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keystrok3

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Registered: 2020-09-19

Posts: 4

All windows freeze and cannot perform any actions until I exit to tty

I am running Arch Linux with BSPWM on my laptop. I has core i5 11th gen with RTX 3050 mobile, 16gb ram and an external 27" monitor. Ever since I installed Arch on the laptop the system freezes occasionally and I can't do anything unless I exit to tty by using `ctrl + alt + delete` or tty2 and `kill -9 -1`. In the frozen state, I can move the cursor around but can't click or switch focus to any window. I can't open or close any windows and focus remains on the last focused window. Background applications like my music player continue to function and I can pause and play using media keys. I can also bring up Rofi Launcher with sxhkd key bindings, but no application I select opens. I used to happen like once a week, but it happened 3 times today.  My guess is bspwm has something to do with it.  The journal logs   don't show anything wrong at the time when the crush occurs. I have not noticed any patterns for when the freezes occur, but most of the time I am using Visual Studio Code, but that could just be a statistic since I use it all day. I have searched to see if I can get bspwm to log errors when they occur, but I haven't been successful.

Output of `uname -a`:

 Linux primus 5.18.5-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:40:45 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

Output of `lspci`:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 01)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
0000:00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 11th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation GNA Scoring Accelerator module (rev 01)
0000:00:0d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller
0000:00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM (rev 20)
0000:00:15.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface (rev 20)
0000:00:17.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 09ab
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0bb (rev 20)
0000:00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev 20)
0000:00:1d.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0b1 (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO UART Controller #0 (rev 20)
0000:00:1e.3 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO SPI Controller #1 (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller (rev 20)
0000:00:1f.5 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (rev 20)
0000:01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile] (rev a1)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 16)
0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device a85a
0000:04:00.0 SD Host controller: Genesys Logic, Inc GL9750 SD Host Controller (rev 01)
10000:e0:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device a0d3 (rev 20)
10000:e0:1c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 09ab
10000:e0:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device a0bc (rev 20)
10000:e1:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Toshiba Corporation XG6 NVMe SSD Controller

Output of `pacman -Qs nvidia`:

local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.10-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/envycontrol 2.1.1-1
    Easy GPU switching for Nvidia Optimus laptops under Linux
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 515.48.07-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 515.48.07-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia 515.48.07-11
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/nvidia-settings 515.48.07-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 515.48.07-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/nvtop 2.0.1-1
    An htop like monitoring tool for NVIDIA GPUs

Output of `pacman -Qs intel`

local/intel-ucode 20220510-1
    Microcode update files for Intel CPUs
local/ipw2100-fw 1.3-10
    Intel Centrino Drivers firmware for IPW2100
local/ipw2200-fw 3.1-8
    Firmware for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG
local/libmfx 22.4.2-1
    Intel Media SDK dispatcher library
local/libva-intel-driver 2.4.1-2
    VA-API implementation for Intel G45 and HD Graphics family
local/libva-utils 2.14.0-1
    Intel VA-API Media Applications and Scripts for libva
local/openimagedenoise 1.4.3-1
    Intel(R) Open Image Denoise library
local/tbb 2021.5.0-1
    High level abstract threading library
local/whois 5.5.13-1
    Intelligent WHOIS client
local/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+916+g31486f40-2 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers

if any more details are required, I will provide.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,273

Re: All windows freeze and cannot perform any actions until I exit to tty

Remove xf86-video-intel and try again (and while you're at it, switch libva-intel-driver for intel-media-driver, which is the more modern implementation for newer iGPUs)

Last edited by V1del (2022-06-20 18:59:45)

keystrok3

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Registered: 2020-09-19

Posts: 4

Re: All windows freeze and cannot perform any actions until I exit to tty

I have removed it. I don't know if it is fixed until it happens again, but thanks for the pointer.

keystrok3

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Registered: 2020-09-19

Posts: 4

Re: All windows freeze and cannot perform any actions until I exit to tty

@V1del I experienced the same problem again.  I have uploaded another journal log but it seems to be more or less the same thing I had last time.