this has happened on my device a lot of times now, whenver I start my laptop, I have installed arch on it. can anyone please tell me what is it and how to fix this? and I am a newbie.

  • jlsalvador
    3·
    1 year ago

    syscall -> asm -> page_fault

    This a native machine code execution that crashed in your system. Could be an instruction that your CPU doesn’t understand (because the instruction is newer than your CPU, example: AVX512), or because your hardware returns an error when this instruction is executed (RAM issues?). Too difficult for me to understand this ASM crash.

    • picl0_pabasso@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s some cpu issue because I used arch for sometime on my another laptop which is poorer in terms of hardware and cpu than current one. But again I might be wrong, will try to understand if this happens again.

  • signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Does it say anything above that? Look for the last line written in plain English. That should be what Linux was trying to do before it panicked.

  • Krik@feddit.de
    31·
    1 year ago

    The OS splits memory into pages and assigns the pages to applications. A page fault usually means one of two things:

    • hardware fault
    • programming error

    You can check your memory with Memtest86. Some LiveCDs come with it. If it’s a programs fault you can only try other software if possible.