System gets stuck

I am a little confused by some of data in the inxi

  • XFCE desktop
  • Xwayland

I may be missing something - I didn’t know XFCE was capable of using Wayland - which just triggered the thought - what if you logout - do you have an option switch session to Xorg?

Now that I remember CUDA and Nvidia - I am not so sure - as my suggestion relies on the prebuilt nvidia driver modules for the kernel.

Personally I would test it but since you have to ask - I withdraw the suggestion.

Should you want to test if the kernel is somehow flooded with events - you should be able to gather some intel as suggested by @TriMoon.

For information only

You should not do this if you are in any way uncomfortable with the process

My process of troubleshooting by testing the 6.1 kernel would involve the following change to the system

One will have to accept the replacement of the kernel specific nvidia package in favor of the nvidia-dkms package

sudo pacman -Syu linux60-headers dkms nvidia-dkms

Then restart the system - to test the dkms modules.

If the result is as expected continue with

sudo pacman -Syu linux61 linux61-headers

And restart to test 6.1 kernel.

If for any reason this creates issues - one can issue an emergency reboot using REISUB - then hold the shift key while booting to display the GRUB menu → navigate advanced options → select the 6.0 kernel.

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