Hello everyone.
I have 5 openSUSE installations; of these I have 2 Leap 15.6 KDE and Xfce installations and 2 Slowroll KDE and XFCE. The only bare metal installation is a Slowroll XFCE in an old laptop. After several experiments I performed a standard installation with the recommended repos, packman and google-chrome-stable. My installation is 4/5 days old. Now I have 2 specific problems: my zypper dup takes up to 15 minutes for the zypper dup. The second problem is system crashes without any logical sense. Like I was using Libreoffice writer and the laptop, which is generally very responsive, started with some lags and then in chrome it froze for a long time. After 10 minutes I turned off the system by holding down the power button on the laptop. I don’t understand what could have compromised the stability. I tried to install the kernel-longterm and, subsequently I tried to delete all snapshots from yast. I don’t know what else I can do.!!! While I’m writing before seeing the text I have to wait 4/5 seconds of delay. I’ve been using Slowroll since the presentation in September '23 and a vm has been stable for at least 7/8 months without major problems.
Best regards
mauro@hawk:~> sudo inxi -Fxmz
[sudo] password di root:
System:
Kernel: 6.10.11-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
Console: pty pts/1 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20240901
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: TravelMate 6293 v: 03 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: TravelMate 6293 serial: N/A BIOS: Acer v: 1.41
date: 05/26/10
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 1.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 1.1/47.7 Wh (2.4%) volts: 12.2
min: 11.1 model: SANYO GARDA31 status: full
Memory:
System RAM: total: 4 GiB available: 3.7 GiB used: 1.61 GiB (43.4%)
igpu: 128 MiB
Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 2 modules: 2 EC: None
max-module-size: 2 GiB note: est.
Device-1: M1 type: N/A size: 2 GiB speed: 1066 MT/s
Device-2: M2 type: N/A size: 2 GiB speed: 1066 MT/s
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8400 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn
rev: 6 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/2267 cores: 1: 800 2: 800
bogomips: 9046
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Suyin Acer/HP Integrated Webcam [CN0314] driver: uvcvideo
type: USB bus-ID: 1-1:2
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.12 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 tty: 80x24 resolution: 1280x800
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console for root.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
API: ALSA v: k6.10.11-1-default status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.3 status: n/a (root, process)
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: N/A
bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (7.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 120GB size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 109.66 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (7.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 127.7 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /home size: 109.66 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (7.9%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda3
ID-4: /opt size: 109.66 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (7.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-5: /var size: 109.66 GiB used: 8.63 GiB (7.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda4
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 214 Uptime: 0h 27m Init: systemd
Packages: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A Shell: Sudo v: 1.9.15p5
inxi: 3.3.36
Have you run memtest86 on that TravelMate lately? Not all RAM lasts forever, while random lockups and reboots are common symptoms of failing or failed. Try running at least 4 passes, better overnight, 8 or more hours.
Hi @mrmazda
I ran memtest booting from a Linux Mint ISO. I only did 2 hours is that not enough?
Thanks for your help.
I’m afraid it’s something with the OS…
Bye
How many passes occurred? 2 isn’t enough. The initial pass is the easiest. If the 2 hours showed RAM is bad, it was enough. Likely it wasn’t though. You cannot test too long unless you don’t stop when RAM tests bad.
Hi @mrmazda
I have time problems for a long passage.
I will try to do more in the next few days.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Your experience is very valuable to me as an amateur!!!
Hi @mrmazda
I managed to thoroughly test the ram. I found out that the ram is fine but for some reason my configuration has different problems. I tested Slowroll, Mx linux 23.4, linux Mint 22 all with btrfs and xfce. All had continuous crashes and system blocks. I had the possible errors checked by a specialized center. The errors, they told me, depend on crashes of xfce, wrapper 2.0 and google chrome. In Mintreport same problems: xfce, wrapper 2.0 and chrome.
Regards