[Bug 2099748] [NEW] kworker/u32:2+events_unbound kernel thread making computer unusable until reboot

2025-02-22 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: When viewing videos sometimes the kernel thread kworker/u32:2+events_unbound starts to consume 100% CPU while the screen response (including mouse) drops to less than 1 image per second. I managed to crash the kernel and capture the core image of that crash while the kernel wa

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-22 Thread Jozef Behran
I reported the "kworker/u32:2+events_unbound" problem as a Bug #2099748. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2098668 Title: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN T

[Bug 2098897] Re: Random crash or freeze when using high speed USB 4 devices

2025-02-20 Thread Jozef Behran
I enabled crash dumping and triggered the bug but found no crash dump. So I now think that the USB subsystem in my computer is busted. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-20 Thread Jozef Behran
I no longer suspect that this bug can cause Ubuntu to crash or behave abnormally. I have the nouveau driver disabled for now but today I again experienced this bug. The kernel thread name was "kworker/u32:2+events_unbound". Time to file another bug. -- You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 2098897] [NEW] Random crash or freeze when using high speed USB 4 devices

2025-02-19 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: When connecting a high speed external USB disk (essentially a M.2 NVMe disk in a box AXAGON EEM2-SG2), the system either locks up or instantly reboots. There is nothing in /var/syslog indicative of what exactly happened. The system is stable when not running any of these, so i

[Bug 2098897] Re: Random crash or freeze when using high speed USB 4 devices

2025-02-19 Thread Jozef Behran
The lockup/freeze happens in less than a minute after I start to copy a file from the device to the computer. Not using USB storage or using slow USB storage causes no issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-19 Thread Jozef Behran
I finally got around to experimenting with modprobe.blacklist=nouveau. The result is that the problem is gone when there is no nouveau in kernel so this bug definitely is in the nouveau kernel module. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1798601] Re: posix_memalign corrupts heap

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
I am adding a version of the test program that uses ASan to verify no memory bugs occur. ** Attachment added: "An asan enabled version of the posix-memalign test program" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1798601/+attachment/5858625/+files/memalign-asan.tgz -- You receiv

[Bug 1798601] Re: posix_memalign corrupts heap

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
Gone in noble ** Changed in: eglibc (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798601 Title: posix_memalign corrupts heap To manage notifications ab

[Bug 1798601] Re: posix_memalign corrupts heap

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
Gone in noble ** Changed in: mesa (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798601 Title: posix_memalign corrupts heap To manage notifications abou

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
Another workaround would be to disable the offending services: "sudo snapctl stop --disable firmware-updater.firmware-notifier" "sudo systemctl disable fwupd-refresh" "sudo systemctl disable fwupd" Beware that this disables firmware updates for your hardware, though. Also beware that I did not te

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
If the workaround appears to not work, try this quite elaborate process to try and find out why. First enter these two commands: "sudo snap stop firmware-updater.firmware-notifier" "sudo service fwupd-refresh stop" These stop everything that tries to access the broken fwupd service. Now wait un

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
I also suspect that this bug can cause Ubuntu to crash or behave abnormally when this bug is triggered. My experience says that when viewing videos on YouTube, a kernel thread "kworker/u32:0+events_unbound" starts to eat 100% CPU and the GUI becomes extremely unresponsive (it updates roughly once i

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
Changed this to "Incomplete" because I need to do this: > Can you please experiment with modprobe.blacklist=nouveau? (I am waiting for a certain long lasting job to finish, it takes about 3-4 days to do so) Meanwhile could someone running the same hardware ("ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA507NU_FA507NU/F

[Bug 2098668] Re: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN

2025-02-18 Thread Jozef Behran
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2098668 Title: nouveau crashes when fwupd requests DPCD reads on drm_dp_auxN To manage n

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Ok, so now I changed the systemd config to give it 30 minutes to start and while I was at it I added "-vv" to the Exec line (it is in the same file) just out of curiosity whether it would work despite my scepticism. It does so here is the log. And now it makes me think that tpm isn't going to be th

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Ok, here is the complete section of log file with fwupd messing around with nouveau. I suspect the bug is in nouveau. Requests from userspace shall not cause kernel to crash. ** Attachment added: "Complete (and huge) log with fwupd messing with nouveau" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
> Can you please experiment with modprobe.blacklist=nouveau? Unfortunately, no. The ASUS TUF Gaming laptop may need it to run the display. I suspect that because long ago the nvidia hardware got reset and the system could not recover from that cleanly. The result was a computer with dead screen bu

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Ok, now the thing got running and I got the plugin list but I have no idea which plugin to disable. I tried amd_gpu and nvme but no luck. What can I glean from the logs is that the "drm_dp_aux_dev" is the troublemaker here but I have no freaking idea what plugin uses that. After some DuckDuckGoing

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Well it appears I caught something: 2025-02-17T18:52:07.826887+01:00 user-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-A15-FA507NU-FA507NU fwupd[55170]: 17:52:07.824 FuBackendfailed to open device /sys/devices/virtual/drm_dp_aux_dev/drm_dp_aux0: DPCD read failed: failed to read 14: Connection timed out 2025-02-

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Well, getting the name of the TPM module turns out to be harder than I expected. The documentation says "Allow blocking specific plugins by name. Use fwupdmgr get-plugins to get the list of plugins." But running that command tries to start fwupd via systemd which has no hope of working so I need to

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Mario Limonciello (superm1): Great, we are making some progress now. Unfortunately I have to wait again because that stupid fwupd is stuck in that stupid wait (again). Hopefully after I learn about this DisablePlugins key, it will unstuck itself. -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd daemon hangs for a while during TPM access

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Ok, I have more info now. 1. Adding `-vv` to the Exec line in fwupd.service and posting the new log will probably not help. The problem is that fwupd takes 20 minutes to start. 2. There is something rotten in what fwupd is doing. During the 20 minute startup pause the syslog is replete with the D

[Bug 2098668] Re: DPCD accesses with nouveau fail; leading to other problems

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Well, I tried to stop the firmware-updater.firmware-notifier service, running fwupd in verbose mode and then start the firmware- updater.firmware-notifier service again. I noticed two problems: 1. For some reason the fwupd program needs 20 minutes to recognize the TPM module in my computer: 14:38

[Bug 2098668] Re: DPCD accesses with nouveau fail; leading to other problems

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Richard Hughes (richard-hughes): I tried "-v" and I posted what I found two comments above. Will try "-vv" as soon as I am done with my current experiment (it takes about 20 minutes to get rid of a freshly running fwupd. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 2098668] Re: DPCD accesses with nouveau fail; leading to other problems

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Mario Limonciello (superm1): Right now I don't think the nouveau problem has anything to do with this. This is why I tried to remove these (rather large) log parts. I posted the full log so that you could try and find anything else related to fwupd or firmware-updater.firmware- notifier that I miss

[Bug 2098668] Re: fwupd.service fails to start due to timeout

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Additionally I noticed that there is a fwupd process consuming roughly 15% CPU. Trying to kill this process does not work (not even kill -9). I don't understand why because this process isn't stuck in uninterruptible sleep. The process eventually dies and another one replaces it almost immediately,

[Bug 2098668] [NEW] fwupd.service fails to start due to timeout

2025-02-17 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: I was reviewing logs while trying to find evidence of an unrelated issue and found that fwupd.service fails to start due to a timeout. The logs below contain only the failure, I could not find the startup: 2025-02-16T00:03:39.859015+01:00 user-ASUS-TUF-Gaming-A15-FA507NU-FA50

[Bug 2066187] Re: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart properly after GPU reset event

2024-05-23 Thread Jozef Behran
Probably xwayland as my setup does not involve running xorg. Or gnome: why is org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service needed on Wayland? Gnome does not use xwayland to run itself, it runs on wayland natively. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 2066187] Re: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart properly after GPU reset event

2024-05-23 Thread Jozef Behran
When I think about it now, I started to suspect that the Wayland compositor in Gnome went wacko when the GPU reset occured. Unfortunately, I can't replicate this as I have no idea how to easily trigger a GPU reset. Generally submitting a GPU load that overloads it should do the trick but constructi

[Bug 2066187] Re: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart properly after GPU reset event

2024-05-20 Thread Jozef Behran
Ok, now I realized that my system runs on Wayland. So no xorg problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2066187 Title: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart proper

[Bug 2066187] [NEW] org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart properly after GPU reset event

2024-05-20 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: GNOME did not recover successfully from a GPU reset event. The system is still running but no direct interaction with it is possible. Keyboard appears to be running but the screen shows what was on it when the GPU crashed. Attached is a SYSLOG fragment showing the problem. At

[Bug 2066187] Re: org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.XSettings.service fails to restart properly after GPU reset event

2024-05-20 Thread Jozef Behran
It looks the syslog fragment I was talking about in the bug report got lost in the bug submission process. Here it is. ** Attachment added: "SYSLOG fragment showing symptoms of the problem" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2066187/+attachment/5780125/+files/syslogfragment -- You receiv

[Bug 1832436] Re: login page first appears sideways for Lenovo miix 510 ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10

2019-06-21 Thread Jozef Behran
** Also affects: gdm3 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1832436 Title: login page first appears sideways for Lenovo miix 510 ubuntu

[Bug 1833759] [NEW] pulse-audio does not restore volume to streams correctly under kernel 4.4.0-148-generic

2019-06-21 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: This might be also bug in pulse-audio. The problem manifests in these ways: Scenario 1: 1. Assuming output is to a built-in speaker, set the volume to non-100%. 2. Connect an audio output device (e.g. headphones). 3. Set the volume to non-100% but visibly different from

[Bug 1821403] Re: chromium browser crash on fresh offline system install

2019-04-09 Thread Jozef Behran
The chromium-browser metadata needs fixing (as explained in my last comment) so that libnss3 gets upgraded automatically on "apt-get install chromium-browser". ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1821403] Re: chromium browser crash on fresh offline system install

2019-04-09 Thread Jozef Behran
> chromium-browser requires a newer version of libnss3 than what was initially installed. It is the job of the package manager to either upgrade an outdated version of a dependency package when the user tries to install something or to ask the user to update the system first and then try again, no

[Bug 1821403] [NEW] chromium browser crash on fresh offline system install

2019-03-22 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: Steps to reproduce (and also what I expected and what happened): 1. Disconnect computer from Internet 2. Install Ubuntu (complete with reboot at the end). 3. After running the (freshly installed) system, connect it to Internet and open a terminal and follow with the sessio

[Bug 1821403] Re: chromium browser crash on fresh offline system install

2019-03-22 Thread Jozef Behran
The additional attached information was sampled at the time after the chromium-browser successfully completed its install (and after that was confirmed by successfully launching it as shown in the terminal session) so any traces of its misbehavior might be long gone before the attachments were crea

[Bug 1798601] [NEW] posix_memalign corrupts heap

2018-10-18 Thread Jozef Behran
Public bug reported: The attached program exposes a bug in posix_memalign that causes it to either silently corrupt heap or cause the memory allocation checker to report spurious failures. I believe that the former is the case here because on more complex software (minetest or Irrlight tutorial ex