Never looked into that log, I shall give it a shot

Hey I don’t even own a thunderbolt cable, so I can always disable that in my bios. But I’m wondering, is there a specific log I should be looking at that would most likely give me some input? Idk which logs are for what and definitely don’t know how to filter and manipulate the output to find what I’m looking for, but always willing to learn

Ahh so dmesg pretty much only collects info regarding kernel crashes or whatever? Do they usually retain stuff from the prior day or two? I haven’t used my laptop much today, so no new crashes

Thanks a lot. I have a few assumptions just based off what little I could interpret from the logs… When I check htop for CPU and ram usage, nothing really stands out as abnormal. Of course whichever browser I’m using is always the most ram hungry program. Now if I just did a reinstall of Debian 12, should that hypothetically fix the issue if it is an OS problem (which I believe it may be)?

Well then… I shall check it out

Right in the middle of a freeze right now, but the cursor still moves and the sound went muted. I’m pretty sure I saw errors before regarding pipe wire, pulseaudio, and I think another related program

Oh no, it came with windows initially but I never used it. I’ve had this laptop for like 3 years I believe?

Not a fan of the design at all… Well obviously now lol think they’ll eventually come loose off the motherboard and be useless. They’re almost there anyway. Maybe time to start planning for a budget, emergency system

Ahh I gotcha. Its most likely caused by me, NGL. I’ve been trying to experiment and explore a bit with computing and networking and the likes, so I probably have something conflicting or broken. I mean I’ve seen plenty of errors using journalctl right after a hard reset so that I could go backward from there, but none of it makes sense. Do you know anything about log analyzers? But then again analyzers can overcomplicate things too ala netdata lol I set that up and holy god I didn’t know what I was looking at lol I also have suspicion that mullvad might be playing a role in this. But again its difficult for me to put pieces together with limited knowledge about logs

Wow man that’s all very interesting. I do not think I can figure it out though. Its more complex than I thought it’d be.

Hmm looks like I have kernel 6.1.10 or something? I did hardware scans through some bios tools and it all scanned fine, but I don’t know how accurate those are…

uname -a 75xx 6.1.0-10-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Debian 6.1.38-2 (2023-07-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Gosh idk if that makes sense I’m taking pics of the output on my laptop with my phone and extracting the text, sorry for the ugly format lol

Uhmm for the most part its random. It was much less frequent the other day but not it’s happening more and more. And yup, tried all the CTL alt f1-all of them lol like I’m aware logs will probably give the best insight but I don’t know much about which log and what it all means plus they’re long as fuck. Maybe I should look into log analyzers?

Ahh I am running Intel drivers

Nice thanks alot

Yes I think its power related due to the loose and/or possibly damaged USB c ports which are part of the motherboard of course… No cheap fix there. This laptop has been on a slow decline. If I just reinstalled Debian or any other distro, would it fix the issue or is it more likely a system issue that will follow me regardless?

Very awesome. I haven’t dove in yet, but is it its own model or does it use gpt4 or something else?

And then what?

Man so I messed around with journalctl and just showed the past hour and TONS of errors and warnings, here are some pics of things that sound sorta familiar to what in described. There were so many other errors too

journalctl

Yup, like recovery mode? I haven’t been able to get it to boot right unfortunately