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Computer freezes when starting world
Minetest version
Minetest 5.8.0 Linux Versuion
Irrlicht device
No response
Operating system and version
Linux Mint 21.2
CPU model
Not sure
GPU model
Not sure
Active renderer
No response
Summary
I'm not sure what the CPU or Renderer is, but every time I boot up a world with a specific mod I use, the entire operating system freezes, and I can't even exit. I often have to do a hard restart of my machine.
Steps to reproduce
(1. Boot up 5.8.0 (2. Load up a mod of your choosing (3. Once you start, after about 15 seconds, rendering lag should freeze OS.
type cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'name'| uniq into the terminal to get the cpu name
not sure about the gpu. What mod is it?
Please provide more details about your hardware and drivers that you're using. Generally, applications in userspace cannot crash your system. Hence this might be a driver or hardware issue - unless there's a memory allocation bug in Minetest (unreasonably high RAM usage), where writes to slow swap might appear like a computer freeze where it's in fact just busy writing.
Check your syslog/dmesg for driver logs or errors in general.
This can happen when your GPU or CPU starts dying. Especially if your GPU is old and you see artifacts on your screen (odd colors, strange triangles). Had something like that last year on my 7 yo GPU.
