Bug#1022559: firmware-misc-nonfree: With firmware-misc-nonfree instaled, system crashes (complete freeze/lockup) every few minutes

["Rui Dinis" <the.wingmanx@gmail.com>]

Hi.

Installed the new firmware-nonfree 20221109-2 (unstable) and Debian still
crashes after a few minutes/hours. The machine completely freezes/locks up.

Regards
Rui Dinis



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-----Original Message-----
From: Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2022 20:48
To: Rui Dinis <the.wingmanx@gmail.com>; 1022559@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#1022559: firmware-misc-nonfree: With firmware-misc-nonfree
instaled, system crashes (complete freeze/lockup) every few minutes

Control: tag -1 -moreinfo upstream
Control: found -1 20221012-1

On Friday, 11 November 2022 20:41:56 CET Rui Dinis wrote:
> After further testing with firmware-misc-nonfree 20220913-1 and 
> firmware-misc-nonfree 20221012-1, the problem still persists the 
> machine crashes after several minutes or hours.
> Without this firmware installed, the machine never crashes, is rock solid!

Thanks for testing and reporting back.

> Would it possible to explain me why would the new version correct the 
> problem that I'm having with these crashes?

There were 2 new versions of the firmware then what you reported against and
it could have been that your issue was fixed in the meantime.
Now we know it was not.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/
log/nvidia
actually only shows 1 commit in which new firmware was added, thus no update
to existing ones, so if I had checked that before, I could've known.

What remains is reporting this 'upstream' (to nvidia), but I don't know
where that should be done. Hopefully someone else does.

One reason I didn't check is that I never saw the additional information you
did supply, so for completeness sake, I'll quote that below:

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 22:10:51 +0100 "Rui Dinis" <the.wingmanx@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Here is some aditional information.
> 
> I have a Nvidia Zotac 1080TI mini. With firmware-misc-nonfree 
> installed, system crashes (complete freeze/lockup, no errors on 
> screen) every few minutes/hours, and the only solution is a reset. 
> Without firmware-misc-nonfree, never crashes.
> 
> The package version of firmware-misc-nonfree is 20210818-1
> 
> I'm using 4 screens connected to my Nvidia Graphic Card, and I'm with 
> KDE Plasma.
> 
> Without the package firmware-misc-nonfree installed, the systems 
> throws this errors, but it never crashes:
> 
> # journalctl -b | grep firmware
> 
> Oct 23 20:08:23 Blackbeard kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: 
> failed to load nvidia/gp102/nvdec/scrubber.bin (-2) Oct 23 20:08:23 
> Blackbeard kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load 
> nvidia/gp102/acr/bl.bin (-2) Oct 23 20:08:23 Blackbeard kernel: 
> nouveau 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load nvidia/gp102/acr/bl.bin 
> (-2) Oct 23 20:08:23 Blackbeard kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: acr: 
> firmware unavailable Oct 23 20:08:23 Blackbeard kernel: nouveau 
> 0000:01:00.0: pmu: firmware unavailable Oct 23 20:08:23 Blackbeard 
> kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: firmware unavailable Oct 23 20:08:23 
> Blackbeard kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: sec2: firmware unavailable
> 
> # inxi -G
> Graphics:
>   Device-1: NVIDIA GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] driver: nouveau v: kernel
>   Device-2: Microdia Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo