[SOLVED] Mint 21 locks up during session

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[SOLVED] Mint 21 locks up during session

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Hi, recently upgraded from 20 using mintupgrade. All seemed to go OK. Have been running about a week now and the problem I find is that my session can suddenly lock, for no apparent reason. Suspicion (unconfirmed) is running out of RAM, or at least that's what it feels like. Which is unexpected in a modern o/s. I have 16GB of RAM and 32GB of /swap. Seems mostly to occur when running multiple tabs (e.g. 4) in Firefox and a couple of windows in Thunderbird.
Any clues, ideas, tests, diags?
Cheers, Bob.
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Re: Mint 21 locks up during session

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bobity wrote: Thu Aug 11, 2022 6:54 pmAny clues, ideas, tests, diags?
Please supply information about how Linux Mint views your hardware. Open the System Reports app and click the System Information tab on the left. Your computer's information should come up in the right pane. Then click Copy and paste the results into a reply window here.
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Re: Mint 21 locks up during session

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As requested, System Report:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0
    tk: Gtk 3.24.23 wm: xfwm dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: Precision M6400 v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 8 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Dell model: 076V94 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A13 date: 06/05/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 56.4 Wh (100.0%) condition: 56.4/93.2 Wh (60.5%) volts: 12.5 min: 11.1
    model: Samsung SDI DELL 6K1450C serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T9600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Yorkfield rev: A
    cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2840 high: 2888 min/max: 1600/2801 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2793 2: 2888
    bogomips: 11171
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G94GLM [Quadro FX 2700M] vendor: Dell driver: nouveau v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:063a
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1200 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: LG res: 1920x1200 dpi: 133 diag: 433mm (17.1")
  OpenGL: renderer: NV94 v: 3.3 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:293e
  Device-2: PreSonus Audio AudioBox 22 VSL type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 2-1:2
    chip-ID: 194f:0101
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-46-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Dell driver: tg3 v: kernel
    pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 09:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:1680
  IF: enp9s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY vendor: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
    driver: wl v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 0c:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4315
  IF: wlp12s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.2 TiB used: 85.5 GiB (7.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9160412ASG size: 149.05 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter>
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST9160412ASG size: 149.05 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s
    serial: <filter>
  ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABF050 size: 465.76 GiB serial: <filter>
  ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 465.73 GiB
    serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 72.8 GiB used: 42.24 GiB (58.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /home size: 57.3 GiB used: 43.26 GiB (75.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb5
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swapfile
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
  Device-1: 2-1:2 info: PreSonus Audio AudioBox 22 VSL type: Audio driver: snd-usb-audio
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 194f:0101
  Device-2: 2-2:3 info: Western Digital My Passport (WDBKXH WDBY8L) type: Mass Storage
    driver: usb-storage rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1058:0748
  Device-3: 2-3:4 info: Verbatim Portable Harddrive type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage
    rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 18a5:0237
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
  Hub-5: 5-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
  Device-1: 5-1:2 info: Broadcom BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor type: Smart Card
    driver: N/A rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 0a5c:5800
  Hub-6: 6-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
  Hub-7: 7-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
  Device-1: 7-2:2 info: Logitech M90/M100 Optical Mouse type: Mouse driver: hid-generic,usbhid
    rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s chip-ID: 046d:c05a
  Hub-8: 8-0:1 info: Full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0001
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 54.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau temp: 55.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2624
Repos:
  Packages: 2976 apt: 2963 flatpak: 13
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http: //packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http: //archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http: //security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https: //repo.skype.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http: //repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
  Processes: 217 Uptime: 38m Memory: 15.62 GiB used: 1.95 GiB (12.5%) Init: systemd v: 249
  runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 alt: 11/9 Client: Unknown python3.10 client inxi: 3.3.13
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Re: Mint 21 locks up during session

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It is likely you are running into the same issue as the person in this topic [SOLVED] LM21 randomly freezing - problem with nouveau driver.
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Re: Mint 21 locks up during session

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Thank you SMG, looks right on the money.
Ageing Dell laptop (Precision M6400) with unsupported Nvidia driver.
The 21 replacement Nouveau driver seems to be the source of the problem.
Bother.
Looks like back to 20.3!
Many many thanks for prompt and helpful response.
I'll mark this as SOLVED.
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Re: Mint 21 locks up during session

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Except I can't find out how to mark this SOLVED?
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Do I just change the Subject?
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bobity wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 7:55 pm Do I just change the Subject?
Yes. Go to your first post in this topic, click the pencil icon, and add [SOLVED] to the beginning of the title and then submit the change. (animated gif courtesy of user BJZilberman)
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