Hey everyone,
I’ve freshly switched to trying Linux after having a trial run on a work laptop with Ubuntu and now I’m trying dual booting with Win 11 and OpenSuse Tumbleweed with Gnome on my own private laptop.
It’s smooth sailing so far, but unfortunately I’m having some troubles: every now and then, seemingly at random, the desktop completely freezes and I can’t do anything. I can’t move the mouse, I can’t open the terminal, can’t open or close anything. After a time period, which seems to vary wildly, everything returns to normal. I’ve read it could either be a problem with memory or the the video drivers.
I tried installing zram for getting enough swap and I have about 16 GB RAM physical, so I’m not sure how memory could be the problem.
Video drivers I installed just like it was told in the OpenSuse-Wiki (it’s an Nvidia though).
I’ve copied a journalctl report from my last freeze:
Sep 25 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Queued start job for default target Main User Target.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Created slice User Application Slice.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Submitting pending crash events (file monitor).
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Cleanup lingering KCrash metadata was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExistsGlob=/home/hhashzhkhenh/.cache/kcrash-metadata/.ini).
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Submitting pending crash events was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExistsGlob=/home/hhashzhkhenh/.cache/drkonqi/sentry-envelopes/).
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Daily Cleanup of User’s Temporary Directories.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Paths.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Timers.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket…
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Listening on Socket to launch DrKonqi for a systemd-coredump crash.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Listening on PipeWire PulseAudio.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Sockets.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting Create User Files and Directories…
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Finished Create User Files and Directories.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Sockets.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Basic System.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Cleanup lingering KCrash metadata was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExistsGlob=/home/hhashzhkhenh/.cache/kcrash-metadata/*.ini).
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Main User Target.
Sep 24 17:27:27 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Startup finished in 180ms.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Created slice User Core Session Slice.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus…
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[2434]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +31: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[2434]: Policy to allow eavesdropping in /usr/share/dbus-1/session.conf +33: Eavesdropping is deprecated and ignored
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started D-Bus User Message Bus.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain dbus-broker-launch[2434]: Ready
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Created slice Slice /app/gnome-session-manager.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target GNOME Wayland Session.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target GNOME Shell.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session…
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting User folders update…
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Finished User folders update.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Session services which should run early before the graphical session is brought up.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Monitor Session leader for GNOME Session.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target Tasks to be run before GNOME Session starts.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome)…
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-daemon[2531]: discover_other_daemon: 1
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop[2531]: discover_other_daemon: 1SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-session[2509]: gnome-session-binary[2509]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Could not create transient scope for PID 2543: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown: Process with ID 2543>
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-daemon[2533]: discover_other_daemon: 1
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-secrets.desktop[2534]: discover_other_daemon: 1SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Started GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome).
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-pkcs11.desktop[2533]: discover_other_daemon: 1SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/ssh
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-keyring-daemon[2534]: discover_other_daemon: 1
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Reached target GNOME Session Manager is ready.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain gnome-session-binary[2509]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Could not create transient scope for PID 2543: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnixProcessIdUnknown: Process with ID 2543 does not exist.
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: Starting GNOME Shell on Wayland…
Sep 24 17:27:28 localhost.localdomain systemd[2379]: GNOME Shell on X11 was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionEnvironment=XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11).
For my hardware:
16 GB RAM
NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile]
Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H × 8
HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 17-cd2xxx
Do you know what might be wrong? Or what else I should check?
Thanks ahead!