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frumble

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From: Germany

Registered: 2012-05-20

Posts: 165

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linux-firmware updates 1:20260916-1 is freezing my system with em28xx

Yesterday’s firmware package updates made my system freeze after not even ten minutes uptime, reproducible. Mouse was still movable in Plasma but no clicks registered, no keyboard, no jumping to other ttys possible.

It’s the em28xx chip, my Hauppauge TV tuner (WinTV-dualHD). When I do unplug it, I get no freeze.
See the dmesg stuff.

What now? I fear this is an upstream issue…

Last edited by frumble (2026-09-19 19:20:07)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: linux-firmware updates 1:20260916-1 is freezing my system with em28xx

Please post the full kernel output from a boot with the issue as text.  Have you confirmed by downgrading linux-firmware that it is the cause of the issue?