I’m witting this from my laptop in an emergency. I was working on some spreadsheets on my 2007 iMac when suddently the machine froze… it simply stopped working.
I turned it off, waited a bit, turned it on again, got to the lock screen, logged in, then it froze again. I tried the same different times with the same results even starting from different kernel versions, even “rescue” mode.
Since the files I’m working on are local, formatting is not an option (i don’t want to lose the progress). So, what can Ido?
Chroot into the system from a live usb and look for journalctl | grep kernel
Maybe Journalctl -b and so on
And use a pastebin and provide a link here so someone can look into those logs so they can actually help you out.
I managed to enter my session using the terminal and copy the local files I need to a USB.
So, I installed Fedora from scatch singe not even reseting gnome to default did anything. All was working alright untill I installed broadcom-wl and it froze again.
That made me go back to a debian-ased system. Ubuntu 23.04 this time. I installed it with the proprietary Broadcom drivers and, to my surprize: WiFi is nowhere to be found… even after several updates and reboots.
This made me ask if it was a hardware issue from the very problematic broadcom ‘Airport’ card… looks like I’lll have tu buy a USB Wifi adapter after all.