Public bug reported:

Filing separately per Daniel van Vugt's request on bug #2075526, since
my hardware and symptom profile differ from the other reporters there.

Hardware:
- Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7
- CPU: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H (Meteor Lake)
- iGPU: Intel Arc Graphics (Meteor Lake-P, rev 08) — drives both displays
- Discrete GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU — not involved in 
display output (hybrid/Optimus, unused for this bug)
- Displays: internal eDP panel + external LG HDR 4K monitor via Thunderbolt 
dock (MST)

Software:
- Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
- Kernel: 6.17.0-35-generic (HWE)
- gnome-shell 46.0-0ubuntu6~24.04.14 / mutter-common 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.16
- Session: Wayland

Symptom:
The external (non-primary) monitor freezes completely — image, and the mouse 
cursor stops moving on that screen entirely — while the internal laptop panel 
keeps working normally. Audio from a video playing on the frozen screen 
(YouTube) continues uninterrupted, confirming this is a display/compositor 
stall, not an application pause or a hang of the playing process.

Observed twice within an hour of normal use (not around suspend/resume).
No relevant errors appear in the kernel or gnome-shell logs at the time
of the freeze — journalctl is silent for drm/i915/mutter around the
event, which rules out a driver-level fault (unlike comment #14 on
#2075526, which showed DMAR/IOMMU faults — my case shows no such
errors).

Recovery: switching to a VT and back (Ctrl+Alt+F3, then Ctrl+Alt+F2)
immediately unfreezes the display without losing the session, consistent
with a stuck frame-clock/present cycle that a forced modeset clears.

Workaround: Setting MUTTER_DEBUG_FORCE_KMS_MODE=simple in
/etc/environment appears to reduce/prevent the freeze (limited
observation so far, ~1 day).

Happy to attach journalctl output or a mutter --replace trace if useful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: mutter (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.17.0-35.35~24.04.1-generic 6.17.13
Uname: Linux 6.17.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.2-0ubuntu0.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckMismatches: ./.disk/casper-uuid-oem ./boot/grub/efi.img 
./boot/grub/grub.cfg ./casper/initrd
CasperMD5CheckResult: fail
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 29 21:32:39 2026
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-sutton-jammy-amd64-20240705-908
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-07-12 (747 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - 
pc-sutton-jammy-amd64-20240705-908
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: mutter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble wayland-session

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Title:
  External monitor freezes completely (incl. cursor) on Meteor Lake
  iGPU, audio continues — likely triple-buffering, distinct from
  #2075526

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