Hi.
I can’t write much about WHAT happened, also because very little is what I can tell about what FACTUALLY happened. This problem came fast and left little trace of how it broke what.
As a PRE-preamble:
PLEASE, be gentle with me, I am very ill AND want to maintain anonymity.
I NEED to leave a LARGE preamble to avoid repeating myself later, and to avoid getting messages which would just worsen my health.
If the things I am having problems with were easy to understand and fix, I’d’ve got something from Google and already fixed iton my own, making a P.S.A. later on for other users (because Google is useless).
I am here to get PC help, not to get someone to call an ambulance from the other side of the globe.
I am not healthy enough to word this better, and I don’t have TIME to.
I am sorry for the raw parts of this post (as in “uncooked”, I do not use crude language) and the bad presentation, but I can not focus on that. I MUST focus on getting help. I hope you can understand me…
Preamble
I want THIS to be cemented in your minds, please:
I am a chronically ill, autistic man, and my PC just off’d itself.
I would simply reinstall Fedora KDE 44 from 0, that’s easy, but things aren’t so easy. Even the install USB freezes and crashed if I push it with Fireforx (more details later).
The problem could be entirely unrelated to Fedora, but I need help, AND NOW, to solve this.
I am very lucky to have multiple secondary PCs[2], and that all the IMPORTANT DATA is saved both on the OG drives and multiple locations, because otherwise I’d now be hospitalized due to an heart attack.
I can not “get better help from somewhere/someone else” because:
- I am the most knowledgeable one of the family.
- IF there was a good PC shop I’d’ve already gone there. There isn’t.
- It’s not a “mental health problem”, it’s a “an important thing of mine just broke” problem. I NEED TO FIX IT. IF the problem is one of the NEW components which costed MANY HUNDREDS OF EUROS I have to follow the insurance procedure, and the new components would STILL need even months to be replaced!!!
- This is among the FEW places which can help me, because EVEN IF there was an hyperspecific forum for my issue getting LESS capable brains on it for PROBLEMS WHICH CAN HIT ANYONE AT ANY TIMES is just a bad decision. The problem happened with Fedora, so here I am.
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I want to make it clear to you, the reader, that because of my state of PHYSICAL health, I can not bear “unnecessary labor” nor “attitudes”.
Because of my BAD health I already live days orbiting the 30 hours of wake and 10 of sleep. I am TIRED and ILL.
Please reader, I ask of you to write things only if you are sure they’d help, not by opinion, but by fact of what THE TOOL does.
I came here to solve problems, not to argue. Clear and simple communication bears the best understanding.
I want something very simple:
Instructions about tests, and/or software to test, to see if it was an hardware failure. ANY kind of hardware failure.
My bet is on the components which I just changed[3], BUT a VERY similar problem happened up to last year too (both on Windows 10 and Fedora KDE); making a SWAP on the SSD “fixed” it…
I am fine to run “Memory Tester 42” from a USB stick or whatever, I just want the software to be made with humans in mind, and for the instructions to be crystal clear.
I am NOT fine with “have you tried [niche thing which doesn’t work]” or “have you tried taking 1 stick of RAM out at the time” because the first is useless, and the second is my last resort because my hands shake and my muscles are weak. I’d rather avoid physical labor (the PC is absolutely heavier than 10kg at this point) UNLESS it’s the only option left!
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Now, here’s what happened:
This could have been due to one of the latest software updates to ANYTHING in Fedora, REGARDLESS if this MAY be a universal problem, or if it was triggered because of defective hardware or corrupted data.
I have had freezes for these last 2-3 days. I still managed to use the PC and even play Helldivers 2 for hours at max performance for my hardware.
These last 1-2 days, just and only when using Brave and/or Firefox the PC first lagged, then eventually froze, and then either crashed or, more commonly, needed an hard restart (power button) from me.
A couple of times the PC managed to keep working long enough to say “I can’t write on Fedora_partition” and I managed to see that it got filled to 100%, but both after restarting and if I managed to “prevent the worst” the space got freed up afterwards.
THIS IS A THING I COPIED OFF GOOGLE’S LLM, I believe this was happening:
Crash Loop Core Dumps: If the browser or a graphics process (like WebGL or hardware acceleration) repeatedly crashes under the hood, Fedora may write massive memory core dumps (
systemd-coredump) into the root filesystem faster than it can handle, instantly eating up 100% of the free space
The current state of events:
Fedora is currently stuck in Emergency Mode or whatever it’s called. It basically is doing the same thing this guy says:[4]
I get a message similar to Generating “/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt”… this happens regardless of the 3 versions of Fedora I can select…
Windows 10 is in dual boot too.
It first seemed to boot fine-ish. Reaching desktop, loading its NTFS drives, BUT Steam was stuck booting (after the Big Picture movie was over)… ??
Then it did a BlueScreen similar to this (taken from internet, may change it later), but 4 times in a row, overlapped, and badly interlaced (like a bad interlaced signal for old CRT TVs).
If I let it finish it then reboots and wants to “fix a drive”. If I refuse it goes back to this.
If it repairs it says “something-memory_error, impossible to remember 0xXXX code, can’t write to 0x(F*16)”…
If I move the window and get in, I just keeps on getting that error, slowly and over and over again, with only a black screen behind…
What I THINK is causing this:
This is either Fedora having an aneurysm (but that wouldn’t explain W10 having problems)
or a component, most probable of all the RAM, running unstable or being broken, period, having corrupted some OS files…
Honestly the ONLY thing which REALLY is torturing me is NOT knowing what’s happening, because ANYTHING that could be happening can be dealt with, be it by fixing it or buying a replacement…
I hope there is an “easy”, quick solution which I can just roll out without having to disassemble my PC, because I am very tired…
I can’t take the current inxi -Fzxx now for obvious reasons, so here’s one from the 19th of July:
~$ inxi -Fzxx
System:
Kernel: 7.1.3-201.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 16.1.1
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.7.3 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B650 EAGLE v: x.x
serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
v: F35 date: 07/16/2025
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 4
rev: 2 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 4475 min/max: 403/5576 boost: enabled cores: 1: 4475
2: 4475 3: 4475 4: 4475 5: 4475 6: 4475 7: 4475 8: 4475 9: 4475 10: 4475
11: 4475 12: 4475 13: 4475 14: 4475 15: 4475 16: 4475 bogomips: 143727
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a
ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT /
6700S 6800S] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2 off: DP-3
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:73ef
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340 /
Radeon 520] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-1 pcie:
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1 ports: active: none empty: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-2,VGA-1
bus-ID: 13:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6613 temp: 33.0 C
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raphael vendor: Gigabyte
driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: none empty: Writeback-2 bus-ID: 14:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e
temp: 43.0 C
Display: wayland server: Xwayland v: 24.1.13 compositor: kwin_wayland
driver: gpu: amdgpu display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Philips 27M2N3500AM res: 2560x1440 hz: 180 dpi: 109
diag: 685mm (27")
Monitor-2: DP-3 model: Philips 27M2N8500 res: 2560x1440 dpi: 110
diag: 678mm (26.7")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: radeonsi
device: 2 drv: radeonsi device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi
surfaceless: drv: radeonsi wayland: drv: radeonsi x11: drv: radeonsi
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 26.1.4 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT (radeonsi navi23 ACO DRM
3.64 7.1.3-201.fc44.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:73ef display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.341 surfaces: N/A device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:73ef device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:6613 device: 2 type: integrated-gpu
driver: mesa radv device-ID: 1002:164e device: 3 type: cpu
driver: mesa llvmpipe device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab28
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland/Hainan/Cape
Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 13:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aab0
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Radeon High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 14:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640
Device-4: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Ryzen HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 14:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
Device-5: HP HyperX Cloud III driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 03f0:089d
API: ALSA v: k7.1.3-201.fc44.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: e000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) driver: btusb
v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-3:3
chip-ID: 0a12:0001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1
lmp-v: 4
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 18.4 TiB used: 10.59 TiB (57.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Kingston model: SA2000M8500G size: 465.76 GiB
speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> temp: 36.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37960G size: 894.25 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Mushkin model: MKNSSDEL2TB size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST10000NM0046 size: 9.1 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Integral Memory model: V Series SATA SSD 250GB
size: 232.89 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-6: /dev/sde model: SSD 512GB size: 476.94 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s
serial: <filter>
ID-7: /dev/sdf vendor: Western Digital model: WD20PURZ-85AKKY0
size: 1.82 TiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
ID-8: /dev/sdg vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 size: 3.64 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 93.13 GiB used: 61.16 GiB (65.7%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot size: 4.5 GiB used: 626.3 MiB (13.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 190.8 MiB used: 20 MiB (10.5%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
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: 3.68 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -1 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 64.9 C mobo: 34.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 42.0 C mem: 40.0 C fan: 0 device: amdgpu
temp: 43.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 34.0 C
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.73 GiB used: 8.03 GiB (54.5%)
Processes: 567 Power: uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 259
default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 28
Compilers: gcc: 16.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.9 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.41
This is the best image which comes to mind to make you understand my current state of mind. ↩︎
I am also lucky I don’t NEED any of them for a JOB, because this is a SERIOUS problem! ↩︎
CPU, RAM and MOBO. ↩︎
I will limit myself here by lamenting just and only the fact that you can do NOTHING here. No “help” command, nothing to insert. I CAN’T EVEN USE LINUX WITHOUT THE GUI!!! Terrible design! Imagine if I didn’t even have A PHONE!!! - The ONLY thing you can do are either 1) being a 200 IQ technician 2) Press Enter as many times as you find entertaining and see the same message being printed out over and over again… ↩︎




