System crash once in day

viwal · 2015-01-19 13:27:53

Hi,

I have Levono Thinkpad X220 with i5, 8GbRam and mSATA 120Gb SSD running Archlinux with Cinnamon.

My problem is that I was running arch with i3 on my X220 about one year without any problem. Last week I reinstalled completely my system with Arch+Cinnamon to try this DE. From reinstall time, laptop is falling down to restart almost once a day. I can't really find anything in logs.
Usually it falls while I am working, so I have open programs - Sublime Text Editor, Chromium, Audacious, Python Prompt, Mongo shell and that is it (In python I am developing only web apps with flask so no big computing there)

Any idea where to look for any description or how to find the problem?
My ideas - problem is somehow in laptop temperature - usually conky shows me CPU temperature about 50-60 °C.
Second thing I would like ask, can problem be in cinnamon? I can't find any log from cinnamon session anyway to see what happen before fall.

Big thank for any advice or idea or so.

Vit

Last edited by viwal (2015-01-19 14:20:02)

Alad · 2015-01-19 14:50:50

i3 relies little on hardware acceleration (it has no compositor), so you won't notice driver issues as fast. Gnome & friends however have a big reliance on the GPU. Try disabling hardware acceleration in xorg.conf.d

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … tel_driver

Or switch to UXA as described in that same article. But I'd suggest to go back to i3.

Last edited by Alad (2015-01-19 14:54:03)

viwal · 2015-01-20 11:50:06

Thanks ALAD, that is good hint.
I will read all that wiki page and will see if I will find optimal solution.

Anyway it's pretty strange that cinnamon or Gnome's DE are taking that much performance that system can get stuck or crash.

About i3wm: don't tell me "go back" :-)... that is question I am asking myself almost every day, but I know I would missing some nice to have features in i3wm (graphic calendar, calc, display management). I know those are small things but I guess I am already too lazy to do every second action in console.
But who knows - I know i3wm is amazing WM and can be modified as hell.

Thanks anyway.

Vit.

Alad · 2015-01-20 20:10:14

The small apps like gsimplecal, gcalculator, arandr, etc., you can use in i3, though they may need floating rules (small effort, unless you often change apps). Anyway, you can try a "traditional" DE which relies less on hardware, like MATE or Xfce or something like that.

viwal · 2015-01-21 10:09:24

Yes, today I will try to install xfce4 and give it some days. If not even xfce4 will sit for me I will go back to i3wm. I used i3 almost 2 years so I guess now it's going to be hard to move away but anyway the fact is I was working such as system admin for several linux servers so I was playing with linux every day and that's why I set up my i3 conf as perfect as possible for my daily usage. Now I completely changed my daily duties and I work such as developer (mostly python web development base on databases) so no I need only to have opened my editor and few terms and I am to lazy to reconfigure features in i3

I will see how about xfce4 and than will paste here what is my last statement

Thanks anyway.

Vit.

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#1 2015-01-19 13:27:53

System crash once in day

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