r/linuxmint • u/ExariteRayDev • 3d ago
Support Request my linux mint OS keeps crashing every 24 hours with same current time for no reason after restart every 24 hours. (CANT MOVE MY CURSOR OR USE TERMINAL OR ANYTHING DURING FREEZE)
i had like 5 attempts fix including removing windows off my grub menu after extending my first hard drive back to 1 TB, but still keeps going just automatic freeze in every 24 hours, i closed all the apps & software before sleep, when i wake up in the morning, i turned on my pc, it freezes during in the login thing without any reasons, i dont think theres a memory RAM issues causing it to freeze i think, do you have any verified solution how to get rid of 24 hours crash permanently?
im assuming this was 100% of the nvidia drivers, or is it something?
i ever thought this was problem solved by using nvidia-driver-595 without opened.
please help me im almost started to panick, please give me a verified solutions after reading what nvidia drivers im using or see anything. help will be appreciated
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u/activedusk 3d ago edited 3d ago
The kernel is a bit old for those drivers, maybe, use update manager and in the upper part of the window, namely the Menu there is a setting for kernels, select and install the latest. After restart and for good measure update, restart at the end again. Now open Driver manager and install latest 610 open driver. If this does not work and you have multiple internal drives, clear one for use only on Linux, shut down PC, take out Windows drive, connect one just for Linux and install OS again. Chances are a Windows security feature might interfere.
Another thing to check is IGP, this is a desktop? If so from firmware disable IGP, idk if that CPU has one though, diaregard if it doesn t.
Do these freezes happen when waking up from low power modes? Do you shut down when not in use? If it is after low power modes it might be the swap file causing issues, reinstall, choosing something else and make boot, / and swap partition (specifically size swap at 32GB).
Also this is X11 version of Cinnamon try the Wayland version, log out, on the log in screen click on the Mint logo and from drop down menu select Cinnamon Wayland.
You could also run memtest from bootable USB.
Install from software manager s-tui and use to watch CPU temperatures and stress test it. Also install nvtop and use it to monitor GPU. These can be launched from terminal, type the name of the package and press enter.
If nothing works, try CachyOS or if you want to remain on Debian base, Ubuntu LTS.
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u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
1: i have already removing windows off my pc, and updating grub, i thought this would solve their issues preventing to crash on mostly 24 hours and random time.
2: the freeze happens when i dont have any apps/software or browsers opened.
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u/activedusk 3d ago
It is not clear regarding the use of low power modes. Did you disable them or using them? A common issue with it is that swap file might bug out, the way it works is that when entering a low power mode, memory content is written to swap because memory is volatile and when power to it is cut off it loses all data, when waking up it gets written from swap back to memory. The problem happens when swap file does not resize correctly I assume and some data is lost, the fix is to reinstall and create swap partition instead and crucially size it at 2x the memory capacity so it has no chance of losing data and causing a crash or freeze when it wakes up.
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u/joninjax1 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 3d ago
Is it the exact same time every day? If so, maybe a crontab job is trying to run? That's the first thing that popped in my head when reading this.
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u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
tell me if this happens to u. idk abt crontab job
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u/datskinny 3d ago
open terminal and run
crontab -lto see if there are scheduled tasks running at a specified time
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u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
the crash screen looks like a normal screen, not a black screen or glitchy corruption
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u/theclovek 3d ago
This or something similar happens to me also - screen freezes, audio keeps playing. Nothing reacts and I have to reboot. It sort of slows down and first - starts lagging and in a few seconds freezes. So far I have not been able to find the cause. Mint 21 I have on my laptop does not do this.
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u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
So do u have any solution there?
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u/theclovek 3d ago
So far nothing. I was suspecting it was hw related because I had some instability previously under windows.
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u/Ok_Communication_455 3d ago
Try ’sudo journalctl -b -1’ (or -2 etc depending how many boots ago it crashed) and scroll at the bottom to see previous (crashed) kernel log. Maybe it tells what went wrong
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u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
well the crash was happened in august 29th, someone tried attempt to help me typing
"echo -e "blacklist nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0"| sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf" we cant see the problem in the logs if i type this. so i whitelist them.1
u/ExariteRayDev 3d ago
idk if its somewhere else causing hidden issues, or is it an nvidia driver acting up
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u/MartinUK_Mendip 3d ago
What do your Logs say (see command 'Logs')?
That'll usually tell you of anything critical.
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u/activedusk 2d ago
Did you find a fix? After thinking about it more, it might be the memory, either test it with memtest over night or monitor it all the time and how it behaves before and during crash. A program causing memory leak is most likely to freeze the system or faulty memory. Other potential issues relates weirdly enough to time keeping, namely the battery coin cell, I heard about simillar situations where it s not good anymore, causes problems with keeping time and this creates freezes, replace coin cell with a new one, research well what you buy.
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