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 20221214-1 unstable and Debian still
crashes after a few minutes/hours. The machine completely freezes/locks up.
The graphic card is not defective, installed windows to test, played a few
games, and had no issue in windows (I hate windows). Tried with Linux Mint
with proprietary drivers, and no issues, works flawless, no crashes or
issues in games with wine and games with a virtual machine.
This is a SERIOUS problem and after a few months, the issue is not solved.

Regards
Rui Dinis


-----Original Message-----
From: Rui Dinis <the.wingmanx@gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 10:04
To: '1022559@bugs.debian.org' <1022559@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: RE: Bug#1022559: firmware-misc-nonfree: With firmware-misc-nonfree
instaled, system crashes (complete freeze/lockup) every few minutes

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