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

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mit.edu>]

At least it’s reproducible here, so it might be solvable. I can keep those kernel and chromium packages around for further tests. 

-Sanjoy

> On Oct 10, 2025, at 4:19 PM, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 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