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arch_kk_linux

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Registered: 2017-02-17

Posts: 54

Laptop freezes frequently

Hi My laptop hangs frequently, and couldn't able to figure out wether it happens due to firefox or something else.

Is there any method to see what exactly causing my system to hang??

Please find the dmesg log over here.

dmesg log

my lspci log:

[kk@k ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT HD Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB xHCI HC (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series HECI #0 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series HD Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev e4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev e4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev e4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series USB EHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 93)
03:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun LE [Radeon HD 8550M / R5 M230]

Last edited by arch_kk_linux (2019-11-08 10:27:58)

xse

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Registered: 2019-01-08

Posts: 36

Re: Laptop freezes frequently

Hi,

You can try to start gather informations like so, this probably won't tell you exactly what's the issue, but it can help you pinpointing it

• Look at logs around the time it freeze, is there something recurrent in there ?

• Is it something recent ? Like if you never had freezes before it might be worth trying an LTS kernel for example.

• Hardware-wise, try a memtest for good measure and also check temperatures, laptops are known to overheat easily.

• What "type" of freeze is it ? is it only X or the whole thing ? Is it only for a few seconds and then it continues like nothing happened or do you have to restart it completely ?

• The good old trial and error technique: "maybe it's related to my graphic driver but i don't have any logs, let's try using mesa for a few days and see if it freezes"

In your dmesg we can lines about an mce hardware error, that might be worth investigating (there's tools for those) but i don't know enough to be able to tell you if that can be related to your freezes.

Last edited by xse (2019-11-08 10:54:24)

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arch_kk_linux

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Registered: 2017-02-17

Posts: 54

Re: Laptop freezes frequently

Thanks for your Inputs. Machine-check exception tool is new for me (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … _exception), I will make use of It.

Last edited by arch_kk_linux (2019-11-19 08:12:06)

Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 642

Re: Laptop freezes frequently

In my case it is most probably due to iwlwifi driver, as it only happens when I'm using WiFi. I haven't had this issue while I was using Ethernet connection.

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