I have been facing this issue since yesterday, but basically at some point the system becomes insanely slow, and the restart and shutdown options disappear from the menu, tty3-7 dont work, it freezes at the shutdown -now command(at which point I just manually cut the power(bad Idea I know)),
but today I stuck around as my system got insanely borked, eventually freezing up and giving me the screen above. the problem shows up after I wake it up from suspend but not always: My system specs:
OS: Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition) x86_64
Host: TECRA R940 PT439V-03U02WAR
Kernel: 6.11.10-300.fc41.x86_64
Uptime: 23 mins
Packages: 2282 (rpm), 43 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.32
Resolution: 1600x900
DE: GNOME 47.1
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-3540M (4) @ 3.700GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 7550M/7570M/7650M
Memory: 1845MiB / 7879MiB
here are the journalctl entries that I think are relevant
entries for events 40 min before that.
and this is from when it happened earlier in the day
The KMS timeouts almost make me wonder if the graphics chip is snorting some sort of crack.
Just to be safe, maybe try booting a live USB and see what happens. To be very sure, you could even try multiple distro/DE combos on the live disk.
If it’s RAM, it should be easily replaceable on a laptop of that age. If it’s the graphics chip, then it’s probably time to find some other laptop. You can probably still press this to service in a homelab, though.