I installed Manjaro on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (gen 9) and switched to the Kernel 5.14.10. I am experiencing very frequent process crashes (but intermittently - sometimes nothing crashes for hours, then maybe 3-4 processes within 5 minutes). It’s mostly browser tabs (I tested Firefox, Chrome and other Chrome based browsers) but could be anything - usually processes that use a lot of memory, I guess?
I tried a lot of things, including switching to the LTS kernel, upgrading the BIOS (to 1.48), installing and activating TLP, even reinstalling Manjaro.
I read that this might be related to memory issues, but I did a 4 pass memtest86 test (overnight) resulting in no errors. Also the Lenovo test reported that all is well. I also tried to build a linux kernel for a stress test without any problem.
I feel like it might have something to do with the CPU cstates somehow (even though this topic is entirely new to me, I just repeat what I read online) - If I pass the kernel option max_cstate=1 everything seems to be working well (I didn’t have a single segfault with this option for days). But that comes with a massive hit on battery runtime. I can’t put it to sleep either (or the battery will be drained after an hour or so).
Here’s a link to some of the segfault output (probably not very helpful - rather for illustration purposes):
Nov 04 19:53:21 chmanie systemd-coredump[58202]: Process 1606 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 04 21:59:25 chmanie systemd-coredump[7728]: Process 6384 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 04 22:13:18 chmanie systemd-coredump[9730]: Process 8834 (geoclue) of user 971 dumped core.
Nov 05 09:44:23 chmanie systemd-coredump[3170]: Process 2299 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 06 16:37:45 chmanie systemd-coredump[37521]: Process 36637 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 06 18:06:04 chmanie systemd-coredump[20380]: Process 20344 (electron) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 07 16:53:36 chmanie systemd-coredump[25025]: Process 21923 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 07 17:56:33 chmanie systemd-coredump[29174]: Process 26254 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 07 21:45:29 chmanie systemd-coredump[61971]: Process 33560 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 11:07:31 chmanie systemd-coredump[8078]: Process 7348 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 14:25:40 chmanie systemd-coredump[33393]: Process 31881 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 16:37:28 chmanie systemd-coredump[61782]: Process 34038 (chromium) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 16:39:50 chmanie systemd-coredump[63083]: Process 63002 (systemd-coredum) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 18:40:36 chmanie systemd-coredump[9813]: Process 9799 (systemd-coredum) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 18:51:20 chmanie systemd-coredump[10080]: Process 1725 (QtWebEngineProc) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 18:54:06 chmanie systemd-coredump[10148]: Process 3612 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 18:54:07 chmanie systemd-coredump[10149]: Process 3643 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 21:29:00 chmanie systemd-coredump[10126]: Process 9715 (systemd-journal) of user 0 dumped core.
Nov 08 21:29:00 chmanie systemd-coredump[10126]: Coredump diverted to /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.systemd-journal.0.c39209882dfb464aa0e78fedb9760b15.9715.1636403340000000.zst
Nov 08 21:29:00 chmanie systemd-coredump[10154]: Process 924 (boltd) of user 0 dumped core.
Nov 08 21:29:00 chmanie systemd-coredump[10158]: Process 878 (systemd-logind) of user 0 dumped core.
Nov 08 21:40:18 chmanie systemd-coredump[2290]: Process 2267 (chromium) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 21:43:46 chmanie systemd-coredump[4145]: Process 4142 (qutebrowser) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:09:03 chmanie systemd-coredump[5156]: Process 4013 (nvim) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:42:03 chmanie systemd-coredump[7231]: Process 7225 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:42:59 chmanie systemd-coredump[7344]: Process 7338 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:46:21 chmanie systemd-coredump[1964]: Process 1959 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:46:46 chmanie systemd-coredump[2046]: Process 2042 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:46:58 chmanie systemd-coredump[2084]: Process 2080 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 22:47:20 chmanie systemd-coredump[2144]: Process 1463 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 23:27:41 chmanie systemd-coredump[10326]: Process 7982 (node) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 08 23:37:28 chmanie systemd-coredump[11764]: Process 2531 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 10:30:21 chmanie systemd-coredump[22039]: Process 21863 (systemd-coredum) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 10:41:43 chmanie systemd-coredump[22965]: Process 22959 (pinentry-qt) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 10:42:40 chmanie systemd-coredump[23077]: Process 23047 (signal-desktop) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 10:44:08 chmanie systemd-coredump[23343]: Process 12180 (gnome-shell) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 20:43:46 chmanie systemd-coredump[96053]: Process 59568 (kitty) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 21:26:13 chmanie systemd-coredump[104307]: Process 98357 (QtWebEngineProc) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 22:20:46 chmanie systemd-coredump[2161]: Process 1961 (QtWebEngineProc) of user 1000 dumped core.
Nov 09 23:12:20 chmanie systemd-coredump[2733]: Process 1946 (QtWebEngineProc) of user 1000 dumped core.
When looking at stack traces, this is almost always the first line:
Nov 08 21:29:00 chmanie systemd-coredump[10126]: Found module linux-vdso.so.1 with build-id: e816248c0af862094290c3aba368ce81d17fed89
And the output of inxi:
System:
Kernel: 5.10.70-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
root=UUID=14056923-ff7c-4b60-bd4f-0cb345b00d62 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4:luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4
root=/dev/mapper/luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-8a643cb4-f39f-415a-9011-4c0ae8b9ed51
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: sway 1.6.1 vt: 2 dm: GDM 40.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20XWCTO1WW v: ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20XWCTO1WW serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
v: N32ET72W (1.48 ) date: 10/08/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 57.2/57.0 Wh (100.4%)
volts: 17.7 min: 15.4 model: Celxpert 5B10W13974 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: Full cycles: 39
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.08 GiB used: 3.57 GiB (11.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-1165G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake family: 6 model-id: 8C (140) stepping: 1 microcode: 88
cache: L2: 12 MiB bogomips: 44864
Speed: 509 MHz min/max: 400/1200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 509 2: 970 3: 562
4: 738 5: 1001 6: 982 7: 653 8: 792
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
arch_perfmon art avx avx2 avx512_bitalg avx512_vbmi2 avx512_vnni
avx512_vp2intersect avx512_vpopcntdq avx512bw avx512cd avx512dq avx512f
avx512ifma avx512vbmi avx512vl bmi1 bmi2 bts cat_l2 cdp_l2 clflush
clflushopt clwb cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl
dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma
fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr gfni ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify
hwp_pkg_req ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm
lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe movdir64b movdiri msr mtrr nonstop_tsc
nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pku pln pni
popcnt pse pse36 pts rdpid rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep
sha_ni smap smep split_lock_detect ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
tsc_known_freq umip vaes vme vmx vnmi vpclmulqdq vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-4:3
chip-ID: 04f2:b6ea class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: sway v: 1.6.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: 1
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: sof-audio-pci alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_sof_pci bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.70-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
Sound Server-3: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-4: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-5: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:a0f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
bus-ID: 2-3.2:6 chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enp0s13f0u3u2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 3-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
Device-1: luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4 maj-min: 254:0
type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 467.84 GiB
Components:
p-1: nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 467.84 GiB
Device-2: luks-8a643cb4-f39f-415a-9011-4c0ae8b9ed51 maj-min: 254:1
type: LUKS dm: dm-1 size: 8.8 GiB
Components:
p-1: nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 8.8 GiB
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 37.44 GiB (7.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: KIOXIA model: N/A size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5114AJLA temp: 30.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37.44 GiB (8.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4 label: N/A
uuid: 14056923-ff7c-4b60-bd4f-0cb345b00d62
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 712 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: NO_LABEL uuid: 1EEB-C0A9
ID-3: /home raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37.44 GiB (8.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4 label: N/A
uuid: 14056923-ff7c-4b60-bd4f-0cb345b00d62
ID-4: /var/cache raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37.44 GiB (8.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4 label: N/A
uuid: 14056923-ff7c-4b60-bd4f-0cb345b00d62
ID-5: /var/log raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 467.84 GiB (100.00%)
used: 37.44 GiB (8.0%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0
mapped: luks-0b106b1e-bb96-436b-8bc4-b2a34cdfdda4 label: N/A
uuid: 14056923-ff7c-4b60-bd4f-0cb345b00d62
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1
mapped: luks-8a643cb4-f39f-415a-9011-4c0ae8b9ed51 label: swap
uuid: b3a185db-6be5-418c-acde-46c7f51227cd
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Hub-3: 2-3:5 info: VIA Labs USB3.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 2109:0817 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-3.2:6 info: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
type: Network driver: r8152 interfaces: 1 rev: 3.2 speed: 5 Gb/s
power: 288mA chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Hub-4: 2-3.3:7 info: VIA Labs USB3.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 2109:0817 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-3:2 info: Synaptics type: <vendor specific> driver: N/A
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 06cb:00fc
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-4:3 info: Chicony Integrated Camera type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b6ea
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Hub-6: 3-6:9 info: VIA Labs USB2.0 Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2817 class-ID: 0900
Hub-7: 3-6.3:10 info: VIA Labs USB2.0 Hub ports: 5 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip-ID: 2109:2817 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-7:5 info: Yubicom Yubikey 4/5 U2F+CCID type: HID,Smart Card
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 30mA
chip-ID: 1050:0406 class-ID: 0b00
Device-2: 3-10:6 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Hub-8: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Processes: 256 Uptime: 3h 5m wakeups: 12042 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1208 lib: 300
Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.08
Is there anything that I’m overlooking? Or is that even just normal (this is my first Linux desktop machine, ever - coming from a long line of macs)?