Here's the output of
inxi -Fxxxrz
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System:
Kernel: 5.4.0-94-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin 5.2.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: XPS 8300 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: 0Y2MRG v: A01 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A06
date: 10/17/2011
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M510 serial: <filter>
charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-2600 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 8192 KiB
flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 54279
Speed: 2245 MHz min/max: 1600/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2110 2: 2011
3: 2238 4: 1839 5: 1925 6: 1928 7: 2255 8: 2662
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770] driver: radeon v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:68b8
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD JUNIPER (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.4.0-94-generic LLVM 12.0.0)
v: 3.3 Mesa 21.0.3 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
chip ID: 8086:1c20
Device-2: AMD Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 1002:aa58
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-94-generic
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network
Adapter
vendor: Dell Inspiron M5010 / XPS 8300 driver: wl v: kernel port: e000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4727
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Dell XPS 8300 driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0
chip ID: 14e4:1691
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 10.01 TiB used: 8.79 TiB (87.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q
ID-3: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 size: 1.82 TiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC26 scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104
size: 3.64 TiB rotation: 5425 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0001 scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sde type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM 010-2EP102
size: 931.51 GiB serial: <filter> rev: CC43 scheme: GPT
ID-6: /dev/sdf type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM003-1ER162
size: 931.51 GiB rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: CC45 scheme: GPT
ID-7: /dev/sdg type: USB vendor: Seagate model: ST1000DM 003-1ER162
size: 931.51 GiB serial: <filter> rev: CC45 scheme: GPT
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
port: f020 bus ID: 00:1f.2 chip ID: 8086.2822 rev: 05
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 14.96 GiB used: 650.4 MiB (4.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
ID-2: /home size: 359.46 GiB used: 112.24 GiB (31.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sdc6
ID-3: /usr size: 119.65 GiB used: 24.67 GiB (20.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/dm-3
ID-4: /var size: 29.93 GiB used: 18.68 GiB (62.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc5
ID-5: swap-1 size: 32.00 GiB used: 2.0 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-4
ID-6: swap-2 size: 4.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdc7
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 73 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
1: deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bit-team-stable.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bit-team/stable/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/font-manager-staging-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/font-manager/staging/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-backports-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubuntu-ppa-ppa-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lyx-devel-release.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lyx-devel/release/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com una 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
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qbittorrent-team-qbittorrent-stable-focal.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/slack.list
1: deb https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian/ jessie main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
1: deb https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs/ vscodium main
Info:
Processes: 403 Uptime: 1h 19m Memory: 31.34 GiB used: 11.51 GiB (36.7%)
Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 7/9
Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
Starting with Mint 20.2 and kernel 5.13, I believe, in Fall 2021, I started to get random video freezes which prevented any kind of recovery of control that I could find.
Suddenly both screens on my dual monitor setup would blank but with patterns on each screen. For example, both screens could be white. Or one screen could be gray and the other a kind alternating striped paler/darker green. Or other patterns. (Couldn't take screenshots of course but I suspect it's not too important.)
This could happen within 30 seconds of signing in to my system after startup, or it could be many hours or a couple of days before it happened.
The screen freezes. I've tried the various key sequences that can restart or kill Cinnamon, or kill xorg, or switch to a console: Ctrl-Alt-Esc, Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, Alt-F2 r Enter, Ctrl-Alt-F1. I've tried Alt-SysRq REISUB and REISUO. All with no luck. I can't regain any kind of control when the freeze happens.
While the screen is frozen, system activity does seem to continue at least for a short while - it's very hard to tell. For example if I was running a backup when this happens disk accesses seem to continue on for a while.
Typically after a couple of minutes in the frozen screen state described, I'll get back what was on my screens just prior to the freeze and screen blank, but with a spattering of discoloured pixels here and there. The system is still frozen. Then, in many cases but not all, the system will reboot. It doesn't do a clean shutdown based on the file system checks that occur and the system reporting tool (that shows nothing for this case) that pops up when I login again. There's no crash dump.
Rather oddly, after a couple of months the problem seemed to go away, or I was very lucky and it didn't trigger again for 2-3 weeks. But then I upgraded to Mint 20.3 and it started happening again right away.
I've tried on kernels 5.11 and 5.4 and still get the problem. (I'm running 5.4 now.) I've also tried hardware tests and stress tests:
- Dell diagnostics in thorough mode
- s-tui with stress
- various graphics card stress tests from here: https://www.maketecheasier.com/stress-t ... ard-linux/ (suspecting a card problem) including:
- glmark2
- gputest (furmark)
- glxgears
- phoronix test suite
What else can I do to check hardware and drivers, please?
Regards,
Graham