I’ll add more ram info when my computer keeps running long enough find out
Issue
After 1-10 minutes of use, my computer screen freezes, and is unresponsive.
I’ve tried rebooting with the NVidia and built in driver, and still get the issue.
If it remains stable enough, I’ll try and get a log.
I’ve been running Fedora for only a few days, so it shouldn’t be any old software causing the issue
What should I do to fix this? Do I just need a fresh install?
What is the status when booted from the live install USB device?
Does it also hang / freeze?
Did such a freeze maybe interfere with the install so it did not complete properly?
If the PC does not freeze similarly with the install live media, then what was the status immediately after the install? Same? or no freeze?
Have you updated the system (sudo dnf update) since the install was completed? Did that complete properly?
The screen freeze may or may not indicate a full system freeze. Please try sudo dnf upgrade followed by sudo dnf distrosync and see what the result is.
After doing the above, please post the output of inxi -Fzx so we can see the full system specs.
When Live Booting with a USB with Ventoy the live media froze, but it worked fine after flashing it with Rufus.
I ran sudo dnf update when installing GPU drivers last
When running sudo dnf distorosync I got an output of
Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:15 ago on Tue 12 Jul 2022 16:32:34.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
I got the same output for sudo dnf upgrade.
Unfortunately my computer would lock up when attempting to open firefox, so I need to send a photo that I took instead. Photos from inxi output:Screenshots for Fedora forum - Album on Imgur
I am not sure why you did the screenshots? Was the system frozen? If the system was frozen how did you pan to different pages of that output?
You would have made things easier for us if you copied the text and pasted it here inside the </> Preformatted text tags on the toolbar above when posting.
It seems that you must be using a second computer to post if you are unable to use the browser on the computer that is ‘freezing’. You probably could use ssh to log into that computer and run those commands without being affected with the ‘freeze’ if it is firefox related.
I did not mention that because routinely the message about the command not available also suggests that you install the needed package. Did you read that?
It froze shortly after this, but it was still accepting commands through SSH.
I thought to have a looks at the remaining swap and ram, but they still looked fine.
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16139464 1484888 8734200 15456 5920376 14339344
Swap: 8388604 0 8388604
Could this be related to the GPU driver, or a broken install?
Can you try logging in from a tty? Press ctrl+alt+F3 and login from tty3 for example (enter your username and password). Given that you are still being able to use SSH while frozen, it looks like your DE (Gnome) is the one freezing not your whole system.
I suggest you to disable all gnome extensions at first.
You do have 2 GPUs. The inxi shows it is desktop with a gigabyte mobo. Usually those GPUs would indicate a laptop, but in your case it seems you are using 2 monitors, with different resolutions.
Are both monitors attached to the same GPU or is one attached to one GPU (possibly the mobo) and the other attached to the nvidia gpu?
On my system if I use two different gpus at the same time I see similar ‘hesitations’. The DE seems to need time to figure out where the data belongs and which gpu to send it to.
Since the ssh session was still active that implies that the ‘freeze’ may be DE or graphics related.
You also appear to be using gnome with wayland, which means the system cannot properly take advantage of the hardware acceleration on the nvidia GPU. There are several threads here about hardware acceleration and slow rendering when not used.
You say the builtin NVidia driver. Doesn’t Fedora use Nouveau unless you install NVidia from rpmfusion. The random freeze thing used to happen to me when I didn’t use NVidia, but only happened with nouveau.
