Hey guys,
I have been checking out fedora on my desktop and its been freezing on boot ups, asking me to preform mem ok, and in general being slow and a big pain in the ass. I have encrypted the volume at install time, ive had the install for a few days and it has become unusable.
The system specs are as follows
CPU: i7 6700k
MoBo: asus z170-a
GPU: gtx970
Ram 32 GB gskill ripjaws
SSD: Intel ssd6 NVME M.2 512 Gig
Some Canadian brand of watercooling gear
any advice on this would be helpful.
What version of Fedora are you using?
fedora 25
What kernel did you choose when installing it? I've been having a few issues with mine too the last couple of days. What DE as well?
kernel 4.3 (i think)
Gnome DE
Ah okay. Mine seems to be alright running Gnome. Cinnamon is what I'm having issues with on start up and performance. It might be we have a similar issues so i'm going to keep this bookmarked and i'll let you know how my progression goes. It might worth running your RAM through some MemTests as I've seen a few ASUS Z170 boards cause RAM issues.
Will do, thanks :)
nomodeset I persume?
dont know what that means :)
Why so ancient kernel? Are you sure it's 4.3? Run this command to find out your kernel version:
#uname -r
I recommend updating to the latest kernel, it will most likely solve your issues, my fedora 25 is on 4.9.13 from dnf update
I will try to do that ASAP
Nvidia is a bit of a nightmare on linux, one standard procedure is to keep 'nomodeset' in the kernel parameters to block video drivers from loading until you've booted to a graphical session (login screen).
(To prevent boot freezes, unresponsive HIDs, wrong colors, graphisc freezes and stuff)
To boot with 'nomodeset' enabled, at grub you choose the kernel you want to boot, press 'e' to edit, then add 'nomodeset' to the line that has 'rhgb quiet' in it. Add 'nomodeset' for example after 'quiet' (seperate them with a space), and press ctrl-x to boot with written settings
Can you run fpaste --sysinfo and give us the url
I installed fedora 25 on my laptop and the boot is slower than most distros and things where a bit wonky till I did a dnf update.
think fedora 25 has some issues.
for the slow booting try running
systemd-analyze blame
this will show what is taking time on start up.
for the instability
grep -i error -A 4 -B 4 /var/log/syslog
UPDATE:
I cannot even boot into fedora any more, it wont even get into grub, I am going to use a different Operating system for a while, as Id like to use a stable Linux Based OS.
I appreciate the support but it appears that this operating system is broken, for me for some reason. Thank you all again for the help.
If it's not loading grub something unrelated is the issue.
Kubuntu is probably the way forward for you, sorry it didn't work. I've just spun up 2 fedora boxes to see if this is a current problem but so far so good.
all my other OS's boot just fine though, windows 10 and ubuntu are running with no visible issues
anymore information you can give us like applications recently installed or hardware that could be unique. will try and stress my vms and see if anything shakes loose.