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So I have been getting green screen of death on this new computer build of mine. This new computer is the first time I have run linux as I am NOT paying Microsoft any more of my money. The green screens started happening immediately I had originally thought it was due to old drivers at first but I updated every last thing I could find and it is still happening. AI told me that it could be a corrupted file system and suggested a command but it did not seem to do anything and I do not know why. Please help with this and any other suggestions on why I may be greenscreening. It is very intermittent, if I am online for 17 hours it will happen once or twice. Anyway, here is the command the AI gave me and its results...

fsck / btrfs --check --repair fsck from util-linux 2.40.4 If you wish to check the consistency of a BTRFS filesystem or repair a damaged filesystem, see btrfs(8) subcommand 'check'.

Probably a super newb question but I am a super newb here in Linux lol

X870 RX9070 XT Ryzen 9800X3D

Thanks in advance

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Run a LiveUSB of anything else. If it works, install that instead.

Stop listening to AI.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago

The best advice was gratuitous.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

If ai gives you something to try it's better than nothing. But I was going to suggest another distro if someone else hadn't. Thanks ai...

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 18 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Tell us more about what's happening, is the whole monitor turning green or just parts of it?

Does it stay green until you do something, or does it go away on its own?

Does it happen only with certain games or applications, or does it happen regardless of what's running?

And please for the love of fuck do not run any commands you don't personally understand, especially if it came from an "ai". Don't poison your brain (and the planet) with "ai" bullshit, please!

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm a bazzite user for a good year now, and also a first time Linux user. My hardware is amd as well, and for me the experience has been great, the most annoying issues having been compatibility workarounds for windows software. I would definitely recommend you to join their discord for support.

A green screen of death does not sound healthy, even crashes or hard reboots have never produced something similar for me. To rule out hardware issues, can you install a windows copy and/or create a USB with a live Linux OS such as mint to compare? (For reference, some Linux distros are able to run entirely off a USB stick, albeit much slower due to the obvious bottleneck).

If all this checks out I would suggest either reinstalling bazzite off a verified iso (there is a function before installing to make sure there are no errors) or using another distro.

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[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Off the top of my head, I think sudo journalctl -xeb -1 should give you some useful error output for the previous boot (after rebooting from a failure).

There's a --list-boots option if you've rebooted a couple times since but aren't entirely sure.

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[–] calamityjanitor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Your motherboard wouldn't happen to be an AsRock? There's been reports of ASRock mobos in particular causing problems with 9000 series AMD chips, especially the X3D. Mate of mine running windows has been having it crash especially when idle at desktop.

I'm not familiar with a green Linux equivalent to the BSOD. Is it completely green? In that case it may be a graphics problem...

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

It’s definitely an AMD graphics card crash.

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What do you mean by "green screen of death"? Is there any text or something you can transcribe or screenshot for us?

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Which version of bazzite did you download? Do you get the installer to boot?

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