If you have problems with Kernel 6.4.1, report here please

I have a Tuxedo Polaris laptop and with kernel 6.4.1 the touchpad is defunct right after booting.

Works ok in 6.1.37 lts.

Regarding conky: There’s a general issue with the 6.4 kernel, it is tracked here [1].

[1] https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/issues/1544

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this might help, updating bios or downgrading ā€˜linux-firmware’ https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/having-weird-freezes-recently/42726/8

OK, I tested; that IRQ error appears always with 6.4.1, doesn’t matter whether TPM is turned on or off. IDK whether it’s the cause of the performance issues or not but anyway, I’m staying with 6.3.9 for some time as there are no issues at all :slight_smile:

I don’t know either if it’s the cause of the performance issues but my thinking say’s probably not. I think it’s more just an error with the newer kernel. But i don’t really know. I agree with just waiting till another kernel version and try.

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I just had a crash with Firefox. First one and it is related to the amdgpu driver using Wayland so i just sent the crash report automatically to Mozilla.

I am not sure if this is because of kernel 6.4.1., but my two installations of EOS became weird since yesterday or so. I think the problem occurs after sleep/awake. FireFox often show ā€œnot respondingā€, and video playback became fast or slow. Sounds not coming out (I had to kill pipewire), etc. Am I the only one who is having these problems?

Two systems use two different hardware configurations. One is Intel CPU, the other is AMD CPU. One is on-board iGPU, the other is Intel Arc GPU.

updated, atm I am not experiencing any problem (AMD CPU/GPU)

I only had Firefox crashing a couple of times. For the rest, EOS seems to work fine. I also checked the output of journalctl, but I did not find any error message.

apparently i did this and not the update. I think it was a cache or some kind of temp memory issue as it’s cleared up and no longer doing this. Apparently the only trouble this kernel has produced for me is between the keyboard and chair :roll_eyes:

Version 6.4.1.arch2-1 is in the core-testing repo.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/commit/61f3316308c3adbb7c62f6c6351f965014c4444d

CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK=y
# CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK is not set

It seems that they applied the patch mentioned here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/306e4057-5e40-f0c1-d06b-2adab0eee37d@gmail.com/T/

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Is this a virtual memory address lock?

I think so, I searched what the VMA stands for but I couldn’t find it..

Maybe virtual memory address?

Could be.. I searched for 10 minutes yesterday and I no glue yet.. :rofl:

I’m guessing! :rofl:

Kernel 6.4.1.arch2-1 hit the repo, perhaps this solves the issue? I also had Firefox and the entire system freezing with the arch 1-1 version on a Ryzen 4000 series, I will follow up if this update resolved the issue.

Upgraded just now, I’ll be testing it too.

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I didn’t have any freezes at all for the past hour and I opened a lot of tabs within Firefox and had 6 apps open.
Previously, Firefox crashed already with three tabs open and opening a new page with an email link, causing the entire system to freeze. So, from my side, the issue seems to be resolved.

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I was testing and boom, power outage… :sweat_smile: