As who can see?
Are you suggesting whatever is on that laptop screen is legible?
This is an easy issue to fix; just follow the instruction on the screen here:
Instructions for fix
Please add relevant information to the thread with text only, by copying and pasting out of the terminal. Screenshots should be avoided, and pictures of the screen are even worse.
You can print memory diagnostics to the terminal using something like top
or ps aux
, like this:
top -b -o +%MEM | head -n 20
ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -n 20
Investigate swap usage:
swapon --show
free -h
High kswapd
usage could indicate a problem with memory or I/O. Use iostat
to check for disk I/O:
iostat -x 1
Check if Btrfs is doing anything weird:
sudo btrfs device stats /
Yes, since your swap device is zram you will crash if swap and memory are both fully expended.
It’s possible you have a memory leak. Use the monitoring tools to identify the guilty process and try to figure out what is happening, or configure a OOM killer to take down applications that run wild with memory use.
This should be addressed before doing any troubleshooting. Who knows, maybe this is the cause of your issue.
What’s going on here? Are you using dracut, or mkinitcpio? Probably not related to this specific issue, but I would advise configuring one or the other and get rid of the one you are not using to avoid conflicts, or complications with image generation.