Stable Working Environment

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nefarious
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Stable Working Environment

Post by nefarious »

I just started using FreeCad, I'll just start with that. I do enjoy it, learning new ways to do things is always fun. I am also retired, so time is not an issues, except for the fact that there is never enough of it, no matter what.

I have a problem running FreeCad, sometimes it just hangs several times a day, and I am trying to figure out what is wrong.

When I am working, I save very frequently, I also exit from FreeCad and start a new instance often.

I am running FreeCad V; 0.20.2
on Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1 LTS

I never hang outside of FreeCad, not that I do much more these days.

Hang means that sometimes the machine will not respond to any keyboard or mouse, sometimes I can just use the keyboard, and sometimes It just reboots. Sometimes I get to recover my work.

What I want to try to understand is, is this configuration known to have problems?

Should I look at maybe replacing the display hardware, I know this will increase general speed as well.
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Shalmeneser
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Re: Stable Working Environment

Post by Shalmeneser »

You can try the 0.21 AppImage : https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bund ... kly-builds

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OS: Linux Mint 20.3 (MATE/mate)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.0.31625 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: 72df7997700062b6a02f2f208e6291f64073fb88
Python 3.10.8, Qt 5.15.6, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.3
Locale: French/France (fr_FR)
Installed mods: 
  * Manipulator 1.4.9
  * fasteners
  * sheetmetal 0.2.57
  * DynamicData 2.46.0
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drmacro
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Re: Stable Working Environment

Post by drmacro »

As Shalm suggests you might try the 0.21 appimage. I run on Ubuntu 22.04 with the appimage an have not experienced the behavior you describe.

(And, I use a custom Linux kernel on this PC...)

As is always the case, though, YMMV.
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