My Fedora 42 installation also keeps freezing randomly.
I’ve posted various questions on NotebookLM to try and understand what the error might be, but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on the cause.
Some say it could be NVIDIA (and I have an RTX 4070 with driver version 570.153.02 installed), some say it might be GNOME (I’m on version 48), others suggest Wayland (I have the version updated by Fedora 42), some mention WiFi (which I’ve disabled), others Bluetooth (also disabled), and some think it’s the power profile (I’ve set it to ‘balanced’).
But so far, nothing has worked.
I’m attaching yesterday’s logs. It really looks like the NVIDIA drivers are involved, but I’m not sure what to do next.
Thanks.
journalctl -k -b -1 -p 4 --since "$(date -d 'yesterday' '+%Y-%m-%d') 21:30:00" --until "$(date -d 'yesterday' '+%Y-%m-%d') 23:00:00" | less
May 28 22:21:27 Glamdring kernel: #1 #3 #5 #7 #9 #11 #13 #15
May 28 22:21:27 Glamdring kernel: device-mapper: core: CONFIG_IMA_DISABLE_HTABLE is disabled. Duplicate IMA measurements will not be recorded in the IMA log.
May 28 22:21:28 Glamdring kernel: nvme nvme0: missing or invalid SUBNQN field.
May 28 22:21:28 Glamdring kernel: tpm tpm0: auth session is active
May 28 22:21:29 Glamdring kernel: hid-generic 0003:1532:0258.0006: No inputs registered, leaving
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: spi-nor spi0.0: supply vcc not found, using dummy regulator
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: nvidia: module license taints kernel.
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel:
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 570.153.02 Tue May 13 16:34:43 UTC 2025
May 28 20:21:30 Glamdring kernel: nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols nvUvmInterfaceDisableAccessCntr from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
May 28 20:21:31 Glamdring kernel: nvme nvme0: using unchecked data buffer
May 28 20:21:32 Glamdring kernel: razerkbd 0003:1532:0258.0006: No inputs registered, leaving
May 28 20:21:42 Glamdring kernel: platform INT3515:01: deferred probe pending: Serial bus multi instantiate pseudo device driver: Error creating i2c-client, idx 0
May 28 20:23:46 Glamdring kernel: show_signal_msg: 54 callbacks suppressed
We need more details. Please provide the output from running inxi -Fzxx in a terminal (as pre-formatted text) so we understand your hardware and also do others with similar issues and hardware will find this topic with a web search.
How did you install Nvidia drivers?
When the system “freezes” does the key light respond? Can you get a text console with ?
How did you install razerkbd?
The RPMFusion Nvidia Howto tells you how to switch between nouveau and Nvidia drivers. If the issue persists using nouveau, it is probably not the Nvidia GPU.
When the system “freezes” does the key light respond? Can you get a text console with ?
I can’t do anything except press the reset button. I can’t even switch to another terminal (but I’m realizing now as I write that CTRL+ALT+F2 doesn’t change terminals either)
The RPMFusion Nvidia Howto tells you how to switch between nouveau and Nvidia drivers. If the issue persists using nouveau, it is probably not the Nvidia GPU.
talking to a 6 year old how would you explain what you wrote?