Ran into a very strange error today that I can’t nail down. This morning I was running a typical pacman -Syu when my system hung randomly in the middle of the update, crashed, and initiated a reboot before the system finished updating. My GRUB entries disappeared and I had to boot into a live env to get back in and repair all the corrupted packages that broke mid-update. When I finally got the system back up, journalctl logs show no kernel panic, no kernel bugs, no lockups. I’m not sure what in the world happened. I’ve had some weird interactions with the dual-GPU setup, and I’m not sure if it could have caused the graphics to hang and crash? I’m not really sure. I would greatly appreciate some feedback from some of y’all about how I might be able to track down the source, if its even possible.
My pacman.log corrupted when the system went haywire. I’m not sure what packages I was updating when the system crashed. My journal logs repeat this line over 200 times right before the system crashed:
Oct 15 08:17:12 archy-framework wpa_supplicant[1333]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-51 noise=9999 txrate=173300
Sometimes the signal variable changed by ± 1 dB. I have no idea why that might cause a full system hang, if that’s even the culprit. I’m not sure where else to look to see if it might have been a hardware fault.
My system info is as follows:
Framework16 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series
System Firmware Version 773
Arch Linux 6.17.2, updated today
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
iGPU: Radeon 780M
eGPU: Radeon RX 7700s