My system freezes keeps regularly.It happens about once a day.I have windows 10 on a separate SSD, and while I haven’t experienced freezes when running windows, I usually only use windows for games for about two to three hours.Twice I was dropped into emergency shell and after looking up the error messages displayed and used a live Manjaro to rebuild Initramfs. From what looked up, i think this is due to hard rebooting the PC instead of a direct effect of the main issue.
Here is my inxi -Fxxxz
System:
Kernel: 6.12.12-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.6 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP 285 G3 MT Business PC v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8434 v: 11 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 3VA15EA#ABU uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.61
date: 12/11/2023
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics bits: 64
type: MCP smt: <unsupported> arch: Zen rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB
L3: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2816 high: 3494 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 3494 2: 3494
3: 2852 4: 1427 bogomips: 27956
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series
/ Radeon Mobile Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 38:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:15dd class-ID: 0300
temp: 28.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5 driver:
X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi
gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 model: Dell P2319H serial: <filter>
res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 96
size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") diag: 584mm (23") modes: max: 1920x1080
min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.4-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
(radeonsi raven LLVM 19.1.7 DRM 3.59 6.12.12-2-MANJARO)
device-ID: 1002:15dd
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP
Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 38:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:15de class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 38:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 38:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.12-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: f000 bus-ID: 2e:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp46s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter driver: mt7601u type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 148f:7601
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: wlp21s0f0u5 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 808.57 GiB used: 74.43 GiB (9.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: X400 M.2 2280 128GB size: 119.24 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 2012 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: KC45
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Hikvision model: HS-SSD-C100 240G size: 223.57 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 588 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 81.71 GiB used: 15.96 GiB (19.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
mapped: luks-bbcc8493-c29a-468e-a439-6f67d65bebe5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 448 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 15.62 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 mapped: luks-657ca79e-9605-465a-a3ef-a93070acb7e6
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.2 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 6.69 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (65.7%)
Processes: 299 Power: uptime: 15h 39m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: deep wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical
Packages: 1125 pm: pacman pkgs: 1107 pm: flatpak pkgs: 18 Compilers: N/A
Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.37
Here is journalctl for the boot that froze
journalctl --boot=-2 --priority=3 --catalog --no-pager
Feb 20 15:00:10 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd4000-0x99bd4fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd4000 4000
Feb 20 15:00:10 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd8000-0x99bd8fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd8000 4000
Feb 20 15:00:19 blizz-pc lightdm[897]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u16:0:11 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:3:847 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:4:908 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:6:4837 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:14:15 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u16:0:11 blocked for more than 245 seconds.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:3:847 blocked for more than 245 seconds.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:4:908 blocked for more than 245 seconds.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:6:4837 blocked for more than 245 seconds.
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:16:18 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u16:0:11 blocked for more than 368 seconds.
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: INFO: task kworker/u17:3:847 blocked for more than 368 seconds.
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: Not tainted 6.12.12-2-MANJARO #1
Feb 20 15:18:21 blizz-pc kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
Feb 20 15:26:32 blizz-pc kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_atomic_check [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:73:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out
Here is boot journalctl from non-freezing seeesions
journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=3 --catalog --no-pager
Feb 20 15:28:05 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd4000-0x99bd4fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd4000 4000
Feb 20 15:28:05 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd8000-0x99bd8fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd8000 4000
Feb 20 15:28:16 blizz-pc lightdm[893]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb 20 15:30:57 blizz-pc dbus-broker-launch[698]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Feb 20 15:30:57 blizz-pc dbus-broker-launch[698]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' failed.
Feb 20 15:30:57 blizz-pc systemd-cryptsetup[2497]: Device luks-bbcc8493-c29a-468e-a439-6f67d65bebe5 is still in use.
Feb 20 15:30:57 blizz-pc systemd-cryptsetup[2497]: Failed to deactivate 'luks-bbcc8493-c29a-468e-a439-6f67d65bebe5': Device or resource busy
Feb 20 15:30:57 blizz-pc systemd-cryptsetup[2512]: device-mapper: remove ioctl on luks-657ca79e-9605-465a-a3ef-a93070acb7e6 failed: Device or resource busy
Here is from a pervious boot journalctl. Its three boots before the freeze but i am not sure if the system freezed that session or not. I found this command when was looking up how to view system logs
journalctl -x -p3 -b3
Feb 18 04:28:54 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd4000-0x99bd4fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd4000 4000
Feb 18 04:28:54 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd8000-0x99bd8fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd8000 4000
Feb 18 04:29:09 blizz-pc lightdm[916]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb 18 04:29:18 blizz-pc systemd-coredump[1447]: [🡕] Process 1293 (python3) of user 1000 dumped core.
Module [dso] without build-id.
Module [dso]
Module [dso] without build-id.
Module [dso]
Module [dso] without build-id.
Stack trace of thread 1293:
#0 0x000079e63ed7c8ab n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#1 0x000079e63d93de33 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#2 0x000079e63d967851 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#3 0x000079e63d890f19 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#4 0x000079e63d8916be n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#5 0x000079e6352ea00e n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#6 0x000079e63521c4bb n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#7 0x000079e63521ab98 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#8 0x000079e6352090a2 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#9 0x000079e6352206e9 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#10 0x000079e63d8af67e n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#11 0x000079e6352e8a0e n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#12 0x000079e63522aca2 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#13 0x000079e63522bf99 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#14 0x000079e635d1c44b n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#15 0x000079e63c78090f n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#16 0x000079e63c7813d4 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#17 0x000079e63c78147f n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#18 0x000079e63bba85a6 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#19 0x000079e63bbad44b n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#20 0x000079e63bba6633 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#21 0x000079e63bba6a90 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#22 0x000079e63bba6df0 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#23 0x000079e63bbbf7a3 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#24 0x000079e63bafa5d6 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#25 0x000079e63bb0864a n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#26 0x000079e63bbbbd7b n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#27 0x000079e63bc8fddf n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#28 0x000079e63bc90ab8 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#29 0x000079e63baad45e n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#30 0x000079e63bafa5d6 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#31 0x000079e63bb0864a n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#32 0x000079e63baa4afb n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#33 0x000079e63bc8fddf n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#34 0x000079e63bc90ab8 n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#35 0x000079e63bd9379d n/a (n/a + 0x0)
#36 0x000079e63bc8fddf n/a (n/a + 0x0)
ponse buffer. [mem 0x99bd4000-0x99bd4fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd4000 4000
ponse buffer. [mem 0x99bd8000-0x99bd8fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd8000 4000
Here is a journalctl from a freezing session with an older kernel, Linux version 6.6.75-2 instead of Linux 6.12.12-2 and it still froze
journalctl --boot=-1 --priority=3 --catalog --no-pager
Feb 22 13:50:31 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd4000-0x99bd4fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd4000 4000
Feb 22 13:50:31 blizz-pc kernel: tpm_crb MSFT0101:00: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI region does not cover the entire command/response buffer. [mem 0x99bd8000-0x99bd8fff flags 0x200] vs 99bd8000 4000
Feb 22 13:50:45 blizz-pc lightdm[946]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Feb 22 13:51:51 blizz-pc systemd-coredump[2015]: [🡕] Process 2010 (csd-datetime-me) of user 0 dumped core.
Stack trace of thread 2010:
#0 0x00007fd40e5e9741 g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x3a741)
#1 0x00007fd40e5cff20 g_object_unref (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x20f20)
#2 0x00007fd40e4b2555 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x53555)
#3 0x00007fd40e4bacac n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5bcac)
#4 0x00007fd40e4bc66a n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5d66a)
#5 0x00007fd40e51f257 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc0257)
#6 0x00007fd40e4bd287 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5e287)
#7 0x00005634f7a3418b n/a (/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings-daemon/csd-datetime-mechanism + 0x318b)
#8 0x00007fd40e274488 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27488)
#9 0x00007fd40e27454c __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2754c)
#10 0x00005634f7a342c5 n/a (/usr/lib/cinnamon-settings-daemon/csd-datetime-mechanism + 0x32c5)
Stack trace of thread 2012:
#0 0x00007fd40e2eabe2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9dbe2)
#1 0x00007fd40e2dee33 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x91e33)
#2 0x00007fd40e2dee74 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x91e74)
#3 0x00007fd40e359a06 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x10ca06)
#4 0x00007fd40e51f327 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc0327)
#5 0x00007fd40e4bba55 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5ca55)
#6 0x00007fd40e4bbab2 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5cab2)
#7 0x00007fd40e4f1be6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x92be6)
#8 0x00007fd40e2e270a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9570a)
#9 0x00007fd40e366aac n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x119aac)
Stack trace of thread 2011:
#0 0x00007fd40e36488d syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x11788d)
#1 0x00007fd40e4edbe0 g_cond_wait (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x8ebe0)
#2 0x00007fd40e48498c n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x2598c)
#3 0x00007fd40e4f4237 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x95237)
#4 0x00007fd40e4f1be6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x92be6)
#5 0x00007fd40e2e270a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9570a)
#6 0x00007fd40e366aac n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x119aac)
Stack trace of thread 2013:
#0 0x00007fd40e2eabe2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9dbe2)
#1 0x00007fd40e2dee33 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x91e33)
#2 0x00007fd40e2dee74 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x91e74)
#3 0x00007fd40e359a06 ppoll (libc.so.6 + 0x10ca06)
#4 0x00007fd40e51f327 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xc0327)
#5 0x00007fd40e4bd287 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5e287)
#6 0x00007fd40e722bc4 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x113bc4)
#7 0x00007fd40e4f1be6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x92be6)
#8 0x00007fd40e2e270a n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9570a)
#9 0x00007fd40e366aac n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x119aac)
ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
░░ Subject: Process 2010 (csd-datetime-me) dumped core
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/support
░░ Documentation: man:core(5)
░░
░░ Process 2010 (csd-datetime-me) crashed and dumped core.
░░
░░ This usually indicates a programming error in the crashing program and
░░ should be reported to its vendor as a bug.
Feb 22 13:58:48 blizz-pc kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_low timeout, signaled seq=51436, emitted seq=51438
Feb 22 13:58:48 blizz-pc kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process cinnamon pid 1202 thread cinnamon:cs0 pid 1245
Looking into similar issues
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/random-system-freezes/46390
Ros said they reset and reconfigured the bios and it solved the freezes
My bios version is F.61. About an year ago I updated the bios on windows when i first got my PC and did run into an issue(I think the bios updated got interpreted) where OS didn’t boot unless I booted into compatibility mode and not always.This was on Linux mint. I took the PC to my cousin and it booted with a monitor with HDMI input. The monitor I was using was VAGA with input, My PC had only one HDMI output and so i used a HDMI to VAGA converter but after an update it would boot. I figured this by switching different monitors with PCs. I later switched the monitor with a HDMI one and haven’t run into any issue. I bring this up to link it with the bios stuff by Ros.I would rather not update the bios in case something worst happens. The current bios for my system in HP is F.64 Rev.A
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/system-is-randomly-freezing/64950
freggel.doe here suggested to try an older kernel and said that the mouse cursor being able to move is indication of a still working machine and suggested to ping it from another device or ssh into it or switching to another tty.
the user problem description plus they also use they use Cinnamon too.
I did try an older kernel
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/howto-reboot-turn-off-your-frozen-computer-reisub-reisuo/3855
freggel.doe warns against hard-rebooting but to try this.but the keyboard is not responsive at all. The post was looked without a solutions.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/random-system-freezes-in-fresh-installations/31927
kabeer_shariff had the same problem with Intel CPU laptop and found a solution by intel_idle.max_cstate=1 to the boot parameter but it makes the CPU run very hot and reduces hardware lifespan. I dont know the equivalent for amd CPU Parameter. They did upgraded to older kernels but it didn’t fix it.someone posted two Bugzilla report which was later fixed for newer kernels.both of those were for intel. Someone on one of the Bugzillas said there machine freezes when doing medium to heavy load work
possible causes i have looked at
-Discord
-Low RAM
-Low Swap
-Kernel version
what i tired
-Used browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory in Firefox(I open a lot of tabs in Firefox without including web apps through the webapp manager).
-Used Discord webapp manager instead of the flatpakge versions
-Reinstalled Manjaro and manually partitioned it to have swap file of 17 GB(without hibernation) instead of the automated partitioned install which comes with swap size of 8 GB
-Installed and used an older kernel
EDIT: The PC just froze and looked at the journalctl without any priority set. Juts before the freeze the logs are filled with
Feb 24 05:32:34 blizz-pc wpa_supplicant[949]: wlp21s0f0u5: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS
Feb 24 05:34:24 blizz-pc systemd-journald[379]: Under memory pressure, flushing caches.
Feb 24 05:34:26 blizz-pc systemd-journald[379]: Under memory pressure, flushing caches.
Feb 24 05:35:27 blizz-pc wpa_supplicant[949]: wlp21s0f0u5: RSN: Group rekeying completed with 20:e8:82:f9:3f:8c [GTK=CCMP]
I am not sure if that is the cause of the freezes or the result of them
Update: I switched to Linux mint because the freezes regularly and since no one responded I didn’t have a choice. However, they started to happen on Mint too. Just today three times, twice I though it was because I opened too many tabs and too many app, but this was after along time. I have 8 GB RAM at 80% and 17 GB Swap file at 30 or even more for a few days and it didn’t freeze. Only once I installed and started using Obsidian Note taking app did the freezes begin, But I don’t think its Obsidian because in Manjaro I didn’t have Obsidian. The latest time it froze, i was looking at my RAM usage from a applets in the panel(When the system froze, I don’t even see the ram usage when or right before froze due to being on other windows at the time so i installed an applet) and it was about 3.4 GB and there weren’t that many tabs or apps(I did have to hard reboot the PC during the other freezes so maybe that’s the cause)
This lead to me to think this is a hardware issue or possible a bios issue.
Update: I have the Bios to F.64 from F.61. It still froze again just now, so i think the problem is not the Bios(For ppl who want to update the bios i have left some instructions below). The RAM was at 5.8 GB out of 6.7 GB(the 8G after integrated GPU and kernel used their part) and 5 to 6 GB of swap file of 17 GB. I did have a lots and I mean lots of tabs open plus only-office, Three obsidian vaults open(electron) and discord web-app and electron version open at the same time plus a text file so it was probably warranted, i was just hoping for it be a slow starting lag so i can close/save programs as it starts. As it is, its sudden which the main problem with keyboard still being unresponsive aside of the caps lock light working for a bit.
The Bios update for HP PC
Hp support provides the bios update as an .exe file beside the HP assistant and it itself install another program which then gives you the three option
-Update from within windows
-Create recovery USB
-unload .bin to folder on PC
I recommend the USB option. the application will choose the windows first by default if you just press next. Don’t panic, the it give the button to restart.I panicked and it allow me to stop the update only giving me a restart button and waiting for me to restart until it restart by itself. It will then give you 15 sec to click cancel to cancel the update process.
To update, power of the PC and insert the USB if you haven’t. Power up gain while holding B and you will see the menu. The B button can be different and you can also try V. At the begging i press B and windows key together and it made an alarm noise so i press the power down again and use only B
Update 2: I have disabled touch-pad(someone suggested to disable it in the settings even if you don’t have a touch-pad) and swapped my new mouse with my old one and so far there hasn’t been a freeze for 24 hours. I am not sure which solution of those two fixed it but i think its the mouse since i think it started around the time i changed the mouse. I did several hardware test from the bios menu plus one mentest and they all passed, plus i removed an reinserted the RAM stick.Will update if this fixes it after a few days.
Update 3: Just now it froze again but I was at 6.8 GB RAM which would have been fully RAM since the available RAM is 6.7 GB and swap file was 6 GB out of 17 GB. I am not sure if running out of physical RAM should lead to freezes even if the swap file is only at 35% full
I do believe that changing mouse and disabling touch pad have helped since usually the system freezes at around 5.7 GB
