I recently installed the community edition of i3, I was using the xfce prior to that with no problems. Now however, my system randomly freezes. I have been unable to diagnose the problem, one thing that I did however was use this script GitHub - erpalma/throttled: Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux. as I am using a lenovo X1 Carbon 6 laptop.
inxi -Fza
System: Kernel: 5.8.18-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=ea024c99-a84e-4340-a0c6-9f0aac65f36d rw quiet
resume=UUID=7a56d5a5-0ba2-4732-bfda-0d6e5eaa0340 udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: i3 4.18.3 info: polybar dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20KHCTO1WW v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10
serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20KHCTO1WW serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: N23ET75W (1.50 ) date: 10/13/2020
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.9 Wh condition: 42.1/57.0 Wh (74%) volts: 12.9/11.6 model: LGC 01AV494 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: Unknown cycles: 222
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 3 serial: <filter>
charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU: Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8650U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 8E (142)
stepping: A (10) microcode: E0 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 33615
Speed: 700 MHz min/max: 400/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 700 2: 700 3: 700 4: 700 5: 700 6: 700 7: 700 8: 700
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5917
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-8:5 chip ID: 04f2:b61e serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: picom v: git-dac85 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4480x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1185x381mm (46.7x15.0") s-diag: 1245mm (49")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 157 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7") diag: 354mm (13.9")
Monitor-2: HDMI1 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 108 size: 600x340mm (23.6x13.4") diag: 690mm (27.2")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl
bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.18-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Lenovo driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6
chip ID: 8086:15d7
IF: enp0s31f6 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 8086:24fd
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 534.74 GiB used: 77.91 GiB (14.6%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Lenovo model: LENSE30512GMSP34MEAT3TA size: 476.94 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2.5.0412 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.90 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Kingston model: DataTraveler 3.0 size: 28.90 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 459.71 GiB size: 451.49 GiB (98.21%) used: 77.89 GiB (17.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.93 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info: Processes: 216 Uptime: 8m Memory: 15.39 GiB used: 1.57 GiB (10.2%) Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1295 lib: 410 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: alacritty inxi: 3.1.08
Below is the output of journalctl -b-1
lines 1-78
-- Logs begin at Fri 2020-11-06 12:09:38 EET, end at Tue 2020-11-17 13:21:14 EET. --
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Linux version 5.8.18-1-MANJARO (builder@b81df68610d1) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 1 14:10:04 UTC 2020
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 root=UUID=ea024c99-a84e-4340-a0c6-9f0aac65f36d rw quiet resume=UUID=7a56d5a5-0ba2-4732-bfda-0d6e5eaa0340 udev.log_priority=3
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Intel GenuineIntel
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Hygon HygonGenuine
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: zhaoxin Shanghai
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers'
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers'
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers'
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x008: 'MPX bounds registers'
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x010: 'MPX CSR'
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[2]: 576, xstate_sizes[2]: 256
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[3]: 832, xstate_sizes[3]: 64
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: xstate_offset[4]: 896, xstate_sizes[4]: 64
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/fpu: Enabled xstate features 0x1f, context size is 960 bytes, using 'compacted' format.
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000057fff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000058000-0x0000000000058fff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000059000-0x000000000009cfff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009d000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffffff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000403fffff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040400000-0x000000004545ffff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000045460000-0x0000000045460fff] ACPI NVS
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000045461000-0x0000000045461fff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000045462000-0x000000004edc5fff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004edc6000-0x000000004ee94fff] type 20
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004ee95000-0x000000004ff1bfff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004ff1c000-0x000000004ff99fff] ACPI NVS
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004ff9a000-0x000000004fffefff] ACPI data
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000004ffff000-0x000000004fffffff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000050000000-0x0000000057ffffff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000058600000-0x000000005c7fffff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f7ffffff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fe010000-0x00000000fe010fff] reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x00000004a17fffff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: efi: EFI v2.50 by Lenovo
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: efi: TPMFinalLog=0x4ff92000 SMBIOS=0x4f05a000 SMBIOS 3.0=0x4f057000 ACPI=0x4fffe000 ACPI 2.0=0x4fffe014 ESRT=0x4eee4000 MEMATTR=0x495f7018
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: SMBIOS 3.0.0 present.
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: DMI: LENOVO 20KHCTO1WW/20KHCTO1WW, BIOS N23ET75W (1.50 ) 10/13/2020
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: tsc: Detected 2100.000 MHz processor
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: tsc: Detected 2099.944 MHz TSC
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: e820: update [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] usable ==> reserved
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: e820: remove [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] usable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: last_pfn = 0x4a1800 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: MTRR default type: write-back
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 00000-9FFFF write-back
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: A0000-BFFFF uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: C0000-FFFFF write-protect
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: MTRR variable ranges enabled:
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 0 base 0080000000 mask 7F80000000 uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 1 base 0060000000 mask 7FE0000000 uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 2 base 005C000000 mask 7FFC000000 uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 3 base 005A000000 mask 7FFE000000 uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 4 base 2000000000 mask 7000000000 uncachable
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 5 disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 6 disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 7 disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 8 disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: 9 disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WB WC UC- UC WB WP UC- WT
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: last_pfn = 0x50000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: esrt: Reserving ESRT space from 0x000000004eee4000 to 0x000000004eee4088.
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: check: Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Using GB pages for direct mapping
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: Secure boot could not be determined
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: RAMDISK: [mem 0x3674b000-0x3739cfff]
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: Early table checksum verification disabled
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: RSDP 0x000000004FFFE014 000024 (v02 LENOVO)
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: XSDT 0x000000004FFB2188 000124 (v01 LENOVO TP-N23 00001500 PTEC 00000002)
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: FACP 0x000000004FFEB000 0000F4 (v05 LENOVO TP-N23 00001500 PTEC 00000002)
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: DSDT 0x000000004FFC0000 026DC4 (v02 LENOVO SKL 00000000 INTL 20160527)
Nov 17 09:25:08 kritical kernel: ACPI: FACS 0x000000004FF3E000 000040
Any ideas as to what might be going on? Should I maybe be using an older kernel?