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Cant shutdown the system!(Fedora crashed) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been facing this issue since yesterday, but basically at some point the system becomes insanely slow, and the restart and shutdown options disappear from the menu, tty3-7 dont work, it freezes at the shutdown -now command(at which point I just manually cut the power(bad Idea I know)),

but today I stuck around as my system got insanely borked, eventually freezing up and giving me the screen above. the problem shows up after I wake it up from suspend but not always: My system specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) x86_64 
Host: TECRA R940 PT439V-03U02WAR 
Kernel: 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64 
Uptime: 23 mins 
Packages: 2282 (rpm), 43 (flatpak) 
Shell: bash 5.2.32 
Resolution: 1600x900 
DE: GNOME 47.1 
WM: Mutter 
WM Theme: Adwaita 
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: gnome-terminal 
CPU: Intel i7-3540M (4) @ 3.700GHz 
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M 
Memory: 1845MiB / 7879MiB

here are the journalctl entries that I think are relevant

entries for events 40 min before that.

and this is from when it happened earlier in the day

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, this is a ~15 year old laptop?

The first two things that immediately come to mind when you're kernel panicing is bad ram, and bad cpu temperatures.

Thermal paste doesn't last forever, and it's worth checking if your CPU or GPU are overheating, and repasting if so.

And, as always, a memtest is a quick and easy step to rule that out - I'd say half the "weird crashes" I've ever seen ends up being bad ram and well, at least it's cheap and easy to replace?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is not a malfunctioning hardware thing. I faced the same issue for a few days on silverblue, where my 2 year old zen3 laptop would slow down to a crawl and eventually the gnome-shell would freeze. Somehow it resolved itself somewhere between kernel and gnome-shell + mutter updates