Bug#1117599: linux-image-6.16.9+deb14-amd64: GPU hangs three times after starting chromium

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:06:41AM +0200, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> On 2025-10-09 22:36, Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > When I rebooted, it rebooted into the upgraded kernel (6.16), and it had
> > the same GPU hangs.  So, I will try earlier chromiums (with kernel 6.16
> > at first).  I think that it was chromium 140, but I will try a few
> > versions.
> 
> I've just tried chromium v140 (with a current kernel -- see below), and
> it worked fine (no GPU hang).
> 
> $ dpkg -l 'chromium*' | grep '^ii'
> ii  chromium                 140.0.7339.185-1 amd64        web browser
> ii  chromium-common          140.0.7339.185-1 amd64        web browser - common resources used by the chromium packages
> ii  chromium-sandbox         140.0.7339.185-1 amd64        web browser - setuid security sandbox for chromium
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux insight 6.16.9+deb14-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.16.9-1 (2025-09-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks for reporting back, so likely this is actually a an older i915
related bug (there are similar older hanging GPU reports), but just
now triggered on at least your system.

I'm removing the moreinfo tag, and we now have to thinker more on how
to proceed.

Regards,
Salvatore