Random reboots with no trace in logs?
So I've had several times now that Bazzite has just up and rebooted on me, with no prior warning, while I was not there to witness it. KJournald Browser doesn't show anything out of the ordinary, actually it doesn't seem to show anything for this boot, but the logs just end abruptly for the previous boot. How can I debug this, or should I just find another distro? This clearly isn't working well for me.
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My first suggestion is running
journalctl | grep Error in the terminal and see if you see anything out of the ordinary, particularly at timestamps around when your system reboots.
I had a similar problem, it turned out to be a bad power supply and I wonder if it might be a hardware issue for you as well....22 Replies
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My first suggestion is running
journalctl | grep Error in the terminal and see if you see anything out of the ordinary, particularly at timestamps around when your system reboots.
I had a similar problem, it turned out to be a bad power supply and I wonder if it might be a hardware issue for you as well.I can't really find anything other than just a ton of generic error messages
grep messes up the formatting too so it's impossible to read through
ah maybe this:
ok, that is exactly the kind of error messages I was getting with my reboots
what's your system specs?
Asus motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 32 GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Ok, so Ryzen. Are you running an overclock or undervolt or is your mobo at stock?
stock, as far as I know
OK, then it's probably your hardware failing somewhere.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen#Random_reboots per this page, it can also happen if your CPU isn't getting enough power, but that's been fixed for a while now
yeah, and I have had this system for a couple years now, only recently switched to Bazzite on it so that's why my first thought was software error
I had the same thought, but sometimes Linux reveals issues with your system that Windows can paper over
I used Tumbleweed before Bazzite
It didn't have those reboot issues?
not that I can recall at least, or maybe they happened infrequently enough that I didn't pay much notice
could also be a new hardware issue since I've recently moved this computer
maybe something didn't fare so well after the move
I did also install a WiFi card in it, which I didn't have before
if you're not using the Wifi card, worth popping out for a bit and see if the crashes continue
well I do, which is why I got it in the first place. However, in a couple months I'll be back wired, so I can try to take it out then
if you have any other backup hardware like RAM, PSU, etc. that you know works, try swapping it in. That's how I stumbled upon my PSU being the issue on my system.
thank you very much for being so helpful, I was feeling pretty down and I dreaded moving distro again, but it sounds like I should just hold off and try removing the WiFi card in a few weeks and see whether that helps
no problem man. since this was something I was going through myself, wanted to help out with my experience
didn't even cross my mind that it could be hardware related
but random reboots should have put that thought in my mind
otherwise, Bazzite has been pretty nice, so distro hopping away from it and still having the same issue would not have been great
I'm marking it as solved even though it's still a "maybe", but it's solved enough to ease my mind for now, so thanks again 🙂
No problem man. Definitely follow up when you can finally swap out the Wifi card or find the problem component
yeah I'm very curious what the actual issue is, and I'm not the best at debugging
one would think I'd be better at this after 20 years a Linux user, but alas