After my system just froze up (I’m on Debian Testing, happens every now and then, sadly logs have so far not resulted in any information), I noticed that just before gdm3 shows up, there was some message about a BIOS bug on the screen. dmseg shows me these two lines:
[ +0,006354] [Di Jan 28 16:53:21 2025] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0x00000000A) is beyond end of object (length 0xA) (20240827/exoparg2-393)
[ +0,000011] [Di Jan 28 16:53:21 2025] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.LPC0.EC0._Q39 due to previous error (AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT) (20240827/psparse-529)
I’m on BIOS 3.05 and Kernel 6.12.11. I haven’t noticed such a message before. Any reason for concern?
I haven’t seen any that truly point to an issue and it is just the kernel being informational. Are you running into issues beside the freezing? Have you tried to see if it is happening with a certain stick of RAM (if you have two)?
I don’t see any other specific issues. And yes, I do have two RAM sticks but I haven’t removed one yet to see if that’s the issue as the freezes are very random and very far apart.
I just let the default test that will automatically start by default run for one pass, and it didn’t report any issues. But I can also let it run overnight.
Overnight is good depending on how much RAM you have, I believe the test will keep going but it should provide feedback if it passed or failed as well.