Laptop freezes at randomly

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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Which Linux distro are you using?
Garuda Linux (Arch)

Which release version?
(if rolling release without a release version, skip this question)

(If rolling release, last date updated?)
Jun 1, 2025 and then today, Jun 8 (after freeze)

Which kernel are you using?
6.14.9-zen1-1-zen

Which BIOS version are you using?
3.05

Which Framework Laptop 16 model are you using? (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics

SSD: SN850x 1TB
RAM: 2x16G Crucial

Note: I brought the laptop only couple of months back.

Problem
The laptop suddenly froze and had to hard reset.. (no mouse movement, couldn’t launch a login shell or anything)
This has happened couple of times now, but I couldn’t notice any pattern..

Looking at the logs, I couldn’t find any errors, but this is the only thing i found there (there are loads of these messages)

Jun 08 19:01:14 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:17 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:20 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:23 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:26 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:29 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900
Jun 08 19:01:32 winterfell wpa_supplicant[1055]: wlp1s0: CTRL-EVENT-SIGNAL-CHANGE above=1 signal=-36 noise=9999 txrate=1200900

Has anyone had similar issues? ChatGPT suggests that it is known issue with the wifi device/driver.

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The wpa_supplicant logspam should be unrelated to the freeze and you should be seeing it at times when there’s no freeze happening.

It was fixed upstream. Getting the fix rolled out depends on the distro, Fedora for example did so about a month ago.

There are some graphics issues that cause freezes, try searching this forum or see if e.g. this upstream thread and its workaround (amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10) is relevant. But in that case there were amdgpu errors in the log…

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hmm good to know its not related..
i couldn’t find any amdgpu error in the log, but will look through that thread anyway