Laptop stalls after 15-20 minutes

Hello. My Toshiba Satellite C655-S5307 (Intel Core i3) freezes up after being on for 15-20 minutes at which time I have to do a hard shutdown. Have not had system monitor open at the time to see what is happening. Is there a log or some way to find out what is causing the freeze-up? The fan starts to rev and then the mouse pointer stops responding.

Thank you.

Update: just ran it for 30 minutes and it was fine. Not sure what is happening.

You can get he log for the last boot with:
journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager

Also post the output of:
inxi -Fazy

Considering your laptop uses Mobile Intel ® HD graphics with 64MB-1696MB dynamically allocated
shared graphics memory I guess you probably running out of memory if you running anything graphics heavy on the model with 4GB ram. If there’s no swap it will crash for sure.

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High GPU usages → it gets hot → it cannot keep up → freeze.

journalctl --boot=-1
journalctl --boot=-1 --dmesg --grep="i915|radeon|amdgpu|nvidia|nouveau"
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Gentle shut down a suddenly hanged PC to minimize a chance of getting a broken filesystem and data loss:

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysrq.html

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