Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages
On Thursday 03 June 2021 02:49:32 Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> Debian Buster here. My laptop is aging and has only 4BG Ram, however
> that should be sufficient for a couple of instances of Firefox (no
> streaming, etc) and an instance of Chromium.
>
> It has happened a few times in the last few days that the system
> becomes irresponsive, the screen is frozen, I can't shut X down nor go
> into text mode. I can't hear any drive activity. The only way out is
> to shut the laptop from the power button and reboot. I then check in
> /var/log/messages and there is absolutely nothing that can give me any
> hint.
>
> I thought I knew how to troubleshoot a crash but it appears I don't.
>
> Lenovo diagnostic tools can't find anything wrong.
>
> The only possible culprit is maybe tlp [1]? Maybe there is something
> in power management that makes the laptop freeze? Or maybe the RAM is
> gone/going and the diagnostic tools are not picking it up?
>
Have you run memtest86 ?, that might be informative.
>
> [1] https://linrunner.de/tlp/
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