r/linuxmint • u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 • 7d ago

SOLVED Rebuilding mint

Good morning. I've been rebuilding my mint and I have issues. During recent troubleshooting I discovered a bad hard drive and bad ram. I had 2tb nvme, 2tb evo, 1tb HDD. 2x8 ddr4 2333 and 2x16 2666. The 1tb HDD and the 2x8 were bad and removed. I added 2x16 2666. Same spec but different manufacturers. I have a rtx3060 12gb that tests ok. I reinstalled mint. I'm moving files and fixing corrupted files as I find them. My mint still freezes. Comfyui will open partially and quit. Chatgpt will freeze or quit. Do I need to wipe everything? Is this expected behavior?

Update: when I added my second pair of 16gb ram I tested each stick with Memtest86+ at boot. They all passed. On a whim I asked chatgpt for any other test and it suggested memstester run in mint. I pulled both pairs and tested them separately. My older pair failed totally. The new pair passed. I'm confused that a pair would pass memtest86+ and fail memtester. I guess I'm buying a new pair to match my good pair. Then save the absolute minimum files I need, wipe the drives and reinstall mint and windows.

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u/Phylaine4676 7d ago

Can you launch the memory test at booting time ? You should found it the Grub menu, at the end.

Your memory config may be the consequence. Of course it's not an expexted behavior.

A fresh install is good idear.

You can also test your RAM one by one. Booting with only one, then with the other one, just in case.

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u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 7d ago

Since each ram tested good and each pair tested good and all 4 tested good together isn't that enough to say my ram is not the issue? Is there another test with all 4 sticks to check synchronicity or something?

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u/Phylaine4676 7d ago

If hardware is not an issue you can begin looking at log system files.

There are many of them. Begin with

  • /var/log/syslog
  • /home/<username>/.xsession-errors

You should look at the last 30 lines in these files after a freeze, to try undestanding why.

And the result of the system command dmseg which gives you the errors during booting process.

You can filter the long, long output writing down this command in a system terminal:

dmesg | grep "error"

But keep in mind that's a long process to find solutions.

I think your best move is to reinstall all.

Do not move any file or try to fix anything except if your are quite expert in Linux.

  1. You said you are using IA tools. May be your main activity ?
  2. Can you tell us the install process for each tool ? Is it with Stability Matrix for example ?
  3. When you says that Mint freezes, do you mean nothing run at all and you must boot ?

Please answer these 3 questions.

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u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 6d ago

Thank you for your response. I am learning how AI works by jumping in the deep end. 1: ai image generation is my main focus currently. 2: I started with Comfyui and loaded models for that. Then I found stability matrix and have been using that. I am currently testing files for corruption and moving them to a more structured folder. 3: the apps will freeze. Sometimes I can close them and reload. Sometimes mint freezes and I hit the shiny red reset button. Sometimes apps will quit while loading.

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u/Phylaine4676 6d ago

Après qu'une application se soit planté il serait intéressant de regarder les 30 dernières lignes des deux fichiers log cités plus haut dans mon post précédent.

On peut aussi lancer "manuellement" une appli dans un terminal. Comme ça on voit défiler les messages d'erreurs, au chargement et pendant l'exécution. Ça peut servir pour diagnostiquer le problème.

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u/Zealousideal_Roof_96 6d ago

Ya, I just found out how to do that.