For a couple weeks now, I've been experiencing random reboots on my laptop.
They happen once or twice a day or not at all, either while in use (black screen), from suspend, or at boot (-> GRUB-menu). All I do at the laptop is write texts and ocassionally game.
From my logs, these "Previous system reset reason" messages jump out at me:
internal CPU shutdown event occured- Coincides with reboot times, except at boot.software wrote 0x6 to reset control register 0xCF9- Too many, but a few coincide with at boot.ACPI power state transition occurred- Rare, possibly unrelated.
See sample logs HERE and HERE. (Some things are redacted.) Also, see my CPU information HERE.
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 44 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Model name: AMD Ryzen 3 7320U with Radeon Graphics
CPU family: 23
Model: 160
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0
Frequency boost: enabled
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 37%
CPU max MHz: 4151.7300
CPU min MHz: 425.1780
BogoMIPS: 4791.29
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pg
e mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht s
yscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constan
t_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid ext
d_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse
3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xs
ave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic
cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw
ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb
bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_psta
te ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 a
vx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt
clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 cqm_llc cqm_occ
up_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xs
aveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd cppc arat npt lbrv svm_lock
nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodea
ssists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload
vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor
smca sev sev_es
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: AMD-V
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L2: 2 MiB (4 instances)
L3: 4 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected
Ghostwrite: Not affected
Indirect target selection: Not affected
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Mmio stale data: Not affected
Old microcode: Not affected
Reg file data sampling: Not affected
Retbleed: Mitigation; untrained return thunk; SMT enabled wit
h STIBP protection
Spec rstack overflow: Mitigation; Safe RET
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via p
rctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user poi
nter sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines; IBPB conditional; STIBP alw
ays-on; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI
Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
Tsa: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
Vmscape: Mitigation; IBPB before exit to userspace
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04, I've had Linux kernel panics at boot once in a blue moon. Could this be relevant?
The only software I've installed within these last few weeks are VSCodium and .NET SDK.
For VSCodium:
snap install codium --classic- "Getting all telemetry out"
- Installed muhammadsammy's C# plugin through VSCodium
- Installed .NET SDK (see later)
- Uninstall everything (wasn't happy)
- Including
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/dotnet(again, see later)
- Including
For .NET SDK:
sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic(ordotnet-sdk-100when installing VSCodium)sudo ln -s /snap/dotnet-sdk/current/dotnet /usr/local/bin/dotnet(fordot-net-100)- Added to
~.profile:export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=trueexport DOTNET_ROOT=/snap/dotnet-sdk/current
What I've tried:
- Disabling Fast Boot, makes no difference?
- Running MyAsus System Diagnostics, all OK
- Keeping tabs on systemctl timers, not correlated
What I haven't tried:
- Running memtest
- Fresh reinstall
- Changing other BIOS/UEFI settings
Update 1: BIOS update
As suggested by ChanganAuto, I updated the BIOS. As it turns out, I was on version 306 (2023/07/25). I followed the instructions from both "BIOS Update" and my laptop vendor's:
- Back up my stuff plus
/boot/efi/EFI - Download the latest BIOS for my device (BIOS for ASUS EZ Flash Utility Version 318)
- Unzip the file, then move its content to
/boot/efi/EFI - Use ASUS Firmware Update from ASUS in UEFI on the file
Will update if the issue still persists.
Update 2: It Gets Worse
The problem is still present, perhaps worse. I had 3 reboots this morning. Oddly enough, I had none yesterday. See today's boot logs: 08:33, 08:56, 09:55, 10:28.