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Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 week ago by drillepind42@feddit.dk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] admin@scrapetacular.ydns.eu 1 points 3 days ago

@drillepind42@feddit.dk Is this on an old thinkpad or older intel processor? I once had an issue like this that turned out to be the processor not entering one of the cstates properly, the fix was disabling the cstate reponsible, I cant remember how to do this now, it involved editing a text file, but after this there were no problems

It was really difficult to debug because it would hard crash with nothing suspicious in the logs. I think it was a random hardware bug as it would occasionally happen in windows also. Try disabling idle states completely to see if that is the cause.