weary star
Computer has been freezing recently during gaming sessions. (despite my whopping 32gb of ram)
So... recently I did software update via update manager.
Suddenly my taskbar randomly disappeared.
I press windows key and try to restart.
I get... this chain of messages on top of a black screen.
What do I do? Is it safe to hard reset with power switch?
and it's still going except now the fan stopped
Update. I have hard restarted.
Seems... fine?
however grub menu showed Ubuntu instead of Linux mint like it usually does.
I since restarted again and that part was resolved.
Still I am unsettled. Any ideas what happened here?
outer prawn
I suspect the harddrive is full or root partition only mounted as read only.
weary star
free space on my main drive is 550gb and on my backups partition (for timeshift) is 60gb left
outer prawn
Have you restarted the system after update?
weary star
yep, and it worked fine after restart
outer prawn
Now it works normally?
hexed plinth
Computer has been freezing recently during gaming sessions. (despite my whopping...
is possibly getting corrupted or an indicator of a bad storage device
input/output error is a bad thing
bad driver/kernel version, overheating, poor connection?
what file system?
wonder if it has to do with temperature
weary star
I'll investigate if it happens again.
my file system is uh.. ext4? I think? the normal linux mint type?
i ran sudo dmesg
it's a very large output
the outpot is.. mentioning nintendo and joycons near bottom
small excerpt
[60705.201577] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: joycon_enforce_subcmd_rate: exceeded max attempts
[60710.604497] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: joycon_enforce_subcmd_rate: exceeded max attempts
[60788.907932] audit: type=1400 audit(1742788801.271:128): apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" class="cap" profile="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=182087 comm="cupsd" capability=12 capname="net_admin"
[60810.316659] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 512 dropped IMU reports
[60810.316665] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=4623 avg_delta=9
[60812.455746] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 7 dropped IMU reports
[60812.455751] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=239 avg_delta=26
[61130.559419] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 4384 dropped IMU reports
[61130.559425] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=43855 avg_delta=10
[61288.638342] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 1656 dropped IMU reports
[61288.638348] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=14917 avg_delta=9
[61789.652075] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 35 dropped IMU reports
[61789.652080] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=334 avg_delta=9
[61938.874875] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: compensating for 4 dropped IMU reports
[61938.874880] nintendo 0005:057E:2009.001C: delta=54 avg_delta=9
must be my 8bitdo controller...
What is the command i should be checking? I'm googling and one person mentions fsck?
hexed plinth
fsck is for fixing corruption - if you can boot, chances are you're fine
ext4 should be perfectly fine
any loose connections or lousy storage device placement choices?
weary star
so my computer froze again today. but the exact trigger was alt tabbing from a game to firefox
game music continued to play
What do i do in this situation?
computer temp wasn't more than usual. Ranged 86C to 90C (with a cooler under it)
and my RAM is 32gb...
rain heath
ctrl-alt-backspace to force logout
a dead freeze where even Caps Lock wont toggle the light needs a forced shutdown with power button
weary star
how do i investigate next time it happens? besides ctrl+alt+backspace
and what if that doesn't work? (but caps lock works?)
it's a weird freeze where at first a window will work but wont close if i try to close it. hard to explain
rain heath
try alt+F4 on the window, n give it a while
another thing could use: ctrl-alt-t (for terminal), then xkill then click on offending window/program
weary star
alt+f4 would not work
i mean next time it happens ill try all this
but i would not be able to change windows
so i can try bringing up terminal but it wouldnt work
alpine hill
alt+f4 would not work
Try to hop into a tty using ctrl+alt+f5
You need to press f5 so you may have to click the FN key depending on your keyboard
Also if your keyboard has a sysrq button you can send a reboot call to the kernel directly
If all that fails then it's likely to be either bad ram or a bad hard drive
The only way I know to check the health of the hard drive is via the S.M.A.R.T. info on the KDE device info app
There should be a way to access the smart data but I'll leave that to someone else as I don't know
Tho if the system is responsive at other places it might be something wrong with your installation, perhaps the DE most likely or the display server
rain heath
If all that fails then it's likely to be either bad ram or a bad hard drive
The...
The only way I know to check the health of the hard drive is via the S.M.A.R.T. info on the KDE device info app
alpine hill
> The only way I know to check the health of the hard drive is via the S.M.A.R.T...
There should be a way to access the smart data but I'll leave that to someone else as I don't know
rain heath
yeah it's in the dots menu of the Disks app I mentioned
or smartmon-tools package if preferring CLI
hexed plinth
computer temp wasn't more than usual. Ranged 86C to 90C (with a cooler under it)
sheesh
rain heath
computer temp wasn't more than usual. Ranged 86C to 90C (with a cooler under it)
that's awful really.
unless ur playing some real mofo' taxing games.
weary star
the temp was while gaming on minimum settings of guild wars 2.
what could be making it hot though?
the temp was temp1 of CPU
rain heath
improperly pressed-down heat sink. too much paste. both. seized internal fan.
weary star
but this is a new laptop and fans are clean. I know because I opened it a while ago
rain heath
maybe just very heavy game process
weary star
I did take a pic of internals
this was BEFORE I uploaded the SSD which Linux mint is running on. I did not take a pic with it installed but it should be plugged and screwed in properly.
anything off?
rain heath
ssd wont do anything for CPU heat
weary star
no oddities here then?
rain heath
if it runs in the 50s to 70s on most other things, then it's fine
weary star
without the game it is 51C
rain heath
if issues as per title, revert to a timeshift before the issue.
and hold back any kernel updates
weary star
I don't have a time shift from before. long story short messed things up that were resolved and then I set up time shift correctly
you mean I shouldn't software update? shouldn't updating Kernel resolve? I assumed
rain heath
sometimes breaks stuff
u can use grub: advanced options for Mint n boot from older kernel
if it runs fine, then delete new kernel before rebooting.
alpine hill
this was BEFORE I uploaded the SSD which Linux mint is running on. I did not tak...
Umm... I have a few concerns about the design of the heat system
Why is one of the cooling lines so close to the nvme?