System wide silent crash
Hi,
randomly, usually after at least an hour in game, the whole system will hard crash. I am running Linux (specifically Manjaro and kernel 5.10), my system, including drivers, is up to date, and running a 1060 (with 6gb of vram). No logs in journalctl, as if the crash didn't happen (no mention of shutdown tho).
Now I've seen mentionned that DH has a tendency to uncover faulty hardware, I'm shooting in the dark here, but maybe someone knows of debugging tools or logging tools that could help me pin point that?
I don't really know why the game crashes, sometimes, I've been standing in the same area for a while, sometimes I'm exploring... tried different render distances to see if it was a Vram issue... same thing.
Ofc no game logs either.
I don't think my gpu is overheating (it's actually mostly under-utilized most of the time, but i'm gonna check that next).
Any insight is appreciated.
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Do you have kernel logs from the crash? You can check the logs from last boot with
journalctl -b-1 (might need sudo) and scroll to the end to search for any panic/oops messages. If the end of the log is normal then probably the system killed itself with no chance to write logs.They already said there is nothing in the journalctl logs
Could you firstly try updating to a newer kernel, iirc 5.10 is from end of 2020 so try updating to a newer version, and check that all your graphics drivers are up to date (for the newer kernel)
Other than that, does this problem only happen when DH is loaded or does it happen with other apps or mods?
There is also a debugging tool I remember using a while back
I’ll look trough my zsh history and tell you what it is (and how to use it) once I’ve found it
I'll try that, might take a while... I've only seen it happen when running DH, not when running just minecraft. It's hard to reproduce as it only happens every few hours (can be very boring)
The last thing in the log entry is cron executing anacron, but there are not other cron or anacron jobs anyway so I don't think it's the issue.
The crash does tend to happen at specific times, (xx:05 tends to be it, as in the first boot message is usually at xx:06, although it's not always that consistent) but anacron should be done doing nothing a while before that as it usually executes at xx:01 on my system.
I tried doing a auditclt on execve syscalls but haven't had a crash during that timeframe.
Will get back on this when I have more info and maybe updated the kernel
To be clear, I'm not 100% sure it's DH, but I've never had that crash happen without it and it has happend at least 10 times in a few days of playing