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rihito

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Registered: 2024-01-31

Posts: 1

Updating 'soft-broke' system with amd gpu (linux-hardened issue?)

Hi,
after updating the kernel I used (linux-hardened) yesterday from 6.6.13.hardened1-1 to 6.7.2.hardened1-1 I didn't get any graphics output after the bootloader stage (grub) and the system seemed to be hardlocked early on.

There were no journal entries after the update, nothing worked at all anymore (not even Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot, so I think that the kernel at least got initialized), until I added nomodeset to the kernel's arguments.
Then it started booting up with GUI and all. I tried purging/reinstalling my DE (KDE), it didn't change anything.

The only thing that worked so far is installing 'linux', and booting it instead of it's hardened variant. Any ideas/thoughts/whatever about what I could do there?
I mean I have a working system now, but it'd be nice to be on the hardened kernel again.

CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970X
GPU: AMD Radeon RX6900 XT

raneon

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Registered: 2013-11-02

Posts: 57

Re: Updating 'soft-broke' system with amd gpu (linux-hardened issue?)

Linux 6.7.3-hardened does crash for me as well on my AMD Athlon 3000G. No error message, only a black screen and no IP address to login via SSH. I had to downgrade as well to Linux-lts 6.6.