Having constant freezes in fedora 42 in Dell Inspiron

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Hi ,

I am having constant freezes on my fedora 42 on my dell inspiron , I have a dual booted setup of fedora 42 and Windows 11 . I had done a bit of research about the issue on the fedora forums and other places where a similar problem have been reported but none of them seem to work for me

This is the output of “journalctl -b -p 3” :

kernel: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_TZ.ETMD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20240827/psargs-332)
kernel: ACPI Error: Aborting method _SB.IETM._OSC due to previous error (AE_NOT_FOUND) (20240827/psparse-529)
gdm-password][1998]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
systemd[2017]: Failed to start app-gnome-gnome\x2dkeyring\x2dpkcs11-2476.scope - Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
systemd[2017]: Failed to start app-gnome-xdg\x2duser\x2ddirs-2500.scope - Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
systemd[2017]: Failed to start app-gnome-user\x2ddirs\x2dupdate\x2dgtk-2698.scope - Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
kernel: i2c_hid_acpi i2c-DLL09D9:00: i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (14/60418)

System information :

Hardware Information:

  • Hardware Model: Dell Inc. Inspiron
  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 × 8
  • Graphics: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
  • Disk Capacity: (null)

Software Information:

  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 48
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.14.6-200.fc41.x86_64

Am having two kernels installed :

  • kernel-6.14.6-200.fc41.x86_64
  • kernel-6.14.6-300.fc42.x86_64

I actually upgraded my system from fedora 41 , that’s why i have a fc41 kernel , im currently using it, as frequency of freezing is more in the fc42 to the point the system becomes unusable, sometimes it freezes right after the boot.

As im having a dualbooted setup and by deafult windows uses RAID ON , this was causing issues with linux and it was also showing in journalctl command , i fixed it by making windows compatible with ACHI , but i still have freezing issues .

Please help me , i have been struggling with this issue for a long time and i have tried many fixes , i really want to switch permanently from windows but this freezing issue is making that shift really difficult.

Thanks for your replies

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On this Dell Latitude, journalctl -p 3 gives all but the two kernel: ACPI ... messages. Please describe what you mean by “freezes”: does the CapLock light stop responding, can you get a text console with <Ctrl-Alt-F3>? Have you tried “Alt-SysRq/PrtScr” (Dell often has non-standard SysRq key sequences, and some models may not support SysRq)?

“Random” freezes are often a symptom of hardware issues. You should check the RAM (install memtest86+ which add a boot entry and run the tests overnight for a couple nights)
and the “heath” of your storage using GsmartControl, Gnome Disks, or command-line smartctl.

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Hi George,

Thanks for replying, by freezing i mean nothing is working , the capslock key is not responding and im not able to get a console using Ctrl-Alt-F3 and the SysRq is also not responding, Everytime this happens i have to force shutdown by holding the power button.

I’ll check the health of the RAM and storage and info and inform.