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I’m trying to understand if I caused this or just exposed an existing issue.

System: Arch Linux (KDE), 16GB RAM, using zram (no disk swap), NVMe SSD.

I had a lot of apps open (many Firefox tabs + a VM), and my RAM got completely full. The system froze (likely OOM), and I left it like that for ~10–15 minutes. It never recovered, so I force powered it off.

After that:

- System wouldn’t boot properly

- SSD sometimes not detected

- I/O errors ("nvme", "Buffer I/O error")

- "fsck" failed

- Reinstalling Arch fails with “failure writing output to destination”

- Formatting + simple tests sometimes work, but it fails under real load

SMART shows “PASSED”, but has ~13k error log entries.

Questions:

1. Could the freeze + forced shutdown trigger this?

2. Or was the SSD already failing and this just exposed it?

3. Has anyone seen NVMe drives behave like this (works sometimes, fails under load)?

logs !!! Screenshots. !!

Thanks!

So i have 16gb ram(also zram), all the time I have a lot of firefox tab open, also had a vm running. So at one point my ram filled up and system got stuck , (I should have restarted immediately) so I just thought maaan, and started doom scrolling without restarting my pc , after 15 minutes when I look at my screen I see the blue screen of death ☠️, and that's when I force off my pc , when I tried to turn it on again my ssd wasn't working.

Has anyone encountered the same situation, did I do anything stupid

So i have 16gb ram(also zram), all the time I have a lot of firefox tab open, also had a vm running. So at one point my ram filled up and system got stuck , (I should have restarted immediately) so I just thought maaan, and started doom scrolling without restarting my pc , after 15 minutes when I look at my screen I see the blue screen of death ☠️, and that's when I force off my pc , when I tried to turn it on again my ssd wasn't working.

Has anyone encountered the same situation, did I do anything stupid

Edit: I'm sure my ssd is failing it has i/o error, tried formatting it, which worked, then tried reinstalling arch which doenst work, it shows I/O or smthn between the installion

drive link for log messages