# Desktop no longer booting

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/desktop-no-longer-booting/85415>\
**Category:** Framework Desktop\
**Created:** [October 12, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/desktop-no-longer-booting/85415 "2026-10-12T22:33:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![frenziedcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@frenziedcat](https://community.frame.work/u/frenziedcat)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/desktop-no-longer-booting/85415/1 "2026-10-12T22:33:34Z")

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I’m dealing with some pretty severe system hangs that have now evolved into a total boot failure. It started over the weekend with a few hangs, two during heavy loads and one at idle. After the second reboot, I got stuck at the LUKS decryption step. Checking the systemd logs (via Esc) showed the below:

```auto
CPU#5 Utilization every 4000ms during lockup:
#1: 100% system, 0% softirq, 0% hardirq, 0% idle
...
rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 23-....: (240005 ticks this GP) idle=....

```

I tried to boot a live ISO (Fedora 44 and Ubuntu LTS), but no luck getting those to work. The system just hangs after hitting “Install”.

As of today I can’t even get my main system to the point of allowing me to enter the LUKS key. It just freezes/hangs when I select which image of bluefin to boot.

Contacted support, but hoping there may be some answers from the community too.

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**Author:** ![Squiggler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/squiggler/32/50136_2.png) [@Squiggler](https://community.frame.work/u/Squiggler)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/desktop-no-longer-booting/85415/2 "2026-10-13T18:16:59Z")

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I’d run some basic checks: explore the BIOS to see if it is stable, and if that’s OK, run memtest86 from a USB stick.

Oh yes, and use the BIOS to check the system time - if this is wrong then Ubuntu can fail to boot.

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**Author:** ![frenziedcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@frenziedcat](https://community.frame.work/u/frenziedcat)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 10:57pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/desktop-no-longer-booting/85415/3 "2026-10-14T22:57:27Z")

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BIOs seems fine, I can change settings etc. Memtest86+ passed as well.

I am able to boot into my OS again, and boot live ISOs. So going to stress test the CPU/GPU to see if I encounter those hangs again.