My laptop just froze twice this day

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I have few programs open:

  • Firefox - 8 tabs open with one as a zoom recording I am watching
  • 1password
  • steam - downloading a game - World of tanks
  • Discord opened on a chat
    The output of inxi command is
System:
  Host: fedora Kernel: 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: GNOME v: 46.4 Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ASUS TUF Dash F15 FX516PE_FX516PE
    v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: FX516PE v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: FX516PE.313 date: 11/30/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.9 Wh (77.5%) condition: 59.2/76.0 Wh (77.9%)
    volts: 15.8 min: 15.8
CPU:
  Info: quad core 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11370H [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 2726 min/max: 400/4800
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 555.58.02
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.2 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~144Hz
  API: OpenGL Message: No GL data available.
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek driver: r8169
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 64.78 GiB (6.8%)
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.31 GiB used: 7.49 GiB (48.9%)
  Processes: 408 Uptime: 2h 19m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.34

A link to the logs at the current timestamp Fedora logs

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Please use fpaste to make the logs available.
People do not like to download files as a general rule here.

Did the OOM killer feature in the logs.

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New logs

I did not know about fpaste so thank you for that.
The OOM killer was not it he logs.
I should note the my screen was not responding but the caps key light was turning on and off as I pressed it, I’ve seen it is something people search for in those situations

The memory aspect was decent

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Looks like there may have been an issue in the kernel triggered by power managerment?
Also a process core dumped and was anaylsed. But I cannot see which program was running.

You can use coredumpctl to see what has been crashing.

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TIME                          PID  UID  GID SIG     COREFILE EXE                  SIZE
Tue 2024-08-13 23:47:30 IDT 77023 1000 1000 SIGSEGV present  /usr/share/code/code 9.1M

This is what I get but the thing is that after the freeze I’ve created the log file and I tried to open it with vscode and then it crashes so I do not think this was the issue.

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When if freezes how are you getting into the system to investigate?
Can you use ctlr-alt-fX to get a console or are you ssh’ing in?

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Does the gui stop responding for a short time then come back to life?

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Something like that.
In the first half a minute the mouse was not responding at all but the audio from the zoom recording kept.
After that the mouse would do instant movements every few seconds (every 5 seconds the mouse will do all the movements I tried to do and then freeze for another 5 seconds)
This happen repetitively for about 3 or 4 minutes

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Are you using any external USB hubs/KVMs?

As mentioned, power management may be involved. BIOS updates often resolve power management issues with new kernels. You don’t want to waste energy fighting a solved problem. sudo fwupdtool get-updates lists available updates, but in some cases you have to use the vendor’s site.

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I do not use KVM or external USB.
Regarding the BIOS update, I’ve search in the asus website and there is an update, I’ll do it in an hour or so (it is not update-able using fwupdtool)

Can you explain where you saw a power management issue in the logs?

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I can now say that I’ve successfully updated my BIOS to the latest.
The thing is I think I’ve found the issue. It happens when I download a game using steam.
I’ve stumbled upon this issue in github Steam Issue which described what I’m having in somewhat of a precision.
Would love to know if you can help me

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Where have you installed steam from? rpmfusion or flatpak?

What that bug shows is that steam can nice a process to hi-proirity.
But a user cannot do that so somehow steam has admin rights.

I use steam from rpmfusion and have never seen this issue.

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I’ve installed from rpm fusion as it seems the best option,
I just tried reinstalled dota 2 which made my computer freeze just 2 hours ago (before I’ve updated the BIOS) and it was successful.

I really do not know what is happening.
The issue could be the ‘hi-priority’ process.
I am linking to the logs on the recent freeze
Recent freeze logs

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This is showing that the Nvidia driver is triggering kernel level bugs, including locking issues.

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And what does that mean and how can I fix it.

Something happened again Those are the logs after I’ve installed dota 2

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There are many instances in the logs with:

 /usr/bin/nvidia-powerd[...]: Failed to get prerequisites for nvidia-powerd

Try disabling and masking nvidia-powerd.

Edit: See Nvidia powerd service failing

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Hi guys, quick update.
I installed Dota 2 and it runs fine.
I could not understand the root cause for the issue but it seems be be working.

Something else that happened to me twice it that after I update the kernel, if I close the laptop, if I open it again after several minutes is screen is black and does not responding to mouse or keyboard click