For some months my Manjaro desktop computer has had a tendency to just suddenly freeze. I find myself unable to change to my terminals (ctrl-alt-f2, ctrl-alt-f3, etc.) in order to reboot. I am left with no alternative but to turn my computer off and thence turn it on again.
Just now I attempted to use journalctl to see if the files in
/var/log/journal/751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc/
… would show me what might have caused my computer to crash at 2:18am (UTC+11) this morning. It had also similarly crashed only 7 minutes prior to that at 2:11am. I found that journalctl was not able to give me any useful output:
[[james@vaasa 751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc]$ journalctl --since="2021-10-27 02:17:00" --until="2021-10-27 02:19:00"
An error was encountered while opening journal file or directory /var/log/journal/751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc/system@0005c64d13fbed9d-55ff3cc75e1a8a00.journal~, ignoring file: Input/output error
Journal file /var/log/journal/751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc/system@ef3fd59f261b4f84b9cd3fdb6e8a66ca-0000000000000001-0005cc7f09891be2.journal corrupted, ignoring file.
An error was encountered while opening journal file or directory /var/log/journal/751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc/user-1000@665d7ae6ed9c4297ba4c435ee62a4d55-00000000000005ab-0005cb746f52ab86.journal, ignoring file: Structure needs cleaning
Journal file /var/log/journal/751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc/system@0005cb5ed52aadff-3c903d5217ee9bed.journal~ is truncated, ignoring file.
-- Journal begins at Sat 2021-08-14 21:40:58 AEST, ends at Wed 2021-10-27 11:14:39 AEDT. --
-- No entries --]
I am not even certain if the problem lies with my software or with my hardware.
Could anyone suggest how I could move forward from here?
Thank you for your attention.
(Update 12:38 [+11] 27/10/21:)
As I think was suggested below, I am posting the output of ‘inxi -Fazy’ below:
[james@vaasa 751971a463ce4e0b979566f891d7c6dc]$ inxi -Fazy
System:
Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=b06ad26f-b96a-4fca-94af-e0cbcc63001c ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: N/A wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME H310M-K R2.0 v: Rev X.0x
serial: <filter> UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 0418 date: 09/13/2018
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i3-8100 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake
note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: B (11) microcode: EA
cache: L2: 6 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 28808
Speed: 3600 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3600 2: 3600
3: 3600 4: 3600
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
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: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:128b class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,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: 70 size: 698x393mm (27.5x15.5")
diag: 801mm (31.5")
OpenGL: renderer: NV106 v: 4.3 Mesa 21.2.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0f class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Microdia Webcam Vitade AF type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 0c45:6366 class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 894.26 GiB used: 332.47 GiB (37.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: B1C2 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37480G
size: 447.13 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 1103 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 96 GiB size: 94.24 GiB (98.17%) used: 56.77 GiB (60.2%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /home raw-size: 299.12 GiB size: 293.43 GiB (98.10%)
used: 269.75 GiB (91.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb4 maj-min: 8:20
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 20 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 214 Uptime: 2h 38m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.57 GiB
used: 3.22 GiB (20.7%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 alt: 10 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1994 lib: 487 flatpak: 0
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.08