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Getsu

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Registered: 2024-05-08

Posts: 2

Laptop freezes with caps lock blinking.

Hi! this is my first post.
I've had this huge mountain of problems lately. I recently switched from Windows and so far it's a love hate relation.

The first problem I've had is the laptop freezing and the caps lock blinking. This used to happen in Windows as well except for the caps lock blinking. In Windows, my laptop would freeze when changing from dGPU to iGPU whenever the power would cut off, followed by a blue screen and a restart. Actually that was the primary reason to switch to Linux but it seems like i need to do quite a few things here.
Back to Linux, this problem occurred a few times where plugging out my laptop would freeze. To solve I would just hold the power button for a force shutdown. This problem now grew more as I'm suffering from laptop freezing while shutdown, while booting and while updating my packages.
I got away from my laptop freezing once but the next time, I suffered from few major packages not installing properly which led to me not being able to log in to my laptop.  I fixed it by force updating the packages with arch-chroot. After doing this twice, my /boot partition was full which is 500M, then my third time I used arch-chroot to update packages without mounting the /boot partition.
I'm sure I did something wrong and before I clean the partition I wanted to know what I did wrong. Let's say the /boot partition problem didn't exist for now, I'm on UEFI and it seems like I need GRUB to use another kernel which was recommended here on Forums.

First thing we need to figure out what caused the /boot partition to fill up, then we need to clean the partition and proceed with the installation of a boot loader and kernel. Then if the issue of laptop freezing still persists then we shall see lol.

So, what's the first step that I should do? Any replies would be really helpful.

This is the output of "sudo df -h"
Filesystem             Size        Used    Avail     Use%     Mounted on
dev                          7.4G       0           7.4G     0%          /dev
run                          7.5G       6.0M    7.5G      1%         /run
efivarfs                   128K      41K       83K       33%       /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme0n1p2  468G     100G    345G     23%       /
tmpfs                       7.5G     461M     7.0G     7%         /dev/shm
tmpfs                       7.5G     462M     7.0G     7%         /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M    511M     0            100%    /boot
tmpfs                       1.5G     48K        1.5G      1%          /run/user/1000

The laptop itself is Asus TUF A15.

Sorry if there was any mistakes from me creating this post. I'm still new and just learning. Thanks!

Getsu

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Registered: 2024-05-08

Posts: 2

Re: Laptop freezes with caps lock blinking.

Alright so while updating my packages I ran into an error saying I had no space on my boot directory, so I googled a bit and saw it was okay to remove fallback.img so I removed initramfs-linux-fallback.img or actually copied it somewhere else as I was a bit afraid and changed something in /etc/.../....conf so that there won't be no fallback in the future. Surprisingly! All the problems I had got fixed! I had 2 errors while booting, that's gone. The caps lock blinking and the system freezing hasn't happened so far either. Idk what exactly was the problem, my guess is that the boot partition was filled up? well removing that one thing solved it in my case. Yippie!

Next I'm planning to allocate more space to boot and switch to GRUB to use another better kernel.