Before has Ubuntu and was SO TIRED of the freezing usually 1-2 hours after staring the PC.
Usually only 1 freeze per day.
Noticed many times AFTER a hard reboot there was an update waiting.
Tried to turn off ALL update checking with no luck.
And after turning off all update checking (that I could find), there were still others done by the system.
Installed Linux Mint and so the freezing continued and also seemed to be connected to update checking. Installed Mint LMBE, 2 weeks later the daily freeze came back and also wanted update later.
Now into Manjaro, took 3 weeks for the 1st freeze and YES there was an update waiting.
Since then a daily freeze about 1-2 hours after starting the PC and YES also sometimes there was an update. So 3 OS by different companies having the SAME issue.
Question: How to turn off all update checking and any & all system checking of anything/everything? Yes will do these updates/checking manually at my convenience & daily. Maybe nice having a script to run.
This sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the storage. Have you run any tests on the hard disk (and maybe also RAM, for good measure)?
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
Change sda
to whatever your device reports itself as.
Definitely hardware. Also, check for clogged fan vents, fan operation.
Another thing to monitor:
watch -n30 sensors
You may need to install lm-sensors
; change time value (in seconds) to whatever suits you.
You can deactivate the autosearch function for updates in Pamac at the top right (Drop down Menue) in the pamac GUI and click on Preferences.
From there you can deactivate the Check for Updates function.
Anyways, this freezes are not normal.
Besides cpu overheating which you will easily notice, and the disk which may not be obvious, another component that can cause strange intermittent problems is the ram. From the uefi boot menu or the grub boot menu - run a memtest. Let it run for at least an hour. Note that it can only give a false negative, there are no false positives there. If you encounter an error - change the ram.
Please provide some system information in case it might reveal any other contributing factors:
inxi --admin --verbosity=8 --filter --no-host --width
sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1p1 & p2 are the correct commands for my system
They show no issues for the disk
If there a hardware issue(s), should it freeze more often than about 1-2 hours after start of the day?
Watch command has no āsensorā option
This is a new system and have been checking temp for issues
If reboot about 1 hour after starting for the day, usually it does not freeze.
Interesting today when ready to reboot after about a hour up, there was the update available flag.
Yes have turn OFF Check for Updates, will see if that made a difference.
Iāll ādecodeā the command - what it does:
watch -n30 $command
runs $command
every 30 seconds - you can literally watch how the output of $command
changes over time
$command
in this case is: sensors
ā¦ there is no sensors
option to the watch
command -
the command sensors
is run every x seconds with this:
watch -n30 sensors
man watch
NAME
watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
...
If there are issues, it could act up in every way imaginable at any time.
It may depends on the Workloadā¦ some devices in your System maybe donāt like the different powerstages, like Powersaving/Idling or demanding Workloads.
Example could be, to much Voltsettings or to less Voltsettings, which leads to a unstable system in certain situations.
Combined to bad cooling solution or maybe a bad airflow.
Newer highend systems, required very good cooling solutions.
The Watt requirements going sky high for this CPUās.
A new system with a new bios, could also face early adapter problems.
But first, give us your system information as @soundofthunder recommend, before you update your bios.
When you have a new system, its even more important to use the newest update and probably a newer Kernel.
Have checked the manufacturer for updates, none.
Yes do check and try to keep all current as possible
Have turned off the update checking in Add/remove Software.
Did notice auto updates were done while possible programs were running. That alone can create a unstable situation. So turned all off of checking & updates.
At the end of my day, close all apps and open Add/Remove Software and check for updates & install any before shutting down. For 3 days now NOT ONE FREEZE!