Look for a key in your keyboard labelled as “any” and press it. Setup should run fine afterwards.

Hmmm. I have also installed linux mint xfce from scratch. So far so good. It stuck only one time since this install. And its been 5 days or so i guess.

Oh that makes sense. Thanks!

Ok

Oh yeah i totally agree!

sleep works fine.

Oh, thats very helpful. Thanks

yeah, I have just reseated the RAM lets see if it fixed the problem,

yeah, entire machine locks up. Yeah have tried ssh’ing from mobile and it was stuck one time when i did that during a freeze. have replugged RAM let’s see if system freezes again,

have just replugged RAM and lets see if system gets frozen again.

yeah probably this can be an issue.

yeah, i think you might be right about RAM. Because one day i was holding my latop in my one hand and i saw this screen flickering thing. that was the first time this issue happened. And yeah i can not login to tty when the freeze happens this mean system is completely blocked and is not a graphical problem. I dont think its OOM issue as i have enough RAM and no system doesnt slow down a couple of seconds before freezing entirely. The freeze is random and instant and it happens sometimes when i slide laptop so i think its due to RAM loose connection. Not sure if the RAM is soldered one or is detachable. I will try to replug it and see if it fixes the problem. btw the machine in question is macbook pro 2012 and thanks for replying kind stranger!

Edit: the ram is detachable.

nope this is macbook pro 2012

| Output of kinfo

yesterday i had installed linux mint xfce and it did hang once today. can’t send kinfo output as i dont have KDE installed anymore

| First few lines of tac /var/log/dpkg.log maybe, or something with apt or dpkg|

from timeshift backup sending you debian kde dpkg logs

2024-07-03 18:55:51 trigproc mailcap:all 3.70+nmu1 <none>
2024-07-03 18:55:51 status half-configured mailcap:all 3.70+nmu1
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status installed mailcap:all 3.70+nmu1
2024-07-03 18:55:52 trigproc fontconfig:amd64 2.14.1-4 <none>
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status half-configured fontconfig:amd64 2.14.1-4
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status installed fontconfig:amd64 2.14.1-4
2024-07-03 18:55:52 trigproc desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.26-1 <none>
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status half-configured desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.26-1
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status installed desktop-file-utils:amd64 0.26-1
2024-07-03 18:55:52 trigproc initramfs-tools:all 0.142 <none>
2024-07-03 18:55:52 status half-configured initramfs-tools:all 0.142
2024-07-03 18:56:18 status installed initramfs-tools:all 0.142
2024-07-03 18:56:18 trigproc hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.17-2 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:18 status half-configured hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.17-2
2024-07-03 18:56:18 status installed hicolor-icon-theme:all 0.17-2
2024-07-03 18:56:18 trigproc libc-bin:amd64 2.36-9+deb12u7 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:18 status half-configured libc-bin:amd64 2.36-9+deb12u7
2024-07-03 18:56:20 status installed libc-bin:amd64 2.36-9+deb12u7
2024-07-03 18:56:20 trigproc man-db:amd64 2.11.2-2 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:20 status half-configured man-db:amd64 2.11.2-2
2024-07-03 18:56:24 status installed man-db:amd64 2.11.2-2
2024-07-03 18:56:24 trigproc dbus:amd64 1.14.10-1~deb12u1 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:24 status half-configured dbus:amd64 1.14.10-1~deb12u1
2024-07-03 18:56:24 status installed dbus:amd64 1.14.10-1~deb12u1
2024-07-03 18:56:24 trigproc shared-mime-info:amd64 2.2-1 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:24 status half-configured shared-mime-info:amd64 2.2-1
2024-07-03 18:56:29 status installed shared-mime-info:amd64 2.2-1
2024-07-03 18:56:29 trigproc debianutils:amd64 5.7-0.5~deb12u1 <none>
2024-07-03 18:56:29 status half-configured debianutils:amd64 5.7-0.5~deb12u1
2024-07-03 18:56:29 status installed debianutils:amd64 5.7-0.5~deb12u1

| When did it start to happen

idk exactly but it happened once or twice last week but yesterday it happened like 4 to 5 times in a single day randomly and then i thought switching to another distro or clean install might help but it did freeze once since i have installed mint xfce yesterday.

thank you kind stranger for taking your time to help me out,

| What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.

	Subsystem: Apple Inc. 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [106b:00fa]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:7270]```

What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.

for context, i have been using debian 12 for last 6 months perfectly fine. Its just from last week my laptop is randomly freezing and then I have to hard reset it everytime this happens, (pressing power off button for few seconds to force shutdown).

for context, i have been using debian 12 for last 6 months perfectly fine. Its just from last week my laptop is randomly freezing and then I have to hard reset it everytime this happens, (pressing power off button for few seconds to force shutdown).

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Thanks buddy!