I'm a veteran Linux user and an early adopter of Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia. In Mageia 4 I'm suffering random freezes of system and I don't find the causes.

When the system freeze the only thing I can do is the total reset by means of power switch. And the command journalctl -r returns:
My system is totaly updated. I use KDE, but I have tested with IceWM and the same happens.

I use a Lenovo Notebook (3000 N200) - ‎Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz - Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller - 4 GB RAM.

Any other advice?

[03/18/2014]Extra information: in another partition I keep Mageia 3 and Mageia 3 woks fine.

[04/12/2014]In a desperate act I did a new installation using another DVD. The same result.
I'm sad, in the past the Linux community was more cooperative.

Hi,

I have the same kind of issue on the Mageia 5 beta3 version on my Dell core i7 laptop, although I didn't have the issue with Mageia 4.

For me it is a kernel issue, for everything is frozen: mouse, keyboard, KDE clock. The only way to get out of this issue is by pressing the power switch.

I don't know if this is related, but I am also using the Intel i915 driver for my graphics card.

Hi,

I eventually solved it by disabling local APIC in kernel boot options.

I'll re-enable it from time to time when new kernel versions are delivered to see if the issue is fixed.

Now I'm with another Lenovo Notebook with Mageia 5 Beta 3 installed and no troubles until now.

Notebook Lenovo G480 (20149)
CPU Intel i5
Vdeo Intel HD Graphics 4000
Chipset Intel HM76

I don't get freezes, but I from time to time, my DE crashes back to the login screen. It's happened with several DEs, so I do think it's a Mageia issue.

olivler, could you point me to instructions so that I could try your solution?