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Discord update freezing system (lemmy.world)

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I am relatively new to linux and would like to learn how to troubleshoot things like this. I'm not sure whether the title is indeed correct, but I've had it happen twice now that I was on discord with friends, and suddenly my whole system freezes. When I restart, the official discord client says it has an update.

Has anyone else have this happen? How do I best look for the actual cause? Or at least some error message I can google?

I am on vanilla arch, running plasma on wayland, and I've got the AUR enabled using yay. Discord is installed from the arch extra repo though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

try having a look at the logs from the end of previous boot, I think it's journalctl -eb -1.

journalctl is afaik systemd's log management thingy, and any software issue should be able to be found there.

if it's a hardware/driver issue it might be a bit harder to troubleshoot though, what hardware (cpu/motherboard mainly) are you using?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ah, that's a handy command, thanks. I should probably start noting down some useful commands somewhere persistent..

anyways, I'm using a Ryzen 5 5600X on an B550 Aorus Pro motherboard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I've heard amd 5000 series had some freezing problems because of the core voltage being lower on linux, maybe try installing the microcode package?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ryzen#Troubleshooting