Upgrading #mesa from #debian 18.0.5-1 to 18.1.1-1 a couple of days ago seems to have made my system very unreliable (random hard #freeze / complete #lockup / #crash : not a #kernel #panic , nothing in logs, mouse pointer not operational, numlock not operational, must hold down the power button for a few seconds to halt).
Currently on 18.1.2-1 and no freeze so far, but uptime is only 19min at this point.
Using the free/libre #amdgpu driver for RX 580 graphics card, with #ryzen 7 2700x cpu.
just froze again and had to power cycle, only 2h16m36s uptime :( some of the things I want to run have an estimated runtime of 20h wall-clock minimum, so not happening with this mess :(
not even 100% sure it is a mesa issue, because of the lack of info in logs. this is super frustrating :(
to test the mesa hypothesis, I'll stop X on the desktop and try running the long-running job from text mode console.
uptime over 15 hours without X running. not proof, but does make me more confident that mesa and/or amdgpu driver is somehow to blame for my system freezes.
downgrading mesa on debian buster Show more
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@mathr oho man I spent three days last week figuring out how get a nvidia gpu to work with bumblebee/optimus. It was quite painful.