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BigPandaPete

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Registered: 2025-06-22

Posts: 4

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

Hi everyone!

Apologies for being inactive - I’ve been away from my desktop for a while. Unfortunately, the system freezes are still occurring.
The freezes happen so abruptly that the system doesn’t log any errors - nothing shows up in journalctl or dmesg. My current suspicion is that newer kernels (post-6.15) might be handling power management in a way that conflicts with my RX 7900 XTX GPU.

To test this, I swapped in my backup RX 7700 XT, and the system has been running flawlessly - no freezes at all. So this issue might be specific to the 7900 XTX for some reason.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 70,026

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

My current suspicion is that newer kernels (post-6.15) might be handling power management in a way that conflicts with my RX 7900 XTX GPU.

Yup, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p2250945

Possibly https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2249799 ?

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emfoli

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Registered: 2025-06-26

Posts: 3

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

Hey @klutzer

Yes, the freezing is gone after I upgraded to 6.15.6. I have a session up for more than 10 days now using kernel 6.15.6 and no issues.
emfol@zenbooks14-em
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OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: ASUS Zenbook S 14 UX5406SA_UX5406SA 1.0
Kernel: 6.15.6-arch1-1
Uptime: 10 days, 15 hours, 47 mins
Packages: 1024 (pacman), 5 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.3.0
Resolution: 2880x1800
DE: GNOME 48.3
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: tmux
CPU: Intel Ultra 7 258V (8) @ 4.800GHz
GPU: Intel Arc Graphics 130V / 140V]
Memory: 24927MiB / 31562MiB
Disk (/): 25G / 125G (21%)
Battery0: 60% [Discharging]
Font: Adwaita Sans 11 [GTK2/3]

dilroopgill

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Registered: 2025-08-02

Posts: 2

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

I have the same issue on cachyos, the only kernel thats completely stable with no freezes is 6.12.36-2-cachyos-lts
https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/freezing- … s/12462/16 Discussion post I made there with logs, seen the same issue on fedora, and i personally experienced the same issue on endeavour (arch) and Mint.  6850mxt and ryzen 6900hx

Last edited by dilroopgill (2025-08-02 01:41:39)

dilroopgill

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Registered: 2025-08-02

Posts: 2

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

Ill get a stutter than a total freeze requiring a manual restart using the power button, nothing else will work.   On both gnome and kde, tried them both and reinstalling.

Last edited by dilroopgill (2025-08-02 01:43:27)

klutzer

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Registered: 2025-06-26

Posts: 8

Re: Complete total freeze since 6.15 kernel

It seems to be fixed since 6.15.9-2 for me. At least after upgrading to that version (and versions above), I didn’t get any complete freezing anymore.