Look for a key in your keyboard labelled as “any” and press it. Setup should run fine afterwards.

Hmmm. I have also installed linux mint xfce from scratch. So far so good. It stuck only one time since this install. And its been 5 days or so i guess.

Oh that makes sense. Thanks!

Oh yeah i totally agree!

sleep works fine.

Oh, thats very helpful. Thanks

yeah, I have just reseated the RAM lets see if it fixed the problem,

yeah, entire machine locks up. Yeah have tried ssh’ing from mobile and it was stuck one time when i did that during a freeze. have replugged RAM let’s see if system freezes again,

have just replugged RAM and lets see if system gets frozen again.

yeah probably this can be an issue.

yeah, i think you might be right about RAM. Because one day i was holding my latop in my one hand and i saw this screen flickering thing. that was the first time this issue happened. And yeah i can not login to tty when the freeze happens this mean system is completely blocked and is not a graphical problem. I dont think its OOM issue as i have enough RAM and no system doesnt slow down a couple of seconds before freezing entirely. The freeze is random and instant and it happens sometimes when i slide laptop so i think its due to RAM loose connection. Not sure if the RAM is soldered one or is detachable. I will try to replug it and see if it fixes the problem. btw the machine in question is macbook pro 2012 and thanks for replying kind stranger!

Edit: the ram is detachable.

nope this is macbook pro 2012

| What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.

	Subsystem: Apple Inc. 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [106b:00fa]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
	Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:7270]```

What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.

for context, i have been using debian 12 for last 6 months perfectly fine. Its just from last week my laptop is randomly freezing and then I have to hard reset it everytime this happens, (pressing power off button for few seconds to force shutdown).

Windows: System needs repairing Me: proceeds to install linux mint

You guys use antivirus on linux?