On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 20:37 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2023-07-24 15:01, Carl Spitzer {L Juno} wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 12:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> 
>> That is peculiar to you, other people don't have that problem.
>>
>> My guess is that you have an OOM situation, and the kernel starts
>> killing things and bringing the system down.
>>
>> Do you have enough Swap space?
>>
>>
>> I have, for instance, something like 80 firefox windows and uncountable
>> tabs. Sometimes, 3 firefox instances. No crashes, uptime is 100 days.
>>
> 
> As I remember 2GB for swap.

Small.

Well, you tell us. Run "free" or "free -h" as we asked, when firefox is 
loaded.

As soon as graphical mode comes up. First finish backup then attempt 15.5 install.

Since Knopix does not come up into graphical mode it may be time for a new laptop.

CWSIV