Hello. Been using Bazzite (KDE, Nvidia) as my daily driver for about a month now. It’s fast, it has all my apps, and it plays games. Exactly what I needed, so kudos!
However, I have been progressively experiencing a problem where Bazzite randomly hard-reboots without warning. The screens go black and the computer reboots. No errors on the screen, no errors on any open consoles.
I’ve checked the logs with journalctl and there’s absolutely nothing of interest at the end of them. In fact, “-b 1” last boot takes me back to the 14th, the last intentional shutdown.
I have temperature monitors; the CPU and GPU aren’t getting hot. I have performance monitors; I have a 16 core 32 thread CPU, and it’s hard to saturate it except in benchmarks or Steam compiling shaders, so it’s not getting overloaded. I have 64GB of RAM, and I’ve never seen it’s utilization fill up. It happens when I’m running games sometimes, it happens when I’m not. It happens when I’m just watching YouTube, it happens when I’m not. It happens when I’m idle overnight too, with nothing open except the lock screen.
I’m kinda at a loss on how to tackle this problem. I’m a pretty experienced Linux admin in the Ubuntu world, but not sure how to tackle the problem inside the Bazzite environment. The fact that there are no errors or extreme machine states as far as I can tell makes it really hard for me to know where to start. Any and all advice would be welcome!
It sounds like maybe hardware.
Is this a desktop?
You could boot a live iso of some other distro (Debian perhaps), and see if it shuts down overnight. That would mostly eliminate (or not) Bazzite as the culprit.
I made an account to post this exact same issue as I’m experiencing it, too, for the last two-ish months. No errors that I can detect in the logs as for the cause. It’s very random when it happens, but I am using an Asus ROG laptop with a dual GPU (AMD/Nvidia) and a wireless keyboard and mouse (Logitech). The last few times it’s happened were when I opened up Kdenlive and Krita, so I’m thinking it may be centered in the GPU side of things, but it doesn’t do it at all when playing games.
+1, probably the smartest thing to do. Though I’m personally completely sure this is not a hardware problem, but that‘s the easiest way to find out.
Yes, this is a desktop and I have a companion Ubuntu partition that I’ve been using for a year plus without this issue. I’ll go back to Ubuntu for a bit and see if something’s changed in my hardware in the last month, just for good luck, but I’ve really come to prefer Bazzite!
@Muddobbers despite being a desktop I do also have a hybrid graphics setup because one of my monitors is Thunderbolt/USB-C only, and that goes through the USB-C Thunderbolt port on my motherboard which goes through the integrated graphics; my secondary monitor goes through the Nvidia graphics card. One of the things I appreciated about Bazzite KDE is that it just picked up the Apple monitor without missing a beat; my Ubuntu GNOME desktop had to be manually configured to light the monitor up.
So I’ll spend some time back in Ubuntu just to see what’s up, although I just moved everything into the Bazzite install…
Any other ideas on instrumentation or logs maybe I can check to see what’s going on? Because the main log pretty tame. I don’t see anything helpful in the timestamp discontinuities.