Lately my system has been freezing and completely unresponsive. ctrl+alt+backspace, reisub, nothing works and I have to hard reset. I found some logs, syslog, and have posted a few leading up to the freeze. They’re all from ProtonVPN (I’m on beta). I’m hoping there’s something I can do without just not using ProtonVPN, assuming proton is the culprit. Can anyone make sense of this?
I don’t know how much of this info should be private so I redacted some, timezone, pc name, mac, ports.
2025-12-12T11:09:27.835680TIME MYPC protonvpn-app[4792]: 2025-12-12T15:09:27.835612+00:00 | proton.vpn.local_agent/port_forwarding.rs:225 | INFO | Receiving Response { version: 0, operation: 130, response_code: 0, gateway_epoch_seconds: 4116943, internal_port: REDACTED, external_port: REDACTED, lifetime_seconds: 60 }
2025-12-12T11:09:28.257753TIME MYPC protonvpn-app[4792]: 2025-12-12T15:09:28.257690+00:00 | proton.vpn.session.utils:112 | INFO | API:RESPONSE | '/feature/v2/frontend'
2025-12-12T11:09:28.258827TIME MYPC protonvpn-app[4792]: 2025-12-12T15:09:28.258799+00:00 | proton.vpn.core.refresher.feature_flags_refresher:94 | INFO | Next feature flag refresh scheduled in 1:39:23.178147
2025-12-12T11:09:32.026373-04:00 MYPC kernel: [UFW BLOCK] IN=proton0 OUT= MAC= SRC=REDACTED DST=REDACTED LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=54 ID=30062 PROTO=TCP SPT=REDACTED DPT=REDACTED WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
2025-12-12T11:32:17.244594TIME MYPC systemd-modules-load[957]: Inserted module 'lp'
OK! So I must have rebooted more than I remembered. Going back to -4 gave me the errors from the first freeze today:
Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffaa5cf71f6380 Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode Dec 12 11:09:36 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present pageGoing back to -2 I got the errors prior to the second freeze:
Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000066fd90033180 Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Dec 12 14:09:12 MYPCNAME kernel: BUG: scheduling while atomic: plasma-browser-/162281/0x00000000Just want to say how much I appreciate you taking the time, I’m learning a lot with this, thank you.
Edit: Looks like it may be related to memory issues OOM? I did install something regarding oom awhile back but I don’t remember what it was. I’m seeing nohang recommended tho
Edit 2: I check my running services, the other one was earlyoom. I’ve removed earlyoom and installed nohang. Hope I’m on the right track.