Hello, I’m writing this from my android so I can’t provide any logs, but I’ll try to describe my problem as well as I can.
I’m getting random freezes while doing anything (completely unresponsive PC (Keyboard/Mouse), only the music keeps playing so I have to do a hard shutdown), I tried reinstalling Manjaro (did it literally 8 times today, the installation itself is buggy so yeah) and as far as I can tell - the amount of freezes was constantly the same.
It usually happens more often while I’m playing music on Deezer (tried 3 other apps for Deezer too - freezes still happen)
Last time it happened I had those apps open:
- Opera (stable)
- Sublime Text (dev - 4.x)
- Deezer (aur, community/deezer)
- Thunar (not root)
Deezer was playing the music as always, I was building something in sublime and it just froze - that’s it.
I’m running a bit older hardware because my “new” PC died but I don’t think that’s much of a problem, it may be the lack of RAM tho (6GB)
The hardware is, something like, Intel Core 2 Duo, 240gb HDD, 6GB of RAM and nvidia gtx 550ti 1gb vram
What I tried (nothing worked):
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ALT + F1-5 (didn’t show up the console)
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REISUB (still didn’t work)
Even magic reBoot (Alt + SysRq + B) didn’t do a thing, like even NUMPAD toggle was unresponsive on the keyboard itself
I got out of a freeze only once today but I don’t remember what I did, I think that I just clicked random things while it’s been frozen…
I’m a newbie, didn’t have time to study linux because I’ve been trying to fix those freezes for a whole day… But what I remember that I started having freezes after I installed base-devel, yay and other common apps, it didn’t freeze before that
P.S. I have 8gigs of swap, but even now RAM is capped at 35% at full load
Hello! Thank you! It’s 1:15 AM now so I hope it’s not a problem if I get a bit of sleep before posting the info
Of course! You could have just waited to respond when you were ready. 
Good night!
Hi, I am back!
inxi
System:
Kernel: 5.10.36-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=75213745-b9ba-4fa2-8eb5-7029e32a0fc2 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=b7ea3b13-1b85-4df9-8050-8bbd676961c1
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq 6000 Pro MT PC
v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3048h serial: <filter> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard
v: 786G2 v02.03 date: 10/19/2015
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 5.74 GiB used: 1.19 GiB (20.8%)
Array-1: capacity: 16 GiB slots: 4 EC: None max-module-size: 4 GiB
note: est.
Device-1: XMM1 size: 2 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3 detail: synchronous
bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: JEDEC ID:02 FE
part-no: EBJ21UE8BDF0-DJ-F serial: <filter>
Device-2: XMM2 size: No Module Installed
Device-3: XMM3 size: 2 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3 detail: synchronous
bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: JEDEC ID:80 AD
part-no: HMT125U6TFR8C-H9 serial: <filter>
Device-4: XMM4 size: 2 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3 detail: synchronous
bus-width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: JEDEC ID:80 2C
part-no: 16JTF25664AZ-1G4G serial: <filter>
Array-2: capacity: 16 GiB note: check use: Flash Memory slots: 1 EC: None
max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
Device-1: SYSTEM ROM size: 4 MiB speed: N/A type: Flash detail: non-volatile
bus-width: 2 bits total: 2 bits manufacturer: 2 part-no: N/A
serial: <filter>
CPU:
Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 Duo E7500 socket: LGA775 (XU1 PROCESSOR)
note: check bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn family: 6 model-id: 17 (23)
stepping: A (10) microcode: A0E cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 3 MiB bogomips: 11709
Speed: 1596 MHz min/max: 1596/2933 MHz base/boost: 2933/6000 volts: 1.2 V
ext-clock: 1066 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1596 2: 1596
Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts est flexpriority fpu fxsr ht lahf_lm lm
mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nopl nx pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni pse pse36
pti rep_good sep sse sse2 sse4_1 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx
vnmi vpid xsave xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled
Type: mds
status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1244 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Dual Mode Camera (8006 VGA) type: USB
driver: hid-generic,usbhid bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 0c45:8006 class-ID: 0301
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 38
size: 1280x720mm (50.4x28.3") diag: 1469mm (57.8")
OpenGL: renderer: NVCF v: 4.3 Mesa 21.0.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801JD/DO HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3a6e
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GF116 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0bee
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 8-2:2 chip-ID: 0c76:1612
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.36-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.28 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 2100 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10de
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp0s25 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full 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 found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 7.9 GiB (3.4%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: HD254GJ size: 232.89 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0002 scheme: MBR
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 224.08 GiB size: 219.51 GiB (97.96%) used: 7.9 GiB (3.6%)
fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: 75213745-b9ba-4fa2-8eb5-7029e32a0fc2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: b7ea3b13-1b85-4df9-8050-8bbd676961c1
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: Microdia Dual Mode Camera (8006 VGA)
type: Keyboard,Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c45:8006 class-ID: 0301
Device-2: 3-2:3 info: SINOWEALTH Game Mouse type: Mouse,Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 256mA chip-ID: 258a:1007 class-ID: 0301
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 8-2:2 info: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: Audio,HID
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1
speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c76:1612 class-ID: 0300
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 44.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 1110
Info:
Processes: 163 Uptime: 8m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: pacman: 1082 lib: 300 flatpak: 0
Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.04
mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
What should I do now?
I just turned on my PC, it didn’t freeze last night (last time I booted it) so I do not have any logs (I think at least)
If REISUB doesn’t work, it could be a hardware issue. Either way there’s a kernel panic in that case
Have you tried the NVIDIA proprietary driver? It’s possible it’s an issue with the open source driver.
I installed it like when I posted the comment before yours and It didn’t freeze so far ( I didn’t do anything resource heavy yet tho )
I’ll close the thread if it fixed the issue
If REISUB doesn’t work, it could be a hardware issue.
Windows used to work just fine without any freezing so I doubt that…
