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Registered: 2025-02-04

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Random Crashes

Hi,

I've recently been experiencing (seemingly random) crashes on my Arch Linux laptop. I'm fairly new to reading and understanding logs, and could do with some help. I can see from journalctl -b -1 that the GPU has started a reset just before the crash, but I can't tell the reason. Here are the last lines of that log:

Feb 04 11:35:03 texmachine rtkit-daemon[1239]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Feb 04 11:35:03 texmachine rtkit-daemon[1239]: Successfully made thread 1764 of process 1223 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Feb 04 11:35:03 texmachine rtkit-daemon[1239]: Supervising 4 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.
Feb 04 11:35:25 texmachine kernel: pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
Feb 04 11:35:25 texmachine kernel: pci_bus 0000:02: Allocating resources
Feb 04 11:37:51 texmachine dbus-broker-launch[735]: Activation request for 'org.bluez' failed: The systemd unit 'dbus-org.bluez.service' could not be found.
Feb 04 11:37:51 texmachine kernel: warning: `ThreadPoolForeg' uses wireless extensions which will stop working for Wi-Fi 7 hardware; use nl80211
Feb 04 11:37:52 texmachine systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
Feb 04 11:37:52 texmachine systemd[1]: efi.automount: Got automount request for /efi, triggered by 764 (systemd-logind)
Feb 04 11:37:52 texmachine systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-diskseq/1-part1...
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd-fsck[2186]: fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd-fsck[2186]: /dev/sda1: 377 files, 3643/127738 clusters
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd[1]: Finished File System Check on /dev/disk/by-diskseq/1-part1.
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd[1]: Mounting EFI System Partition Automount...
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd[1]: Mounted EFI System Partition Automount.
Feb 04 11:37:53 texmachine systemd[1]: Started Daemon for power management.
Feb 04 11:38:41 texmachine csc_vpnagent[786]: Function: GetSettings File: ../../vpn/Agent/ServicePluginMgr.cpp Line: 289 m_pIServicePlugin is NULL
Feb 04 11:38:41 texmachine csc_vpnagent[786]: Function: GetSettings File: ../../vpn/Agent/ServicePluginMgr.cpp Line: 289 m_pIServicePlugin is NULL
Feb 04 11:38:41 texmachine csc_vpnagent[786]: Function: GetSettings File: ../../vpn/Agent/ServicePluginMgr.cpp Line: 289 m_pIServicePlugin is NULL
Feb 04 11:38:41 texmachine csc_vpnagent[786]: Function: GetSettings File: ../../vpn/Agent/ServicePluginMgr.cpp Line: 289 m_pIServicePlugin is NULL
Feb 04 11:38:41 texmachine csc_vpnagent[786]: Function: GetSettings File: ../../vpn/Agent/ServicePluginMgr.cpp Line: 289 m_pIServicePlugin is NULL
Feb 04 11:38:50 texmachine kernel: pci_bus 0000:01: Allocating resources
Feb 04 11:38:50 texmachine kernel: pci_bus 0000:02: Allocating resources
Feb 04 11:38:51 texmachine kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring gfx_low timeout, signaled seq=17241, emitted seq=17243
Feb 04 11:38:51 texmachine kernel: [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process Xorg pid 1322 thread Xorg:cs0 pid 1323
Feb 04 11:38:51 texmachine kernel: amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: GPU reset begin!
Feb 04 11:38:54 texmachine kernel: [drm:amdgpu_cs_ioctl [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Failed to initialize parser -125!
Feb 04 11:38:56 texmachine kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_atomic_check [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:73:crtc-0] hw_done or flip_done timed out
Feb 04 11:39:06 texmachine kernel: [drm:amdgpu_dm_atomic_check [amdgpu]] *ERROR* [CRTC:77:crtc-1] hw_done or flip_done timed out
Feb 04 11:39:09 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Feb 04 11:39:10 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Feb 04 11:39:10 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Feb 04 11:39:10 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Feb 04 11:39:10 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Feb 04 11:39:10 texmachine kernel: psmouse serio1: issuing reconnect request

Any help interpreting would be much appreciated. Also please say if I should add more logs/info. Thanks!

EDIT: adding amdgpu to the modprobe.blacklist seems to stop the crashes, but obviously affects performance quite a lot.

Last edited by half_space (2025-02-04 13:53:41)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,177

Re: Random Crashes

Please wrap outputs in [ code ] and not [ quote ] tags

Try to get rid of xf86-video-amdgpu if that's installed. Which window manager/environment what kind of workload did you have when the issue occured? When is "recently"? Does it coincide with a specific update? There was a major kernel upgrade to 6.13 a few days ago.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Random Crashes

Have you seen https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301798 ?

half_space

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Registered: 2025-02-04

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Re: Random Crashes

@V1del I checked, and xf86-video-amdgpu was installed. I have now removed it. I'm using bspwm as my window manager. The crashes happened during normal usage—mostly web browsing, some terminal work. No heavy gaming or rendering. The issues started about 5 weeks ago.

@Scimmia thanks! This could be related, the timing like similar to my first crashes. If disabling xf86-video-amdgpu doesn't work I'll try downgrading mesa as recommended there

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Registered: 2025-02-04

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Re: Random Crashes

@V1del turns out removing xf86-video-amdgpu did not help I still had the crash. Have now downgraded mesa to 24.2.8 to see if that helps