Today for the second time in the last couple months I ran into a extremely frustrating and catastrophic error with EndeavourOS. Basically what happened is that while browsing the internet the system freezes up and then crashes. When I restart it seems that the memory has gotten slightly corrupted because it gives me errors and has me manually run fsck. Last time I managed to get the system started again enough to pull data but it was extremely and increasingly unstable. I think it’s happened again tonight because I got a crash out of the blue with some similar symptoms. If I can’t get this to stop happening there’s just no way I can continue using this OS.
For some more specifics - my computer is a Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th generation. I don’t remember ever having issues like this when running Windows before I first installed EndeavourOS or after the first time it happened. I’ve also had some firmware issues with the battery not being recognized and the system shutting down because it thinks the battery isn’t present, but I fixed those with a firmware update - although they first presented after this error first appeared and weren’t fixed until I had updated some firmware. The first time the error occurred things started freezing up in the GUI, programs crashed then refused to start, then the console returned “Segmentation Fault” (I think, it might have been another fault) for any input and the light in my caps lock key started flashing. This time Firefox crashed, so I tried updating the system with pacman -Syu and halfway through that the GUI started freezing up and the caps lock light started flashing. Then the computer crashed to a black screen and didn’t change after several minutes so I powered it off. On startup it said something about corrupted files and had me run fsck, which let it start. When I tried updating again pacman gave me errors, so I fixed it with a page from Arch Wiki. Then I restarted and tried using my computer normally, but then Firefox crashed again and then the whole computer crashed so I think the damage has been done again.
I know this description is long and not terribly specific, but I’m just really frustrated and tired of these issues. I really don’t want to go back to Windows but with errors like this there’s no way I can justify using this OS as a daily driver so I really want to figure out what’s wrong. Pleas ask any questions to help diagnose the problem, and I’ll keep careful track of any issues I run into from here on out.
Thanks for any help,
WaryAndroid