications started to fail and the camera did not respond. I tried to shut down and the system returned an error on the dbus, I had to force the shutdown.
I am using Zorin Lite 15.3. My device is a Lenovo S145-15API.
I just ran the updates, I hope it resolves.
I also have another point: since I installed it, it presents some recording errors before turning off, then it turns off normally. I didn’t read the error messages, but they all said something about recording (at an address, perhaps, I don’t remember). This is an intermittent problem; I could update this post as soon as I see this error again.
Update: I just restarted the system because it “lost control” of RAM or something like this. I had Zoom open (again) on a call while using Firefox when Zoom lost everything it was doing and turned into a gray window with some badly rendered buttons. I tried to close it and the system returned a warning that Zoom appeared to be busy. I forced it to end and went back to Firefox when I realized that Firefox was still working but it had lost reference to the pages that were open.
Note: I sent a photo of the error during shutdown
Edit: My settings match the settings you recommended. I haven’t changed anything since installation
Seems like this writer has the same problem. Aravisian had noted potential kernel issues. Unfortunately, that is not an option here.
Change the amount of RAM Firefox uses (I believe it’s under Edit -> Preferences -> performance or a similar path) and reduce it from default of 8 to 2 or 1 or something lower. See if that helps.
Hit ctrl+x to exit. Then hit the y key to say yes to save it. Then hit the enter key to save it under the original file.
The terminal will return to normal. You can reboot and test.
I know this is an old thread but I came across a similar issue (computer froze completely after starting to share a screen using Signal or zoom) on an old Dell Latitude 5410.
It was actually quite straightforward to solve this problem because apparently Wayland was the problem. After switching back to Xorg screen sharing would not cause any more issues. Unfortunately, the easy option (using the gear icon on the login screen) to switch from Wayland to Xorg wasn't available, so I had to do it using the terminal.
To find out whether you're using Wayland or Xorg use the command
echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
If it says Wayland, you're using Wayland.
To disable Wayland (causing the system to use Xorg) enter
sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
then look for the line that says
#WaylandEnable=false
and uncomment it (remove the '#' at the beginning of the line):
WaylandEnable=false
Now save the file (Ctrl+O then ENTER) and exit nano (Ctrl+X).
Confirm the changes using
cat /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
You should now see the uncommented line (WaylandEnable=false).
