On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 09:39:21AM -0600, Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote: > One more thing, I'm actually on kernel version 4.19.0.8, but again, > this issue started when I upgraded to beowulf.
I've been on beowulf for months now, doing the usual upgrades every few weeks, but only started experiencing freezes in the past week or two. I don't know what causes them. hendrik@midwinter:~$ uname -a Linux midwinter 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux hendrik@midwinter:~$ -- hendrik > > On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 09:34 -0600, Gabe Stanton via Dng wrote: > > I've had problems with my machine freezing as well, same symptoms, > > ever > > since upgrading to beowulf. The issue for me seems to happen when I > > run > > a cpu/ram heavy program, specifically a cpu cryptominer. I've had it > > happen a number of times, always when mining with max 2 cores, but > > haven't dedicated the time to report it properly. I did look through > > various logs in /var/logs but I didn't see anything seemed relevant > > to > > the problem. > > > > I'll try to reproduce it today and send any relevant logs. > > > > What logs specifically would be relevant to this issue? > > > > Something relevant to the spectre/meltdown mitigations, I have > > multithreading turned off in the bios and have had since the vuln's > > were revealed. > > > > Also, 64 bit intel cpu here as well. > > > > On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 03:17 +0000, tuxd3v wrote: > > > Hello Riccardo, > > > > > > > On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 12:19:52 +0100 > > > > Riccardo Mottola via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> >wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I am using Devuan on an HP laptop with intel 64bit cpu. > > > > Everything > > > > worked very well, I did a lot of compilation and it is very > > > > stable, > > > > never had a freeze in months! > > > > > > > > [ 0.100000] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ > > > > 2.00GHz > > > > (family: 0x6, model: 0xf, stepping: 0x6) > > > > [ 0.100000] Performance Events: PEBS fmt0-, Core2 events, > > > > Intel > > > > PMU > > > > driver. > > > > [ 0.100000] core: PEBS disabled due to CPU errata > > > > > > > > Yesterday I installed a kernel upgrade, bad things happened > > > > > > > > 1) after the first reboot with the new kernel, I get up to my > > > > desktop, > > > > check out sources ad start building Arctic Fox browser, come back > > > > after > > > > a time and find the machine completely frozen - no disk activity, > > > > no > > > > mouse possible, no errors. No response to power button pressed > > > > (had > > > > to > > > > press 5 seconds) > > > > > > > > 2) at reboot, machine freezes quite early in the boot process > > > > > > > > 3) I retry and it still freezes > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried selecting in GRUB the older kernel and it boots. It goes > > > > past > > > > the last error, starts file system check/journal replay and the > > > > machine > > > > seems stable again. > > > > > > > > > > > > This is the last good kernel version: > > > > > > > > 4.9.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.189-3+deb9u2 (2019-11-11) x86_64 > > > > GNU/Linux > > > > > > > > > > > > the unstable version must be the version 4.9.210-1 installed > > > > > > > > > > > > What could the issue be? I read about backports of spectre > > > > mitigations > > > > being possible issues. > > > > > > > > > > * 'linux-image-4.9.0-12' - I believe , brings Meltdown, Spectre and > > > such mitigation's with it, also fix's.. > > > * 'linux-image-4.9.0-11' - Here , sometimes( firefox + youtube > > > videos > > > ), I also have freezes, but the machine ends rebooting.. > > > Don't know why, never found the real > > > reason for it.. > > > If I don't go on youtube, everything > > > works, so focus your self on your taks, > > > and don't be lazy( its what my computer > > > tells me ) :D > > > > > > For a better understanding of the changes, you can check: > > > ~# zless /usr/share/doc/linux-image-$(uname -r)/changelog.Debian.gz > > > > > > > > > I am also in 'linux-image-4.9.0-11'..and I plan to be there for > > > some > > > time.. :) > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > tux > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
