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
Reliability. Well after doing a zypper dup, 700+ packages were updated/installed and after my tp-link wireless adapter stopped working and i had to do a system rollback. Not good
What a crap. 
But for hardware not so capable you may consider to split update as the warning message suggests (in tumbleweed).
HI. It was my negligence. I would have to use the most suitable kernel-longterm certainly to my old hardware!
Split update??
I could/should have booted old kernel incase it was new kernel that caused the issue.
When I do update next time if I run into the issue I’ll try an older kernel to see if that resolves the issue
Update not all repositories at once but one after another.
It is not very comfortable, but if it possible.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks, will try that.
This topic was automatically closed 30 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.