Fedora Workstation 41 ~randomly~ freezing

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Hi fellow fedora community,

my pc is seemingly freezing randomly.
Frequency: Once a day (since I installed fedora some months ago)

The freezes are not while having any load like high-graphics games. The screen suddenly sometimes freezes when just watching a video on youtube, sometimes when the pc just started and I open thunderbird, sometimes when I lock the pc and come back to it after half an hour.

( Freeze = The screen is frozen in its last state, when running a video I can still hear the audio of it)
→ unplugging + plugging the monitor doesnt help
→ switching to tty doesn’t work
→ hard-resetting the pc is the only way out I know

The last freeze was today at 12:34 (in lock screen I only saw the frozen screen displaying the time 12:34).

After the freeze I restarted and tried journalctl -k -b -1 -p err
Return:

Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device not accepting address 5, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb 1-9: device not accepting address 6, error -71
Mar 02 11:43:15 fedora kernel: usb usb1-port9: unable to enumerate USB device
Mar 02 10:43:17 fedora kernel: 
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:6:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:4:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:2:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:0:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:2:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:4:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed to query display engine channel state: 0x0000c67e:6:0:0x0000000f
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: DP-2: Failed to disable DisplayPort audio stream-3
Mar 02 12:34:45 fedora.fritz.box kernel: nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: DP-0: Failed to disable DisplayPort audio stream-2

My System:

System:
  Kernel: 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: CROSSHAIR VI HERO v: Rev 1.xx
    serial: <superuser required> part-nu: SKU BIOS: American Megatrends v: 8702
    date: 08/10/2023
CPU:
  Info: 12-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
    rev: 2 cache: L1: 768 KiB L2: 6 MiB L3: 64 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3775 min/max: 550/4951 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3775
    2: 3775 3: 3775 4: 3775 5: 3775 6: 3775 7: 3775 8: 3775 9: 3775 10: 3775
    11: 3775 12: 3775 13: 3775 14: 3775 15: 3775 16: 3775 17: 3775 18: 3775
    19: 3775 20: 3775 21: 3775 22: 3775 23: 3775 24: 3775 bogomips: 177249
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: nvidia v: 570.86.16 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: none off: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-2 empty: HDMI-A-1
    bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 7920x1440 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DP-0 note: disabled pos: right
    model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81
    diag: 869mm (34.2")
  Monitor-2: DP-2 note: disabled pos: primary,center model: Samsung LC34G55T
    res: 2560x1080 dpi: 109 diag: 869mm (34.2")
  Monitor-3: HDMI-A-2 mapped: HDMI-1 note: disabled pos: left
    model: Acer G276HL res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 82 diag: 686mm (27")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.86.16 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo gpu: nvidia-settings x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
    xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 0b:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0d:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
  Device-3: Logitech G432 Gaming Headset
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 046d:0a9c
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:1539
  IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 2.04 TiB used: 760.58 GiB (36.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SNV2S2000G size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 29.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT240BX500SSD1 size: 223.57 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 185.96 GiB used: 31.26 GiB (16.8%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 352.8 MiB (36.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /home size: 1.58 TiB used: 728.97 GiB (45.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 32 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 69.0 C mobo: 25.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 44 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 1216 case-1: 0 case-2: 789 case-3: 0 gpu: nvidia
    fan: 0%
  Power: 12v: 12.16 5v: N/A 3.3v: N/A vbat: 3.14
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.25 GiB used: 5.54 GiB (17.7%)
  Processes: 503 Power: uptime: 17m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 33
    Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: gnome-terminal
    inxi: 3.3.37

I hope somebody can help me get rid of those freezes.
Thanks in advance! :slight_smile:

Kind regards
Jim

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I suggest you update the system bios if possible. It may be that the older bios from 8/10/23 has been updated and this problem could be fixed with an update.

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Thanks Jeff, yeah I’m using the bios from 8/10/23. Will update it today and give you feedback!

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I am having same problem.
In last 2 months there are often updates which tends to freeze system.
Last time i had random freezing problem about 2 weeks ago.
Nothing interesting could be found in dmesg or journal.
Everytime its fixed after ± 1 day by other updates, often by some gnome libraries.
System is freezing randomly, after start of pc it will freeze within 1 hour for 100%.
It looks completly random.

Tried running 6.13.5 also tried 6.12.15
but kernel update was couple of days ago so I don t think its kernel causing it.

Here is output of rpm -qa --last

wmctrl-1.07-38.fc41.x86_64                    Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
usermode-1.114-10.fc41.x86_64                 Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
perl-XML-Dumper-0.81-50.fc41.noarch           Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS-4.38-4.fc41.x86_64        Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
lm_sensors-3.6.0-20.fc41.x86_64               Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
libuser-0.64-11.fc41.x86_64                   Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
ipmitool-1.8.19-8.fc41.x86_64                 Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
inxi-3.3.37-1.fc41.noarch                     Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
hddtemp-0.3-0.57.beta15.fc41.x86_64           Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
freeipmi-1.6.14-3.fc41.x86_64                 Wed 05 Mar 2025 11:28:36
google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64   Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:23:35
kubectl-513.0.0-1.x86_64                      Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:23:31
google-cloud-cli-513.0.0-1.x86_64             Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:23:27
google-cloud-cli-anthoscli-513.0.0-1.x86_64   Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:23:12
fzf-0.60.2-1.fc41.x86_64                      Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:07
python3-boto3-1.37.5-1.fc41.noarch            Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
NetworkManager-ssh-gnome-1.2.13-5.fc41.x86_64 Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
NetworkManager-ssh-1.2.13-5.fc41.x86_64       Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
nbdkit-ssh-plugin-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64        Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
nbdkit-curl-plugin-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64       Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
nbdkit-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64                   Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
lua-libs-5.4.7-3.fc41.x86_64                  Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
lua-5.4.7-3.fc41.x86_64                       Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:19:06
python3-botocore-1.37.5-1.fc41.noarch         Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:18:58
nbdkit-selinux-1.40.5-2.fc41.noarch           Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:18:58
nbdkit-server-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64            Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:18:57
nbdkit-basic-plugins-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64     Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:18:57
nbdkit-basic-filters-1.40.5-2.fc41.x86_64     Wed 05 Mar 2025 10:18:57
tuned-ppd-2.25.1-1.fc41.noarch                Wed 05 Feb 2025 23:33:01
tuned-2.25.1-1.fc41.noarch                    Wed 05 Feb 2025 23:33:01
fluidsynth-libs-2.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64           Wed 05 Feb 2025 23:33:01
fluidsynth-2.4.3-1.fc41.x86_64                Wed 05 Feb 2025 23:33:01

Here is output of inxi -Fzxx

System:
  Kernel: 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: GNOME v: 47.4 tk: GTK v: 3.24.43 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM
    Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ROG Zephyrus G16 GU605MZ_GU605MZ
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GU605MZ v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: GU605MZ.327 date: 01/15/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 67.2 Wh (81.9%) condition: 82.1/89.8 Wh (91.4%)
    volts: 16.6 min: 15.9 model: ASUS A32-K55 serial: N/A status: not charging
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MX Keys Wireless Keyboard
    serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 16-core (6-mt/10-st) model: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H bits: 64
    type: MST AMCP arch: Meteor Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 1.6 MiB L2: 18 MiB
    L3: 24 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4800:5100:3800:2500 cores: 1: 400
    2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400
    12: 400 13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400 17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400
    21: 400 22: 400 bogomips: 135168
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe-LPG ports: active: DP-1,eDP-1
    empty: DP-2,DP-3,DP-4 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:7d55
  Device-2: Shinetech USB2.0 FHD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-7:4 chip-ID: 3277:0051
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 6000x1600 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary,right model: Idek Iiyama PL3493WQ
    res: 3440x1440 hz: 75 dpi: 109 diag: 871mm (34.3")
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 pos: left model: Samsung ATNA60DL01-0 res: 2560x1600
    hz: 240 dpi: 191 diag: 405mm (15.9")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.0 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
    direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Arc Graphics (MTL)
    device-ID: 8086:7d55
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland device: 0
    type: integrated-gpu driver: N/A device-ID: 8086:7d55 device: 1 type: cpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
  Info: Tools: api: glxinfo,vulkaninfo gpu: intel_gpu_top, lsgpu,
    nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake-P HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e28
  API: ALSA v: k6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Meteor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:7e40
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet driver: cdc_ncm type: USB rev: 2.1
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1.3:9 chip-ID: 0b95:1790
  IF: enp0s20f0u1u3c2 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0033
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3 lmp-v: 12
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 3.68 TiB used: 583.54 GiB (15.5%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Crucial model: CT2000T500SSD8 size: 1.82 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 30.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS002TEJ9X101N size: 1.86 TiB
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 38.9 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 149.71 GiB used: 22.38 GiB (14.9%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p4
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 19.3 MiB (3.8%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2
  ID-3: /home size: 1.37 TiB used: 471.68 GiB (33.5%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/dm-7 mapped: luks-16610434-c978-4645-bfaa-166bcd2eccae
  ID-4: /var size: 184.6 GiB used: 89.47 GiB (48.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-8
    mapped: luks-a2f89828-5ac6-427e-a7d5-5217047bf7e5
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/dm-0 mapped: fedora-swap
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.75 GiB used: 8.9 GiB (28.9%)
  Processes: 604 Power: uptime: 19m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
    target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 225
    Compilers: clang: 19.1.7 gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: ptyxis-agent inxi: 3.3.37

It also freezed while writing this post.
Stability of fedora 41 has become big issue for me and I am considering moving back to ubuntu.

Have anyone any idea ?

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This indicates the linux kernel is still running. Does the CapsLock or NumLock key have a status light? If so and the status light is responding, the issue is probably with the display system.

Hard resets carry a risk of filesystem corruption. If you have enabled ssh access from another system you may be able a) collect more details of the issue and b) restart cleanly.

Such issues are likely to affect other linux distros so searching for the issue with similar hardware and linux kernel and Nvidia versions may be useful if a UEFI/BIOS update doesn’t solve the problem.

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Seems like the update has actually fixed it. That was easier than I thought.
Thank you very much!

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I’m sad that I didn’t think about ssh-ing onto the machine to try to gather more info.
I’ll keep that in mind for future bug research!
Thank you <3

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@jonasgl
Maybe you should update your bios?
Or open another post, since your freezes seem pretty different to me.
And don’t forget to add the output of $journalctl -k -b -1 -p err (executed in the session after your pc froze).

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I think I have latest bios, I have dualboot and I usually start windows once a week and check updates, also for bios.

After last update, yesterday, it stoped freezing when using 16:9 displays.
Only freezed on ultra wide display. So it looks its partly fixed.
Also tested disabling variable refresh rate, but it did not make difference.

So i think this thread can be closed and I will open new if I find something interesting to share.