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Try installing the latest kernel from backports. Searching the error messages leads to several reports a more recent kernel fixed those "pcieport" errors. That could fix your freezes. Thank you for this suggestion, I'll try and let you know. You need to clean up the OS so it produces outp...

Now I'm using my laptop and waiting to see whether it crashes or not, here is the complete hardware report as of today FYI it does still crash, approximately once a day for no particular reason. No I have set up Journalctl so I can read the jurnal log as suggested in the very first posts. I collect...

is one Debian the same as another? Mine run for months, and months. They should be able to run for years, but we shouldn't necessarily let them...some can't make it a day! Debian is the same but the hardware on which it runs is not the same, so in some sense no, they are not all the same. As I said...

Now I'm using my laptop and waiting to see whether it crashes or not, here is the complete hardware report as of today FYI it does still crash, approximately once a day for no particular reason. No I have set up Journalctl so I can read the jurnal log as suggested in the very first posts. I have no...

Finally I managed to perform a fresh install of Debian 10. Wireless was not working but I just installed the firmware package and now it works (I already knew it). Also, the package `linux-image-amd64` was already installed, I'm not sure why it was not there in the first installation of Debian 9. No...

I finally updated the kernel by installing the `linux-image-amd64` package. Now I have an up-to-date machine and the computer no longer freezes when I resize the terminal window by dragging and dropping the bottom-right corner. Sometimes it still randomly freezes but much less frequently: say once a...

I've never heard of production laptops before. Relax, it's just a laptop (not a server nor a commodity machine...). Here you state: A lot of effort actually. It took me three evenings to install Debian on this laptop (see the previous posts) and there is no guarantee that the system will work with ...

Sorry about missing the tech specs that you already posted in #1. no problem Dell Inspiron 13-7359 (06FD): Compared to the Latitude or Precision the Inspirons are still nice machines, but much less flexible than the others. So you likely do not have the option to have a 2nd HD permanently in anothe...

I run my full disk images when I sleep... so very efficient wrt time. For critical systems I've always a complete ready to go disk to replace the problem disk. Such actions give a lot of rest/confidence in case of a problem.... as if you then have a problem.. and you have to solve that instantaneou...

took that kernel from nowhere in particular: it came with Debian 9 when I installed it back in 2017 (Debian 9 was the testing distribution at that time if I remember well) 2020-05-30 20:57 :: Really? Nobody have noticed what is going on here? Debian 9 Stretch was released starting with kernel v4.9,...

Suppose... you've putting all the energy in a fresh install.... after first making a backup/image of your current system ... you might already being finished with that.... and have an answer on the instability? How it goes now... the impression is... it does not work... you lose track of what you h...

As for the stability, I found that the problem appears when I resize the xfce4-terminal or gnome-terminal by dragging and dropping the bottom right corner. Clicking on the buttons on the window title bars works flawlessly. Xterm and the other program windows work flawlessly. It seems pretty much a ...

My system is definitely a frankendebian. I have no doubt it is -> You should change the title of this topic, because You're NOT using Debian 10 , and it's not Debian 10 which is freezing on Your laptop -> apparently You're using some mix of software packages which are incompatible with each other. ...

Really? Nobody have noticed what is going on here? Debian 9 Stretch was released starting with kernel v4.9, not v4.6 -> frankendebian or simply a broken system Don't Break Debian Regards My system is definitely a frankendebian. Say whatever you want but this configuration was the only one I managed...

I haven't updated the kernel (yet) but I found the cause of the problem: my computer freezes every time I try to resize an xfce-4-terminal window or gnome-terminal window by dragging and dropping the bottom right corner (I am not joking). Xterm works flawlessly. I have found some related post that m...

And no, a kernel installation will not touch any files in /lib/firmware and anyway the µcode is baked into the (old) initramfs so it wouldn't matter if it did. How can you be so sure? Because the kernel package doesn't touch anything in /lib/firmware That may be true for the wifi, but how can you b...

I have the feeling that if I update it the laptop will never boot again . . . . Please tell us you have good backup on another medium. I do. I don't want to upgrade the kernel because I don't know if I can solve it again with the new kernel. I have the feeling that if I update it the laptop will ne...

if I upgrade the kernel now I really don't know if it my laptop will work and I'm not sure I can fix it again The old kernel version will not be removed and will be available in the "Advanced Options" GRUB sub-menu. And if you tell us which wireless card you actually have then we might be...

I always update the system through apt but this doesn't upgrade the kernel unless I install the packages for the newer version The kernel will be kept updated as long as you have the linux-image-amd64 metapackage installed, that always lists the most recent kernel as a dependency. I don't have it, ...

I find the most useful command is journalctl -b -1 -p 3 I'm a bit dubious about the "procedure from askubuntu". All you need to do is create the directory /var/log/journal to have a persistent journal. "Storage=auto" is the default which will save the journal as long as the dire...