Bazzite-deck slow death until I can no longer boot
So I discovered today that HDD was enabled on deck by discovering the button combo by accident.
- I enabled the ruby (i think that's what it was called) scheduler
- over the course of the next hour or two my games and steam started get noticeably less responsive and opening the steam overlay menus would cause a lag spike.
- then the games just simply stopped loading at all at loading screens
- then they would not open at all
- then steam became unresponsive and slow even with no game open
- disabled the "ruby" scheduler because that's the only variable that changed so it was most likely that
- then desktop mode would not open
- and now when booting the login screen worked fine but the system crashed the second steam came onto the screen
- now it straight up doesn't boot at all
I rebooted about a dozen times throughout that whole process, I just don't recall where in the process
- I tried booting the previous update to see if that did anything but still just permanent black screen after grub
I was concerned that the slow rollout of problems was some sort of GPU failure as that's how it tends to look on pc hardware.
- so I then tried booting into another live OS off of my USB and everything works perfectly fine
So either bazzite shredded itself to pieces, but I wouldn't know how to diagnose that, or my SSD completely shit the bed... but then grub would also not work in theory
Thanks for reading
- I enabled the ruby (i think that's what it was called) scheduler
- over the course of the next hour or two my games and steam started get noticeably less responsive and opening the steam overlay menus would cause a lag spike.
- then the games just simply stopped loading at all at loading screens
- then they would not open at all
- then steam became unresponsive and slow even with no game open
- disabled the "ruby" scheduler because that's the only variable that changed so it was most likely that
- then desktop mode would not open
- and now when booting the login screen worked fine but the system crashed the second steam came onto the screen
- now it straight up doesn't boot at all
I rebooted about a dozen times throughout that whole process, I just don't recall where in the process
- I tried booting the previous update to see if that did anything but still just permanent black screen after grub
I was concerned that the slow rollout of problems was some sort of GPU failure as that's how it tends to look on pc hardware.
- so I then tried booting into another live OS off of my USB and everything works perfectly fine
So either bazzite shredded itself to pieces, but I wouldn't know how to diagnose that, or my SSD completely shit the bed... but then grub would also not work in theory
Thanks for reading
Solution
Yeah it appears to just be that for whatever reason, steam overlay recording (or whatever it's called), just never stopped recording despite the SSD being completely full
So Ideally the solution here would be to implement some sort of disk fill limit for everything outside of the OS so that if you fill it, the OS won't stop being functional. It does warn you on desktop mode that the disk is almost full, but if you just fill it faster than you get to desktop, then this happens.
So Ideally the solution here would be to implement some sort of disk fill limit for everything outside of the OS so that if you fill it, the OS won't stop being functional. It does warn you on desktop mode that the disk is almost full, but if you just fill it faster than you get to desktop, then this happens.
