Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)  [Solved]

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Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)

#1 Post by jj 5117 »

When everything locks up, what key combo is better to try than the power button?
Is there one to create a crash log?
Are there existing logs I should look for?
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It almost never locks. Could'a been a power spike while sleeping, or whatever.

Also, I recently reinstalled Win-10 on a separate internal NVMe(1). I think that it touched the MX-generated MBR on NVMe(0). --> So, for that,
is MX Boot Repair "Reinstall GRUB bootloader on ESP, MBR or PBR (root)" the best option? Should I do a full disk backup first?

Boot error code directed me to this log:

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Log of fsck -C -M -A -a 
Fri Dec 13 04:01:35 2024

fsck from util-linux 2.38.1
boot: recovering journal
boot has gone 31 days without being checked, check forced.
boot: 555/65536 files (2.2% non-contiguous), 147352/262144 blocks
open failed : UUID=<filter>, No such file or directory
failed to open UUID=<same id above>. -1
exfatprogs version : 1.2.0
fsck exited with status code 8
Fri Dec 13 04:01:35 2024

Considerations: Expert Level = -1; Luks installation.


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Snapshot created on: 20240608_2346
System:
  Kernel: 6.11.10-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.11-15~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
    intel_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.11.10-1-liquorix-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro
    nosplash
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: SDDM
    Distro: MX-23.4_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1904 date: 01/29/2024
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP MCM arch: Zen 4 gen: 5 level: v4
    note: check built: 2022+ process: TSMC n5 (5nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x61 (97) stepping: 2
    microcode: 0xA601206
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 16 tpc: 2 threads: 32 dies: 2 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
    desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x32 KiB L2: 16 MiB desc: 16x1024 KiB L3: 128 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB, 1x96 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1187 high: 5539 min/max: 400/5759 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: performance cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400
    7: 400 8: 5040 9: 5539 10: 400 11: 5539 12: 5539 13: 400 14: 5539 15: 400 16: 400 17: 400
    18: 400 19: 400 20: 400 21: 400 22: 400 23: 400 24: 400 25: 400 26: 400 27: 400 28: 400 29: 400
    30: 400 31: 400 32: 400 bogomips: 268289
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: always-on;
    RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    ports: active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:747e class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-3, Writeback-2 bus-ID: 6e:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300
    temp: 38.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00") s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
  Monitor-1: DP-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 model: Dell S3220DGF serial: <filter> built: 2020
    res: 2560x1440 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 697x392mm (27.44x15.43") diag: 806mm (31.7") ratio: 16:9
    modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 24.2.2-1~mx23ahs renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi navi32 LLVM
    15.0.6 DRM 3.59 6.11.10-1-liquorix-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 6e:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 6e:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.10-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Aquantia AQC113CS NBase-T/IEEE 802.3bz Ethernet [AQtion] vendor: ASUSTeK ProArt
    X570-CREATOR WIFI driver: atlantic v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 1 link-max:
    lanes: 2 port: N/A bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1d6a:94c0 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: nordtun state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 32.83 TiB used: 10.53 TiB (32.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: TeamGroup model: TM8FPW004T size: 3.73 TiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: SN12717 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 2TB
    size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 731100WD temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD101KFBX-68R56N0 size: 9.1 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A03 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST20000NM007D-3DJ103 size: 18.19 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    rev: SN01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 249.98 GiB size: 245 GiB (98.01%) used: 94.93 GiB (38.7%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
  ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 973.4 MiB (95.06%) used: 525 MiB (53.9%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
  ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 42.7 MiB (8.4%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: 30.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 38.0 C device: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C mem: 63.0 C fan: 0 watts: 9.00
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2983 libs: 1558 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list
    1: deb https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.7.2/ubuntu focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
    1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.7.2 focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_librewolf.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
Info:
  Processes: 625 Uptime: 1h 28m wakeups: 1 Memory: 125.01 GiB used: 3.58 GiB (2.9%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI


Thanks, Tons!

This is not urgent.
I won't be watching any replies very carefully, and will try to avoid having to mess with the system while I get other things done this morning.
Thanks for being there!
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Re: Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)  [Solved]

#2 Post by j2mcgreg »

Usually with crashes, I try ctrl + alt + back space, first. If that doesn't work I will issue the halt command in a terminal (if I can still open one). The power button on the machine should be the last resort.
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Re: Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)

#3 Post by BitterTruth »

If your system locks up, you can try 'moving' to another tty (command line) session by using Ctrl + Alt + Fn (where n=1-7, I think) rather than just shutting down.

A normal boot brings you to a session on tty7 so if that session has hung or crashed, you can normally move to another session and run htop from there and try to close programs that might be causing the hang or the crash.

You can switch back and forth to the crashed session to see if closing a particular program fixed the session and might allow you to check any logs whilst the system is still 'running'.
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Re: Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)

#4 Post by DukeComposed »

jj 5117 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:02 am When everything locks up, what key combo is better to try than the power button?
An old trick is to try Alt + PrtScrn and then type REISUB. This is called using the Magic SysRq Key.
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Re: Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)

#5 Post by thomasl »

+1 to @DukeComposed's REISUB tip. This beauty should be better known. Since starting to use MX (sometime in 2018) I've used that about once or twice a year, often after doing something stupid :bagoverhead: , and it invariably has worked as advertised(TM) with no file system trouble or any other problem after rebooting. IOW: I've not once needed to power-cycle any of the PCs I use. Of course YMMV.
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Re: Keys to try if system locks? (xfce)

#6 Post by jj 5117 »

Thanks, All.
Thanks for being there!
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