Fedora 28 random lock up

Using Fedora 28 64-bit and it locks up every time I use it. Not immediately, but never know what's going to make it lock up. Just scrolling down a webpage can do it. Have been using Fedora since 10 or 11 and have never seen such poor performance as I'm now getting from 28. Anyone have any idea what's going on with 28?

I have the exact same problem. System just randomly hard locks until I hit the reset switch. I've tired to figure out what is causing this, but I just don't have a clue. At first, I thought it was a power option gone bad. 7/10 times when my pc goes to sleep the issue occurs. However, outside of that it just happens randomly. I could be writing a post, reading a .pdf, surfing the web and "BOOM!" hard lock. The only time I have never experienced this issue was when I've been watching a movie or playing a game.

There have been a couple of threads on this recently - see this for example. Check the linked bugzilla, or maybe just do an update and see if it pulls in a fixing kernel.

I haven't seen similar, but my F28 system is currently barely used.

i have been running a Fedora 28 system for the last week without any lock ups. I am running the Xfce desktop environment. Typically "lock ups" are caused by poor drivers or poor processor support. Can you post your hardware specs and then maybe we can see if there are any bugs with the latest Fedora 28 kernel?

Post some of your hardware specs with these commands:

[mralk3@mothership:~]-> uname -r
4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64

[mralk3@mothership:~]-> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"| head -n 1
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz

[mralk3@mothership:~]-> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev d5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI #1 (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM86 Express LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)

See if it was able to post anything to /var before the lockup. May have to set up some reporting.

System Specifications

OS: Fedora 28 (Vanilla GNOME w/one extension: freon)
CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
MEM: 32GiB G.Skill TridentZ
GPU: Gigabyte Aorus RX 580 w/ MESA
MB: Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 5 (ATX)

Kernel:

4.17.9-200.fc28.x86_64

CPU info:

model name	: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X Six-Core Processor

PCI info:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Root Complex
00:00.2 IOMMU: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) I/O Memory Management Unit
00:01.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe GPP Bridge
00:01.3 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe GPP Bridge
00:02.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:03.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:03.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe GPP Bridge
00:04.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:07.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:07.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to Bus B
00:08.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) PCIe Dummy Host Bridge
00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Internal PCIe GPP Bridge 0 to Bus B
00:14.0 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller (rev 59)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge (rev 51)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 0
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 1
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 2
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 3
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 4
00:18.5 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 5
00:18.6 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 6
00:18.7 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Data Fabric: Device 18h; Function 7
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951 (rev 01)
02:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43b9 (rev 02)
02:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43b5 (rev 02)
02:00.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43b0 (rev 02)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02)
03:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02)
03:03.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02)
03:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02)
04:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1143 USB 3.1 Host Controller
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X] (rev e7)
08:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 580]
09:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 145a
09:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) Platform Security Processor
09:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) USB 3.0 Host Controller
0a:00.0 Non-Essential Instrumentation [1300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 1455
0a:00.2 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 51)
0a:00.3 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio Controller

- System is up-to-date
- Using Wayland

Did you try using an Xorg session with GNOME instead of the Wayland session? Ryzen CPU are known to have lock up issues with Linux, but I am unsure which models and if it has been resolved. You also have an ATI graphics card that could be the culprit. I suggest you start your research on the topic in those areas. It could just be a small tweak to the kernel boot parameters might fix potential ryzen bugs. You could also use the AMDGPU x11 driver (if there is one) for your graphics card instead of the radeon open source graphics driver that comes with Fedora.

I'll switch to Xorg for a bit and see that that changes anything for now. Personally, I have never had an issue with AMD, or MESA up until this latest implementation of Fedora. On that note, I haven't really used Wayland until Fedora 28 either, so heres hoping!

Yeah let us know how it goes. I know on my system with 16GB of RAM, GNOME 3.28 + Wayland uses A LOT of RAM compared to GNOME + Xorg. I switched to Xfce because I just cannot be writing to swap with a SSD just because my GUI is so RAM resource intensive.

UPDATE: So approx. 24 hours in (give or take, not really counting) and I can say that it was Wayland causing the issue. The issue has not reoccurred in anyway what-so-ever.

I think it is about kernel fixes for CPU security bugs.
I've rollback from FC28 to FC27 due to that freezes, but got same freezes on FC27 too.
Once I've rollback to previous kernel version, freezes gone.

I've been getting the "Hard lock" bug in Kernel 4.17.12. However, the amount of times this occurs has been dramatically reduced after switching to Xorg from Wayland.