For the past couple of months, I have been hopping from distro, to distro in search for “the one”, but there is an issue that is following me no matter which one I choose (tested Manjaro, Fedora and now EndeavourOS), so it is unlikely a distro specific issue. During normal activities, the system randomly freezes or, more rarely, the active session terminates itself and I get thrown out to the login screen.
I have just learned how to include system logs, so I did only log the last occurrence of this issue (the situation where I simply get thrown out to the login screen with no freeze):
journalctl log with filter for “fail”: https://0x0.st/HrKG.txt
hardware info: https://0x0.st/HrKk.txt
Additional information about the “freeze” issue, which is not logged above (I will log it once it happens again):
Sometimes my mouse seems to be functional during the event, but the screen is frozen
Once it happened with a video playing - it did not stop playing after freeze, but I couldn’t interact with it even “randomly” clicking
From other threads I learned about the REISUB reboot method, so I do not do hard reboots anymore
Please let me know if any important information is missing - on the next occasion (happens once a day or two, depending on how much do I use the computer) I will correct myself if that will be the case.
PS: I am quite a newbie still - while I understand an importance of self education and the capabilities of Google, I will greatly appreciate if you could avoid using jargon or abbreviations of terms that a newbie might not know (at least without explanation). Nevertheless, if you will use it anyway, I will still be grateful for your attempt to help me.
Can I check it somehow? Record different logs instead of those that I provided?
I thought I attached the correct logs. As I said, I am a noob in that regard. I tried to provide data best to my knowledge, which is very shallow for now. What kind of logs should I attach then when you think about “system logs” if not journalctl?
No, thank you for that suggestion - a little cleaning should be a good idea whether it is the cause of my issues or not.
This is for a full log of the previous boot session (-b -1). For older boot sessions, change the number accordingly, like 1=“1 before current”, 2=“2 before current”, etc.
OOM activity was only an example. We can’t really say what is the real reason, so full log would be better (no filters). As I said, interpreting the logs is not easy, but we hope that some experienced viewer might get a useful overview.
Okay, It took some time since I haven’t been using my laptop too much recently, but today I have recorded 2 crashes again (there were 3 in total). A couple of notes:
I haven’t checked the state of the laptop interior yet - for the same reasons why I have not been using it too much recently - life. I am sorry for not taking care of it, I will soon.
First crash happened during casual usage of laptop, sudden freeze and nothing could be done. I saved the systemctl logs for this one here (last 10 minutes): first crash
The second crash happened after extended time of the laptop being folded. Usually it wakes up normally after opening it, but this time it was freezed right away. I have not recorded systemctl for this one.
The third crash has happened just a couple of minutes after reboot from the second one (reboot done with REISUB method). This time it was not a freeze, but just a sudden session termination (it logged me off). I recorded last 10 minutes of systemctl immediately. third crash
My hardware is linked in the first post of this thread.
I hope the information provided is good enough, if not - please advise me and I will try to do better next time.