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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: The laptop doesn't turn off every other time

The main point was that the frequency does not allow to assume a regression.
There's still gonna be *something* that's different when this occurs - suspend or hibernation cycles? Low or full battery charge? Some external device being used?

Finding that pattern will be key to addressing this - tedious as it sounds

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Registered: 2026-02-22

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Re: The laptop doesn't turn off every other time

The main point was that the frequency does not allow to assume a regression.
There's still gonna be *something* that's different when this occurs - suspend or hibernation cycles? Low or full battery charge? Some external device being used?

Finding that pattern will be key to addressing this - tedious as it sounds

I followed your suggestion and removed the additional kernel parameters. My current `/etc/default/limine` configuration now looks like this:

MAX_SNAPSHOT_ENTRIES=10
KERNEL_CMDLINE[default]+=root=PARTUUID=4a94c7ce-f378-4b0d-9ed9-1e026506aa3b zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs quiet

One positive thing I've noticed so far is that the laptop seems to boot and shut down a little faster.

Regarding the circumstances in which the issue occurs, previously I experienced it while the laptop was plugged into AC power. Yesterday, however, it happened while running on battery power.

Honestly, I haven't been able to find any pattern or regularity. After creating this forum thread, I was shutting down the laptop almost every 30 minutes, trying to reproduce the issue, but it simply wouldn't happen. At some point, I even thought the problem had somehow resolved itself.

There is another interesting detail: I have a second ASUS laptop, also running Arch Linux with Limine. It uses the default kernel parameters without any additional tweaks. Its hardware is quite different: an Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB of RAM, and an HDD. It runs XFCE, whereas my main laptop uses KDE Plasma.

Interestingly, the same shutdown issue occurred on that laptop twice within approximately two weeks.

So far, I haven't found any clear connection to the desktop environment, power source, or kernel parameters.

besstsoft@gmail.com

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Registered: 2026-02-22

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Re: The laptop doesn't turn off every other time

Sometimes I even think about switching to Ubuntu, but honestly, I've become so attached to Arch Linux that I don't really want to leave it. I like it so much that I install it everywhere and even recommend it to my friends.

But seriously, I think switching to another distribution might not necessarily solve this problem. I suspect I could run into similar issues on Ubuntu or Fedora as well.

I'd rather understand what's causing the problem and find a proper solution than simply switch distributions.