On Thursday 03 June 2021 02:49:32 Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Debian Buster here. My laptop is aging and has only 4BG Ram, however > that should be sufficient for a couple of instances of Firefox (no > streaming, etc) and an instance of Chromium. > > It has happened a few times in the last few days that the system > becomes irresponsive, the screen is frozen, I can't shut X down nor go > into text mode. I can't hear any drive activity. The only way out is > to shut the laptop from the power button and reboot. I then check in > /var/log/messages and there is absolutely nothing that can give me any > hint. > > I thought I knew how to troubleshoot a crash but it appears I don't. > > Lenovo diagnostic tools can't find anything wrong. > > The only possible culprit is maybe tlp [1]? Maybe there is something > in power management that makes the laptop freeze? Or maybe the RAM is > gone/going and the diagnostic tools are not picking it up? > Have you run memtest86 ?, that might be informative. > > [1] https://linrunner.de/tlp/
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