On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 10:14:11AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > Hello, > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:19:19AM +0200, topaze666 wrote: > > Just a little feedback after a few days' "use". Unfortunately, at this > > stage, my system is unusable because there are far too many crashes. It's > > switching between windows that at some point will inevitably crash the > > system. > > > > Question: could using a previous kernel (while keeping the latest official > > kernel, with the option of switching from grub), provide a temporary > > solution (1), to regain a stable configuration available? I'm talking about > > an older kernel officially provided by Trixie. > > > > (1) I'm aware that this kind of bug is often tricky or time-consuming to > > fix. > > The most time-consuming task is on determining the culprit and you're in > the best position to debug that. > > There are many kernel packages available at > https://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/, can you do a package > bisection and pinpoint the oldest kernel that has this issue? (That is, > pick a kernel somewhat in the middle between 6.1 (from bookworm, good) > and 6.12 (from trixie, bad), say 6.7-1 and test that. Depending on > the result, continue to search between 6.1 and 6.7-1 (if 6.7-1 is > bad) or 6.7-1 and 6.12 (if 6.7-1 still works). Tell us if you need more > guidance here. > > Make sure to uninstall the old kernels at the end to not be exposed to > security issues that are already fixed in later kernels. Another thing you can test is installing a 6.16 kernel from experimental. Best regards Uwe
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