I forgot to mention, the lockups happen more often when graphics is being used, e.g. steam games, obsidian graph view, sometimes YouTube videos.
So I may need to look into the Nvidia drivers too. Yes, tainted kernel.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:00:38PM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
>
> How does one even know if their NVME drive is failing? AFAIK, smartctl
> doesnt work on them in the same way it does on spinning drives. Or is
> this a kernel bug?
There's a command nvme or nvme-cli that may help.
https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli
I'd just install the older kernel and boot that manually and see what
In terms of installing older kernels, when I tried (I don't understand the Ubuntu way of doing this), apt seemed to want to uninstall a lot of things, and I wasn't sure if I'd have a working system afterwards.
Before December, the machine was incredibly stable no matter what I threw at it.
happens, it could be a bug introduced in a newer kernel that is affecting
your hardware.
Adam
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