Hi all, sorry if I post this the wrong place.

I have a laptop running mint with qtile which sometimes freezes. To the point where nothing responds and I need to kill it. I’ve tried: sudo journalctl But I don’t get any information which helps me.

Can anyone help to debug it?

  • user28282912@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    23 hours ago

    I would look at these things first.

    1. Try another DE, something like XFCE. See if the problem persists. Sometimes swapping compositors or display managers can help too.
    2. Run memtest. Failing memory can definitely cause lock-ups.
    3. Lastly I’d look at graphics drivers. If you’re running Nvidia, switch from nouveau to the proprietary driver or vice-versa and see if that helps.
    • drillepind42@feddit.dkOP
      2·
      22 hours ago

      Great idea. I will try some time with XFCE. One of the challenges is that I don’t know how to trigger the crash, and sometimes it can be days, other times multiple times within an hour.

      • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        18 hours ago

        Boot memtest

        Leave it to do it’s thing overnight. That will at least check for badly failing RAM.

        I’ve run this on machines that I thought were ok, only to find… they weren’t.