Random Rebooting After Mint 20 Install

[windsurfer]

Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon appears unstable after install. Linux Mint 19.3 rock solid stable. Installed Mint 20 Cinnamon on newly formatted drive with default partitioning, and tried running with and without NVIDIA drivers. After a short period of time of normal use, the system begins randomly rebooting. Tried removing all plug-in cards, but no change. Don't know how to diagnose.
Thanks

Here is the system report for the Mint 19.3 install. Cannot generate report for Mint 20 due to instability.

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System:
  Host: Sandpiper Kernel: 4.15.0-111-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X58A-UD3R serial: <filter> BIOS: Award 
  v: F6 date: 08/24/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 930 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 45338 
  Speed: 1620 MHz min/max: 1596/2794 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1619 2: 1619 3: 1619 4: 1620 5: 1621 6: 1619 7: 1619 8: 1619 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia 
  v: 390.138 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10de:128b 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.138 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio 
  vendor: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3a3e 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0f 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-111-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
  v: kernel port: db00 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0030 
  IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ae00 bus ID: 0a:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp10s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: D-Link System DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8169 
  v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: ce00 bus ID: 0b:00.0 chip ID: 1186:4300 
  IF: enp11s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 342.91 GiB (36.8%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC46 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.89 GiB used: 342.91 GiB (37.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 40 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 33% 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/clementlefebvre-grpc-bionic.list 
  1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/clementlefebvre/grpc/ubuntu bionic main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Info:
  Processes: 254 Uptime: 3h 05m Memory: 23.54 GiB used: 1.38 GiB (5.9%) 
  Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash 
  v: 4.4.20 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32

[windsurfer]

I believe this problem is a bug with Mint 20 Cinnamon. After verifying all of my hardware (add on cards, memory, and hard drive) was functioning properly, I was able to replicate this problem several times. I performed a clean install of Mint 20 Cinnamon with default partitioning, installed updates and upgrades, and then installed the recommended Nvidia graphics driver. I then opened several applications and waited. After a short period of time the system would reboot. With further use the time between reboots would decrease until the system became unusable. I tried this several times with the same result.

Today, I tried installing Mint 20 xfce. It has been running fine for hours now with no problems. It appears the problem is with the Cinnamon version of Mint 20 on this hardware. I have Mint 20 Cinnamon installed on other systems and have not had any issues.

Here is my system description with Mint 20 xfce:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.13 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X58A-UD3R serial: <filter> BIOS: Award 
  v: F6 date: 08/24/2010 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 930 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 45335 
  Speed: 2588 MHz min/max: 1596/2794 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 1666 2: 1779 3: 1826 4: 2812 5: 1647 6: 2172 7: 1750 8: 1655 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia 
  v: 440.95.01 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10de:128b 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GT 710/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.95.01 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio 
  vendor: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:3a3e 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Gigabyte 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 03:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0e0f 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-42-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
  v: kernel port: db00 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0030 
  IF: wlp8s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: ae00 bus ID: 0a:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: enp10s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: D-Link System DGE-528T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8169 
  v: kernel port: ce00 bus ID: 0b:00.0 chip ID: 1186:4300 
  IF: enp11s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 9.64 GiB (1.0%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1CH162 size: 931.51 GiB 
  speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC46 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 915.40 GiB used: 9.64 GiB (1.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 33% 
Repos:
  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 ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 285 Uptime: 4h 00m Memory: 23.49 GiB used: 1.18 GiB (5.0%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[windsurfer]

Spoke to soon. Mint 20 xfce rebooted after approximately 5 hours. It appears the bug is not just a Cinnamon problem.

[SMG]

Moderator note: tiparega's issue can now be found here Random Rebooting After Mint 20 Install.