Debian 13 suddenly freezes and i cant interact with anything

mizugi

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Heyo
Recently decided to install debian on an old laptop and its been going pretty well
One thing I run into is that sometimes everything on the system will freeze, not the actual system, and I wont be able to do antthing with said freezed applications.
For example I would open up krita and firefox and then suddenly I wont be able to interact with krita at all, for some reason firefox would still be fine
I can still open up new applications using keyboard shortcuts but I wont be able to do anything in those applications
Im using xfce
Im new to this so please nicely tell me if I did anything wrong
Would love some help, thank you
 


G'day @mizugi, Welcome to Linux.org

Give us some detail re your laptop

brand & model, ram, drive/s, which particular debian installed (version) etc

if you open a terminal, and run the below....then post the result, thta would also help::

Code:
inxi -Fxxzr
 
G'day @mizugi, Welcome to Linux.org

Give us some detail re your laptop

brand & model, ram, drive/s, which particular debian installed (version) etc

if you open a terminal, and run the below....then post the result, thta would also help::

Code:
inxi -Fxxzr

hey thanks a bunch for the response
i had to run sudo apt install inxi before so i hope i did it right

System:
Kernel: 6.12.94+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X450JN v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X450JN v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: ASUS-NotebookSKU UEFI: American Megatrends v: 203 date: 02/27/2014
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-4200H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 3 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/3400 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
bogomips: 22349
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 840M] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau
v: kernel arch: Maxwell pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1341
Device-3: Chicony USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-9:4 chip-ID: 04f2:b3d8
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x363c res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 112
diag: 354mm (13.9")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau device: 1 drv: crocus
device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: crocus inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
device-ID: 8086:0416
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
chip-ID: 8086:0c0c
Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8c20
API: ALSA v: k6.12.94+deb13-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lite-On driver: ath9k v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0036
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: alx v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000
bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:10a1
IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Lite-On Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 04ca:300f
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.1
lmp-v: 7 sub-v: 1
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 698.64 GiB used: 10.54 GiB (1.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721075A9E630
size: 698.64 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 677.9 GiB used: 10.53 GiB (1.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 974.1 MiB used: 8.8 MiB (0.9%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.88 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 90.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1888
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free-firmware
2: deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main non-free-firmware
3: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security main non-free-firmware
4: deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security main non-free-firmware
5: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware
6: deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates main non-free-firmware
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.64 GiB used: 2.42 GiB (31.6%)
Processes: 214 Power: uptime: 5m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 257
default: graphical
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.38
this is what came out
Thanks again
 


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