[Swlug] More mysterious behaviour from my laptop.

[Rhys Sage]

I've got used to having to do SysRq + REISUB most times I open my laptop from suspend. It has started to suspend when I'm using it as well now. A couple of times lately (in fact a few minutes ago also) I've been typing and it has suspended on me.

Out of interest I pulled this up.

rhys at Apollo:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-204-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.2.7 wm: muffin 5.2.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.3 Una base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK 
  product: VivoBook 12_ASUS Laptop E203MAS_E203MA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: E203MAS v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: E203MAS.202 date: 04/13/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 10.4 Wh condition: 10.7/38.0 Wh (28%) volts: 7.6/7.6 
  model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Not charging 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron N4000 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Goldmont Plus rev: 1 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 4377 
  Speed: 2487 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2498 2: 2491 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 605 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3185 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 driver: modesetting 
  unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 600 (GLK 2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:0e.0 chip ID: 8086:3198 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-204-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 00:0c.0 
  chip ID: 8086:31dc 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 58.24 GiB used: 49.63 GiB (85.2%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: DF4064 size: 58.24 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 0x8 
  scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 56.53 GiB used: 49.63 GiB (87.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com una main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
Info:
  Processes: 212 Uptime: 2m Memory: 3.66 GiB used: 1.10 GiB (30.0%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 target: graphical.target Compilers: 
  gcc: 9.4.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.0.38 
rhys at Apollo:~$ 

I don't expect this laptop to last forever but I'll milk whatever life out of it that I can, without replacing parts. I won't go down the parts replacement route because every time I've tried that, something else failed straight after and then something else and by the time I finally tossed the thing in the bin I'd spent on them what I would have to buy a new laptop and still not had a working laptop.

The file system threw an error a few days ago. I had the busybox thing and managed to solve that. I even took the opportunity to make a short video on it.

It's acting as though this might be a corrupted settings file but it could be the laptop is about to keel over. 

Two questions therefore...
1, This laptop uses Linux Mint. Is there a way of transferring settings and files directly to another laptop running Linux Debian or am I best to copy what I want on a memory stick and just transfter files.
2. Is there some hardware health analyser that could come up with a list of problem hardware?

Rhys Sage