I'm running 18.04 and I have this error. However, I was able to get
thumbnails working in Thunar. Ufraw is still segfaulting, but it creates
the thumbnail first. So it seems it might be incidental and this bug is
not causing the thumbnail issue.
The fix for me to get thumbnails was to run:
sudo u
Same issue here on a new 16.04 install on a new HP laptop. SSD. It was
crashing randomly during the install, then when I got it installed it
crashed every time I tried to run the updater.
Setting the vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio to 10 and 5
worked for me as well so far.
I did
False alarm! The problem just happened again. Froze while downloading
the google chrome installer.
It does seem like the vm.dirty modifications definitely helped. But it
could have been coincidence. At least it didn't freeze during the
updater and ruin my filesystem this time.
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