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Debian10/Plasma freezing shortly after boot

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Debian10/Plasma freezing shortly after boot

#1 Post by bbowlsbey »

I am looking for more threads to pull to solve this problem:

Running Debian 10 Plasma on an older Dell E6420 with updated BIOS and latest intel microcode and loading kernel 4.19.0-16amd64. Can boot into the terminal and it works well. If I boot into Plasma, the UI freezes after about 30 seconds. I am considering randomly turning things off in the BIOS to see if this fixes anything, and also enabling UEFI (versus the legacy BIOS). I have Plasma running like a charm on a downmodel E5420, but for some work applications I will actually need the camera native on the 6420.

Any suggestions other than my random playing with BIOS and UEFI would be appreciated.
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Re: Debian10/Plasma freezing shortly after boot

#2 Post by Hallvor »

Check the logs?
Messages from last boot:

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# journalctl --boot=-1
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# journalctl | grep 'error'
Are any services failing?

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# systemctl list-units | grep -i failed
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Debian 12 | KDE Plasma | ThinkPad T440s | 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz | 12 GiB RAM | Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400 | 1 TB SSD

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Re: Debian10/Plasma freezing shortly after boot

#3 Post by bbowlsbey »

for journalctl --boot=-1, I get "no persistenet journal was found"

for journalctl | grep 'error', I get:
"kernel: EXT4-fs (dm-1): remounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro"
"kernel: iwlwifi'..."firmware load for iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode failed with error -2"

Setting the physical switch for wifi to "off" and trying to boot again.

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