# Laptop freezes at randomly **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Tags:** other-distro\ **Created:** [June 8, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/laptop-freezes-at-randomly/70324 "2025-06-08T18:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@reaper](https://community.frame.work/u/reaper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/laptop-freezes-at-randomly/70324/1 "2025-06-08T18:45:40Z")
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) ```auto 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. ---
**Author:** ![dimitris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@dimitris](https://community.frame.work/u/dimitris)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/laptop-freezes-at-randomly/70324/2 "2025-06-08T19:10:50Z")
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](https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/?id=c330b5820eefa8e703dbce7278c2a62d9c69166a). 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](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4141) and its workaround (`amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10`) is relevant. But in that case there were `amdgpu` errors in the log… ---
**Author:** ![reaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@reaper](https://community.frame.work/u/reaper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/laptop-freezes-at-randomly/70324/3 "2025-06-08T19:26:52Z")
hmm good to know its not related.. i couldn’t find any amdgpu error in the log, but will look through that thread anyway ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/1X/64c81a89f963ddb07633887baceb642a4b056046.png) [@system](https://community.frame.work/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/laptop-freezes-at-randomly/70324/4 "2025-12-05T19:27:38Z")
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