Random, random freezes on several distros
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 4:14 am
Hey guys.
Sorry if this is such an obvious problem, but I'm a bit lost on it.
I have this old computer, the only issue I ever had with it back in windows 7 was that it was slow (2GB ram at the time, now 6GB), I installed linux mint when I was gradually swtching to linux and it served me quite well. I do recall a few random, very scarce freezes on it, but nothing that annoyed me until it completely broke mint during an update. I always figured it was the hard drive showing its age.
I transferred an SSD from another machine with MX installed, and I got a lot of freezes, I figured it was just the kernel and drivers. Did a clean install, went okay for a while, until I got same problem, only not right after boot.
Out of curiosity I tried Zorin and Mint again, once I did get a kernel panic, cpus not syncing. A few times the installer had problem installing the grub. At least twice when systematically testing on Zorin I got a freeze similar to MX when on the install.
Memory test showed no flaws.
I switched back to Mx because it is an amazing distro for most things that I do with it, but the freezes happen at random. CPU can work for a long time on 100% and no problem, but the times that i got to check conky were at 100% or 50%, and once at 3% when opening firefox a second tab.
On some random desperation thinking it might be a CPU problem, I tried the workaround, even though my Pentium is not quite the models that have it (again, desperate), no help.
Reference in case someone reading this in the future is looking for it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/803640/ ... -bay-trail
I can post one of the dmesg, but I don't quite know what I'm looking for there.
I'd like to know what to do to proceed.
Should I try windows or non-ubuntu related distro to confirm if it isn't the hardware failing?
On a similar thread it was suggested it could have been merely graphical, and to change 'intel graphics" drivers before changing to an older kernel, but I don't quite know how to do either.
Thank you for reading
Sorry if this is such an obvious problem, but I'm a bit lost on it.
I have this old computer, the only issue I ever had with it back in windows 7 was that it was slow (2GB ram at the time, now 6GB), I installed linux mint when I was gradually swtching to linux and it served me quite well. I do recall a few random, very scarce freezes on it, but nothing that annoyed me until it completely broke mint during an update. I always figured it was the hard drive showing its age.
I transferred an SSD from another machine with MX installed, and I got a lot of freezes, I figured it was just the kernel and drivers. Did a clean install, went okay for a while, until I got same problem, only not right after boot.
Out of curiosity I tried Zorin and Mint again, once I did get a kernel panic, cpus not syncing. A few times the installer had problem installing the grub. At least twice when systematically testing on Zorin I got a freeze similar to MX when on the install.
Memory test showed no flaws.
I switched back to Mx because it is an amazing distro for most things that I do with it, but the freezes happen at random. CPU can work for a long time on 100% and no problem, but the times that i got to check conky were at 100% or 50%, and once at 3% when opening firefox a second tab.
On some random desperation thinking it might be a CPU problem, I tried the workaround, even though my Pentium is not quite the models that have it (again, desperate), no help.
Reference in case someone reading this in the future is looking for it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/803640/ ... -bay-trail
I can post one of the dmesg, but I don't quite know what I'm looking for there.
I'd like to know what to do to proceed.
Should I try windows or non-ubuntu related distro to confirm if it isn't the hardware failing?
On a similar thread it was suggested it could have been merely graphical, and to change 'intel graphics" drivers before changing to an older kernel, but I don't quite know how to do either.
Thank you for reading
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-16-686-pae i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-16-686-pae
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
intel_idle.max_cstate=1
Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-19.4_386 patito feo March 31 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: INTELBRAS model: IE-G41T-M7 v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 080015 date: 02/24/2010
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E5700 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn family: 6
model-id: 17 (23) stepping: A (10) microcode: A0B L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11969
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1203/3003 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1197
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: EPT disabled
Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Elite Systems driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:2e32
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G41 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Elite Systems
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-16-686-pae
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Elite Systems RTL810xE driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e800 bus ID: 02:00.0
chip ID: 10ec:8136
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 5.52 GiB (4.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SSD 120GB size: 111.79 GiB block size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: 0326 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 109.76 GiB size: 107.53 GiB (97.97%) used: 5.52 GiB (5.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60)
cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Info: Processes: 177 Uptime: 13m Memory: 5.79 GiB used: 377.3 MiB (6.4%) Init: SysVinit
v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36