Fixing issues with ElementryOS linux randomly hanging
The most recent install of ElementaryOS brought with it some kind of incompatibility bug where the computer would freeze randomly while scrolling a web browser window. Problem exists in both Chrome and Firefox, so I didn’t think it was a browser issue. And this computer was super stable before ElementaryOS, so I set out to fix it. After a few experiments, I found that updating the Kernel a few versions made it very stable, it has not stumbled once since.
Here is how I fixed ElementryOS randomly hanging: 1) download either the 32 or 64 bit version of the newer kernel here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17.1-utopic/ Make sure you download the headers, headers all, and the linux-image for your kind of OS (32 bit are the i386 versions.) You need all three files.
2) open a terminal window
3) change to the downloaded files location in the terminal with a command like:
cd ~/Downloads
4) run the following command in the terminal window:
sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb
5) When that is complete, reboot your computer
6) done!