On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 06:38:59PM +0200, M G Berberich wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 01. April schrieb Van Snyder:
> > I don't know whether Firefox does it, or Trixie does it, or the phase
> > of the Moon does it, but every time I push Firefox's "Restart to
> > continue using Firefox" button after an update, Trixie crashes.
> >
> > kinfocenter reports
> >
> > Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13
> > KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.6
> > KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
> > Qt Version: 6.8.2
> > Kernel Version: 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 (64-bit)
> > Graphics Platform: X11
> > Processors: 32 × Intel® Core™ i9-14900K
> > Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.1 GiB usable)
> > Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series
> > Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Graphics
> > Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
> > Product Name: MS-7E06
> > System Version: 3.0
> >
> > Does anybody else have this problem?
> Not the exact same, but similar. Firefox crashed my trixie. Logfiles
> indicated a GPU problem (Radeon R7 250).
> The solution was to disable hardware-acceleration in the firefox
> settings.
I have been getting crashes on Debian Trixie that seem related to the video
card, I can often ssh in to start a shutdown - a reboot is not enough. I have a
Radeon HD 7850. I was going to replace the video card but have not got round to
it.
lshw tells me:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850 / R7 265 / R9 270 1024SP]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master
cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0
resolution=1920,1080
resources: irq:29 memory:d0000000-dfffffff
memory:fdd80000-fddbffff ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
>From journalctl I see:
Mar 01 14:56:24 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 5 stalled
for more than 10236msec
Mar 01 14:56:24 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup
(current fence id 0x00000000000054ca last fence id 0x00000000000054cc on ring 5)
then many:
Mar 01 14:56:24 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: scheduling IB
failed (-35).
Mar 01 14:56:24 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: [drm:radeon_gem_va_ioctl [radeon]]
*ERROR* Couldn't update BO_VA (-35)
A bit later:
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 3 stalled
for more than 10236msec
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup
(current fence id 0x0000000000d8773d last fence id 0x0000000000d87a88 on ring 3)
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 5 stalled
for more than 10752msec
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup
(current fence id 0x00000000000054ca last fence id 0x00000000000054cc on ring 5)
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 0 stalled
for more than 10908msec
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup
(current fence id 0x00000000016b8554 last fence id 0x00000000016b85e5 on ring 0)
Mar 01 14:56:25 mint.phcomp.co.uk kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: scheduling IB
failed (-35).
Later a crash & back-trace (ask me if you really want it).
> Disabled „Use recommended performance settings“
> and „Use hardware acceleration when available“
I have done this (Firefox settings) ... if it does not crash again in the next
week I will deem it fixed.
Regards
--
Alain Williams
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