Manjaro freezes sometimes if Youtube is used (Firefox)

Before the entire computer freezes and I have to force a restart of the computer, the sound of the Youtube-video I currently watch (in Firefox) starts to stutter and repeat the last ~2s, image freezes and then shortly after (~5s) I cannot move the cursor and boom. Today I managed catch the whole thing early on and I could delay the inevitable by trying to play another part of the video and even closed the tab after that try - all in vain, about a minute later the system-wide freeze still occurred.
The strange thing is that sometimes I can watch Youtube literally for hours and it does fine, sometimes not even an hour - I do not know how to reproduce it.
I use “Enhancer for Youtube” if that matters.

Info about setup:
      System:
      Kernel: 5.4.101-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
      parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64 
      root=UUID=bd95ae15-5be9-4441-9382-8843ab34b89c ro quiet apparmor=1 
      security=apparmor resume=UUID=a93c7ed8-a3dd-4fb7-b42f-cc9c03ae2fba 
      udev.log_priority=3 
      Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
      Distro: Manjaro Linux 
    Machine:
      Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X550LB v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
      Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X550LB v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
      UEFI: American Megatrends v: X550LB.403 date: 06/26/2014 
    Battery:
      ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.2 Wh condition: 36.2/44.2 Wh (82%) volts: 14.4/14.4 
      model: ASUSTeK X550A30 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Full cycles: 432 
      Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M560 
      serial: <filter> charge: 50% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes 
      status: N/A 
    Memory:
      RAM: total: 7.66 GiB used: 4.84 GiB (63.2%) 
      RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
    CPU:
      Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-4500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
      arch: Haswell family: 6 model-id: 45 (69) stepping: 1 microcode: 26 
      L2 cache: 4 MiB bogomips: 19167 
      Speed: 1843 MHz min/max: 800/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1843 2: 2149 
      3: 2172 4: 1852 
      Flags: abm acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts 
      clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm 
      dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase 
      fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx 
      monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm 
      pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdtscp rep_good 
      sdbg sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 
      tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xsave 
      xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
      Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
      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 status: Not affected 
    Graphics:
      Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 
      v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0a16 class ID: 0300 
      Device-2: NVIDIA GK208M [GeForce GT 740M] driver: N/A 
      alternate: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1292 
      class ID: 0302 
      Device-3: Chicony USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
      bus ID: 2-5:5 chip ID: 04f2:b40a class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
      Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
      loaded: intel display ID: :0 screens: 1 
      Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 507x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
      s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
      Monitor-1: HDMI1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 30 size: 1600x900mm (63.0x35.4") 
      diag: 1836mm (72.3") 
      OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) 
      v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
    Audio:
      Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
      v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0a0c class ID: 0403 
      Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
      v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9c20 class ID: 0403 
      Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.101-1-MANJARO 
    Network:
      Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
      vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.1 
      chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
      IF: enp2s0f1 state: down mac: <filter> 
      Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter 
      vendor: AzureWave AW-NE186H driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 
      bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0032 class ID: 0280 
      IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
      IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
      broadcast: <filter> 
      IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
      WAN IP: <filter> 
    Bluetooth:
      Message: No Bluetooth data was found. 
    RAID:
      Message: No RAID data was found. 
    Drives:
      Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 519.7 GiB (27.9%) 
      SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
      ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB 
      size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
      rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0002 scheme: GPT 
      ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Seagate 
      model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B 
      logical: 512 B rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 1053 scheme: MBR 
      Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: Slimtype model: DVD A DA8A6SH rev: GAA2 
      dev-links: cdrom 
      Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
      rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
    Partition:
      ID-1: / raw size: 49.61 GiB size: 48.58 GiB (97.93%) used: 25.88 GiB (53.3%) 
      fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A 
      uuid: bd95ae15-5be9-4441-9382-8843ab34b89c 
      ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 201 MiB size: 197.9 MiB (98.45%) 
      used: 298 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
      uuid: A51E-0467 
      ID-3: /home raw size: 195.31 GiB size: 191.25 GiB (97.92%) 
      used: 95.27 GiB (49.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A 
      uuid: d2c718a1-d001-478a-8e2b-feee1c743f30 
      ID-4: /home/<filter>/HDD raw size: 931.51 GiB size: 915.89 GiB (98.32%) 
      used: 397.4 GiB (43.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A 
      uuid: 6af0a9a8-cedc-4edb-8f06-01001277da20 
    Swap:
      Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.8 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (41.1%) 
      priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A 
      uuid: a93c7ed8-a3dd-4fb7-b42f-cc9c03ae2fba 
    Unmounted:
      ID-1: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 300 MiB fs: ntfs 
      label: Helyre\xc3\xa1ll\xc3\xadt\xc3\xa1s uuid: ECCAC404CAC3C8D2 
      ID-2: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: N/A 
      uuid: 30C6-3C76 
      ID-3: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
      label: N/A uuid: N/A 
      ID-4: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 size: 683.08 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
      uuid: E68CC9208CC8EC5D 
    USB:
      Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
      speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
      Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0 
      speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:8000 class ID: 0900 
      Device-1: 1-1.3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
      driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
      chip ID: 046d:c52b class ID: 0300 
      Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 9 rev: 2.0 
      speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
      Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
      chip ID: 05e3:0608 class ID: 0900 
      Device-1: 2-1.1:4 info: Corsair Gaming SCIMITAR PRO RGB Mouse 
      type: Mouse,HID driver: usbfs interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
      chip ID: 1b1c:1b3e class ID: 0300 serial: <filter> 
      Device-2: 2-1.2:6 info: Itron iONE RUSH Mechanical Keyboard 
      type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 
      speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 195d:2029 class ID: 0300 
      Device-3: 2-5:5 info: Chicony USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: Video 
      driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 04f2:b40a 
      class ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
      Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
      chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900 
      Device-1: 3-2:2 info: LaCie P9223 type: Mass Storage driver: uas 
      interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s chip ID: 059f:1070 class ID: 0806 
      serial: <filter> 
    Sensors:
      System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A 
      Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2600 
    Info:
      Processes: 193 Uptime: 9h 29m wakeups: 19 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: 
      gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1440 lib: 424 flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 
      running in: konsole inxi: 3.3.01

:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

  1. Please read this:
    How to provide good information
    and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…

  2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information… (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)

  3. How do you do that?

:+1:

P.S. If you enter a bit more details in your profile, we can also see which Desktop Environment you’re using, which CPU/GPU or Kernel, … you have without typing it every time

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I had the same problem. The culprit was the Firefox add-on “Video DownloadHelper”. Disable it and see if the freezing stops.

I’m not aware of having that add-on.

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    instead of like this:

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    (as that makes both our lives much easier)

  2. No need to do anything right now as I’m an editor here on this site and have fixed it for you already. However, in the future I might not see your post so review my edits by pushing the orange pencil above the post I just fixed. :wink:

  3. Please read this:
    [HowTo] reboot / turn off your frozen computer: REISUB/REISUO
    because if force means “pressing the power button for more than 5 seconds”, that’s a recipe for disaster! :sob:

  4. Please post the output to:

    smartctl --all /dev/sda
    smartctl --all /dev/sdb
    

:crossed_fingers:

output of sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda is:

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.9.16-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Samsung SpinPoint M8 (AF)
Device Model:     ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Serial Number:    S2Y4J9FDA16083
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0004cf 20b93fb62
Firmware Version: 2AR20002
User Capacity:    1.000.204.886.016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Mar 22 10:46:53 2021 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (12960) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 216) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       6
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0026   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023   090   086   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       3067
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3582
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   252   252   015    Old_age   Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       11208
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   097   097   000    Old_age   Always       -       3570
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       550
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   064   058   000    Old_age   Always       -       34 (Min/Max 8/42)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x002a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2191
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       309
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       86197

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      6650         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Completed [00% left] (0-65535)
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

output of sudo smartctl --all /dev/sdb is:

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.9.16-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Mobile HDD
Device Model:     ST1000LM035-1RK172
Serial Number:    WGS0QTS1
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0ad26fe39
Firmware Version: SBM3
User Capacity:    1.000.204.886.016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Mon Mar 22 10:51:34 2021 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x71) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        No Auto Offline data collection support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        No Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        ( 159) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:              (0x3035) SCT Status supported.
                                        SCT Feature Control supported.
                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   078   064   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       65049581
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   099   098   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       424
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   068   060   045    Pre-fail  Always       -       6655750
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1253 (251 130 0)
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       423
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032   100   100   099    Old_age   Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       2
189 High_Fly_Writes         0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   064   053   040    Old_age   Always       -       36 (Min/Max 23/36)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       231
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       424
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   036   047   000    Old_age   Always       -       36 (0 17 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       1252 (115 134 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2070055168
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       2390522501
254 Free_Fall_Sensor        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Oh thanks for the tip! Probably I’m missing something but… REISUB doesn’t work. I press and hold alt+Sysreq and type REISUB one key at a time but nothing happens (on my at the moment normally working pc).

  1. I’ve had to fix your output for readability again. Please press the orange pencil in the top right of your post to see what I changed.

  2. sda is in good condition but on the slow side.

  3. sdb is also fine and also slow.

    As you’re running with only 8GB of RAM and using a pretty hefty chunk of it, you’re probably running into swapping.

    Please provide the output to:

    free --human
    for szFile in /proc/*/status ; do
      awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 "\t" $3}END{ print "" }' "$szFile"
    done | sort --key 2 --numeric --reverse | more
    
  4. Where in the tutorial are you stuck? (you have to follow it line by line)

:thinking:

free --human:

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7,7Gi       1,8Gi       3,8Gi       498Mi       2,0Gi       5,0Gi
Swap:          2,8Gi          0B       2,8Gi

But yeah, sometimes swap is in use but as far as I can tell, barely the half of it is used then.

for szFile in /proc/*/status ; do
  awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 "\t" $3}END{ print "" }' "$szFile"
done | sort --key 2 --numeric --reverse | more

Output (after I just started my pc and read your reply):

zswap-shrink	
zswap1	
zswap1	
zsh	0	kB
zsh	0	kB
zsh	0	kB
yakuake	0	kB
Xorg	0	kB
xfs_mru_cache	
xfsalloc	
xembedsniproxy	0	kB
writeback	
wpa_supplicant	0	kB
WebExtensions	0	kB
Web	Content0	kB
Web	Content0	kB
Web	Content0	kB
Web	Content0	kB
watchdogd	
upowerd	0	kB
udisksd	0	kB
uas	
thunderbird	0	kB
tags.so	0	kB
systemd-udevd	0	kB
systemd-logind	0	kB
systemd-journal	0	kB
systemd	0	kB
systemd	0	kB
sudo	0	kB
startplasma-x11	0	kB
start_kdeinit	0	kB
sort	0	kB
(sd-pam)	0	kB
sddm-helper	0	kB
sddm	0	kB
scsi_tmf_4	
scsi_tmf_3	
scsi_tmf_2	
scsi_tmf_1	
scsi_tmf_0	
scsi_eh_4	
scsi_eh_3	
scsi_eh_2	
scsi_eh_1	
scsi_eh_0	
rtkit-daemon	0	kB
RDD	Process0	kB
rcu_tasks_rude_	
rcu_tasks_kthre	
rcu_preempt	
rcu_par_gp	
rcu_gp	
rcuc/3	
rcuc/2	
rcuc/1	
rcuc/0	
rcub/0	
pulseaudio	0	kB
Privileged	Cont0	kB
polkit-kde-auth	0	kB
polkitd	0	kB
plasmashell	0	kB
pamac-tray-plas	0	kB
org_kde_powerde	0	kB
oom_reaper	
nvme-wq	
nvme-reset-wq	
nvme-delete-wq	
NetworkManager	0	kB
netns	
msm_kde_notifie	0	kB
ModemManager	0	kB
mm_percpu_wq	
migration/3	
migration/2	
migration/1	
migration/0	
led_workqueue	
kworker/u9:1-i915_flip	
kworker/u9:0-i915-userptr-acquire	
kworker/u8:3-asus_wireless_workqueue	
kworker/u8:2	
kworker/u8:1-events_unbound	
kworker/u8:0-asus_wireless_workqueue	
kworker/3:2-events	
kworker/3:1H-kblockd	
kworker/3:1-events	
kworker/3:0H-kblockd	
kworker/3:0-events	
kworker/2:3-events	
kworker/2:1H-kblockd	
kworker/2:1-events	
kworker/2:0-mm_percpu_wq	
kworker/2:0H-kblockd	
kworker/1:2-events	
kworker/1:1H-kblockd	
kworker/1:1-events	
kworker/1:0H-kblockd	
kworker/1:0-events	
kworker/0:3-events	
kworker/0:2-rcu_gp	
kworker/0:1H-kblockd	
kworker/0:0H	
kwin_x11	0	kB
kwalletd5	0	kB
kthrotld	
kthreadd	
ksysguardd	0	kB
kswapd0	
kstrp	
ksoftirqd/3	
ksoftirqd/2	
ksoftirqd/1	
ksoftirqd/0	
ksmserver	0	kB
ksmd	
kscreen_backend	0	kB
konsole	0	kB
klauncher	0	kB
kintegrityd	
khungtaskd	
khugepaged	
kglobalaccel5	0	kB
kdevtmpfs	
kdeinit5	0	kB
kded5	0	kB
kdeconnectd	0	kB
kcompactd0	
kblockd	
kauditd	
kactivitymanage	0	kB
kaccess	0	kB
jfsSync	
jfsIO	
jfsCommit	
jfsCommit	
jfsCommit	
jfsCommit	
jbd2/sdb1-8	
jbd2/sda4-8	
jbd2/sda3-8	
irq/47-mei_me	
ipv6_addrconf	
idle_inject/3	
idle_inject/2	
idle_inject/1	
idle_inject/0	
gvfsd-fuse	0	kB
gvfsd	0	kB
gsettings-helpe	0	kB
grub-probe	0	kB
grub-mkconfig	0	kB
gmenudbusmenupr	0	kB
firefox	0	kB
file.so	0	kB
file.so	0	kB
file.so	0	kB
ext4-rsv-conver	
ext4-rsv-conver	
ext4-rsv-conver	
emacs	0	kB
edac-poller	
dolphin	0	kB
devfreq_wq	
dconf-service	0	kB
dbus-daemon	0	kB
dbus-daemon	0	kB
dbus-daemon	0	kB
cupsd	0	kB
cryptd	
crond	0	kB
cpuhp/3	
cpuhp/2	
cpuhp/1	
cpuhp/0	
ckb-next-daemon	0	kB
ckb-next	0	kB
charger_manager	
cfg80211	
card0-crtc2	
card0-crtc1	
card0-crtc0	
bumblebeed	0	kB
blkcg_punt_bio	
bash	0	kB
baloo_file_extr	0	kB
baloo_file	0	kB
awk	0	kB
awk	0	kB
avahi-daemon	0	kB
avahi-daemon	0	kB
at-spi-bus-laun	0	kB
at-spi2-registr	0	kB
ath9k-hwrng	
ata_sff	
asus_wireless_w	
agent	0	kB
acpi_thermal_pm	

Regarding REISUB, I forgot to edit the grub file. Thanks for pointing it out.

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You’re using zswap already!

:+1:

So that’s not it!

Please provide the output of:

journalctl --system --boot=-1 | tail --lines=50

:thinking:

Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dST1000LM024_HN\x2dM101MBB_S2Y4J9FDA16083\x2dpart2.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST1000LM024_HN-M101MBB_S2Y4J9FDA16083-part2.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:00:1f.2\x2data\x2d1\x2dpart2.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-ata-1-part2.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2did-wwn\x2d0x50004cf20b93fb62\x2dpart2.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50004cf20b93fb62-part2.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpath-pci\x2d0000:00:1f.2\x2data\x2d1.0\x2dpart2.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1f.2-ata-1.0-part2.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2dpartuuid-4219f3d3\x2d5ecc\x2dda49\x2d8d42\x2d9d20004d1de6.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-partuuid/4219f3d3-5ecc-da49-8d42-9d20004d1de6.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-sda2.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/sda2.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: dev-disk-by\x2duuid-a93c7ed8\x2da3dd\x2d4fb7\x2db42f\x2dcc9c03ae2fba.swap: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:51 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Deactivated swap /dev/disk/by-uuid/a93c7ed8-a3dd-4fb7-b42f-cc9c03ae2fba.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: home.mount: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Unmounted /home.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Reached target Unmount All Filesystems.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d2c718a1\x2dd001\x2d478a\x2d8e2b\x2dfeee1c743f30.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/d2c718a1-d001-478a-8e2b-feee1c743f30.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-d2c718a1\x2dd001\x2d478a\x2d8e2b\x2d
feee1c743f30 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Removed slice system-systemd\x2dfsck.slice.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped target Local File Systems (Pre).
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopping Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling...
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-remount-fs comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" host
name=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-fsck-root.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped File System Check on Root Device.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-fsck-root comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostn
ame=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syste
md" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: lvm2-monitor.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Stopped Monitoring of LVM2 mirrors, snapshots etc. using dmeventd or progress polling.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=lvm2-monitor comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=?
addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Reached target Shutdown.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Reached target Final Step.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: systemd-poweroff.service: Succeeded.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Finished Power-Off.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-poweroff comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostn
ame=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj==unconfined msg='unit=systemd-poweroff comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostna
me=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Reached target Power-Off.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd[1]: Shutting down.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit: BPF prog-id=23 op=UNLOAD
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit: BPF prog-id=22 op=UNLOAD
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit: BPF prog-id=25 op=UNLOAD
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop audit: BPF prog-id=24 op=UNLOAD
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices.
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes...
Mär 23 21:01:52 pfu-laptop systemd-journald[232]: Journal stopped

journalctl --system --boot=-1 | tail --lines=150 please as it doesn’t contain any pertinent information.

  • Please REISUB as soon as possible after your system runs into the problem to keep the log files small…

:+1:

Oddly enough, since I posted here, the issue has never occurred again and I used REISUB as a test only. Should I still post journalctl --system --boot=-1 | tail --lines=150?

Nah… If it re-occurs post another message (leaving this thread open)