I’ve recently installed Mint on a clean partition, and set up dual booting to always prefer that partition over the Win10 one (on a separate sdd). At the moment I’m trying Mint for the very first time, seeing how I like it. And truth be told, it’s quite good! However I’ve had 2 system crashes in the last 2 days, and some games crash without an error log (old world went straight to desktop while mid-turn, and ghost of Tsushima crashed after I paused the game when pressing start).

I’d love to be more knowledgeable and figure this out by myself, but I can’t find a starting point to determine what went wrong in any of these instances.

Are there execution logs or actual error logs that I can check somewhere?

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    I think Mint uses systemd, so after rebooting, you should be able to review the system log from the previous boot with this command:

    journalctl --boot=-1

    The kernel might still be running even when the display is frozen. If that’s the case, you can try rebooting more gently than a forced power-off would do. While holding down the Alt key, type these keys in order, with a couple seconds between each tap: SysRq R E I S U B

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

    Note: SysRq is disabled by default on some distros, and unsupported by some keyboard controllers. You can check (when the system is not frozen) by holding Alt and typing SysRq H while watching the output of sudo dmesg --follow. If it’s working, you should see a help message.

    For what it’s worth, what you’re describing sounds like it might be a GPU driver misbehaving, perhaps in response to power saving events. If you have an Nvidia card, you might try a different driver version. Otherwise, you might try an older or newer kernel version.