So, i was running a game through steam (Ark), and teamspeak. Talking with some friends.
All of a sudden, my game freezes up for 10 seconds, and the monitor goes out. - Then it comes back on, after a second, and i am presented with the screen lock log in screen. (Or what ever you call it?)
I can STILL talk to my friends on teamspeak, so i think nothing of it. I punch in my PW, and enter… But once i enter, i have no apps running. No steam, game, nor teamspeak?
So i decided to reboot. - And after BIOS, it gives me the splashscreen. Buuut… Then it just remains there… After about 2 minutes, i decided to hard reboot…
THEN i could get my machine working properly…
Anyone got a thought on this issue? So far, it’s a singular event… And i thought i had screenlock disabled?
The systemd journal is where all the logs are aggregated, everything from kernel to system and user services.
You can query it using journalctl. See man 1 journalctl for details.
As a first step, you can check for what went wrong by doing:
# checking for priority 3 errors (-p3) during the last boot (-b -1), the boot previous to that would be -2, the current being 0
sudo journalctl -p3 -b -1
# check for any processes that crashed
sudo coredumpctl