Random System Freeze

ricklinux · July 30, 2020, 11:12am

Was there another Bios update or did you revert back to a previous?

Lemon · July 30, 2020, 12:39pm

No, I reinstalled the newest one.
I thought that this one might have been corrupt.

But it wasn’t.

Lemon · August 4, 2020, 10:35am

Oooooh nooooo!
My first freeze with the LTS.

Could someone smart look at my log?

http://ix.io/2tbp

ricklinux · August 4, 2020, 3:50pm

The link isn’t working.

Resiliencia · August 4, 2020, 4:22pm

Aug 04 09:45:22 Richard-pc kernel: BIOS ACPI warning (error): 32 / 64X length does not match in FADT / Gpe0Block: 128/32 (20190816 / tbfadt-564)

Aug 04 09:45:22 kernel richard-pc: ACPI FADT declares that the system does not support PCIe ASPM, so disable it

Aug 04 09:45:22 richard-pc kernel: PCI: use of ACPI host bridge windows; if necessary use "pci = nocrs" and report an error

According to the report and as far as I know, you have to disable pcie_aspm = off
Instead enable pci-norcs

Regarding the first error read → https://yovantoh.blogspot.com/2018/03/acpi-bios-warning-bug-length-mismatch.html

It’s not my case.

Lemon · August 4, 2020, 5:51pm

According to Judd it does.

Lemon · August 4, 2020, 5:54pm

Where would I make these changes?

Resiliencia · August 4, 2020, 6:04pm

In the /etc/default/grub file on the following line:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Here is the line:

/etc/default/grub
# GRUB boot loader configuration

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="EndeavourOS"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pci=nocrs"   ← ←here and so.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Stephane · August 4, 2020, 6:55pm

you can also check ACPI

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.dat
iasl -d dsdt.dat

–> check if ACPI is ok and valid

see this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DSDT

ricklinux · August 4, 2020, 8:33pm

I would do both.

aug 04 09:45:22 richard-pc kernel: ACPI FADT declares the system doesn't support PCIe ASPM, so disable it

aug 04 09:45:22 richard-pc kernel: PCI: Using host bridge windows from ACPI; if necessary, use "pci=nocrs" and report a bug

Resiliencia · August 4, 2020, 8:41pm

pcie_aspm = off → no
pcie_aspm=off → yes

It’s all a matter of testing, but the OP’s report said it should be removed …

ricklinux · August 4, 2020, 8:47pm

Yes …testing. Maybe it works…maybe it don’t.

Lemon · August 5, 2020, 8:32am

Okay guys, thanks for helping me.

My grub looks like this now:

# GRUB boot loader configuration

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=2
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="EndeavourOS"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_idle.max_cstate=1 resume=UUID=31fc204a-f877-4128-b63f-ac70b0d5312e loglevel=3 pci=nocrs pcie_aspm=off"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

ricklinux · August 5, 2020, 9:56am

I hope it works for you. All you can do is test with and if it doesn’t cause any problems you should be good.

Lemon · August 5, 2020, 10:38am

Yes, I could even try the newest kernel with this.
See what happens.

Lemon · August 5, 2020, 10:50am

Well, that didn’t last very long, the panel starts to flicker and the mouse pointer freezes a few seconds every 10 seconds with the newest kernel…

ricklinux · August 5, 2020, 12:42pm

Is this intel i915?

Resiliencia · August 5, 2020, 12:51pm

Delete from the line pcie_aspm=off and see if it changes.

Lemon · August 5, 2020, 2:16pm

Yes, it is.
I must say it ran okay since the last post, no more weird panel critters…hmm…

Resiliencia · August 5, 2020, 3:24pm

Has it changed or not ?
It works better, it improved. ?