Hi all,
my system developed some serious issues, escalating over the last half year and frankly, I’m out of ideas to try, I don’t know how and what to test anymore and I’m not the most advanced user linux has ever seen, too, to be honest, so I need some help.
I’m aware that this issue might not be manjaros fault at all, but on the other hand someone knowing manjaros behavior regarding hardware issues might spot what’s wrong. I suspect a hardware issue, at least. I might be totally wrong there, though.
I will try to list everything that’s not perfectly normal behavior, even if it’s not related at all in case I missed some freak connection there.
In a nutshell, some programs randomly crash without giving much information about it, or worse, contradicting information and escalating until they don’t start at all.
First issue I recall ever having with this system was problems booting up. Regularly (maybe every third bootup?), the mb logo would show up and stay indefinitely without giving the option to go into UEFI. Was solved with just restarting. This barely happens now, fixed itself apparently? Weird stuff, but hey, I won’t complain.
I started to monitor GPU and CPU simply by always having htop and stuff open, just to get a feel for any problems. I didn’t spot any weird behavior there, no spikes or anything and I kind of forgot about it.
I switched to a browser called vivaldi and was quite happy with that until I got tabcrashes, first just sometimes, was easily fixed with reloading said tab but that soon escalated into me not really being able to use that browser at all. I switched back to firefox which worked for some time but soon developed similar problems until vivaldi and firefox crashed completely and would continue to crash upon reload, console outputs are seen here:
https://ibb.co/Jc56YPw (First part vivaldi tab crash)
https://ibb.co/kyFRG2r (Second part vivaldi tab crash)
https://ibb.co/1spnMk4 (Firefox crash, as you can see, he tried to restart himself multiple times)
(that’s too much to write out, I’m sorry. Also, the vaapi issue seen here was fixed with a simple vaapi update, but didn’t change the main issue.)
This development stretched out over a month, maybe two. No other program had any issues at all, just browsers. Eventually vivaldi refused to open at all, reporting back “Speicherzugriffsfehler” which is german for memory access violation, I guess.
$ LIBVA_MESSAGING_LEVEL=2 vivaldi-stable
[0329/163813.292535:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
[0329/163813.292793:ERROR:elf_dynamic_array_reader.h(64)] tag not found
Speicherzugriffsfehler (Speicherabzug geschrieben)
$
At this point I made some extensive memtests of all disks and RAM, I did and do not get any issues back there at all. Specifically, I used metester to test RAM and smartctl -t long -a and badblocks -v to test every disk I have (feel free to suggest other methods, that’s just what 20mins of google spat out for me). Eventually, I had to reset the system and, naively thinking that a reset should fix anything like this, switched from xfce to kde on a whim.
So, happy as a clam, I go about my day, browsing and gaming and stuff, until: Vivaldi tab crashes. Uh…
$ /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable %U
[2931:2931:0402/210019.399092:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "syncDetachedTabInformation: The message port closed before a response was received.", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/bundle.js (1)
[2931:2931:0402/210019.399233:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "syncDetachedTabInformation: The message port closed before a response was received.", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/bundle.js (1)
[2931:2931:0402/210019.792670:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "syncDetachedTabInformation: The message port closed before a response was received.", source: chrome-extension://mpognobbkildjkofajifpdfhcoklimli/bundle.js (1)
[2931:2931:0402/210020.145513:ERROR:sharing_service.cc(222)] Device registration failed with fatal error
[2931:3023:0402/210020.650013:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(227)] START: ReportBluetoothAvailability(). If you dont see the END: message, this is crbug.com/1216328.
[2931:3023:0402/210020.650035:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(230)] END: ReportBluetoothAvailability()
(No full program crash here, just tab crash. Also, I use manjaro and vivaldi on my laptop and I get these chrome-extension errors there, too, but do not have any issues)
Firefox is acting up again, too, like it started the first time, slowly escalating.
I noticed today that thunderbird does not start without issues. Had to try about three times and with how things escalated for vivaldi and firefox… I am scared, help :D.
$ /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird %u
[calBackendLoader] Using Thunderbirds libical backend
[LDAPModuleLoader] Using LDAPDirectory.jsm
[MsgSendModuleLoader] Using MessageSend.jsm
[SmtpModuleLoader] Using SmtpService.jsm
JavaScript error: resource://modules/MessengerContentHandler.jsm, line 76: NS_ERROR_FAILURE:
$
I’m starting to suspect Steam has issues as well, but I don’t want to commit to that statement, yet. Gaming on linux is inherently unstable and this might just be a normal “I don’t want to, go beg me”-issue that will fix itself with time.
Some infos on the system:
The disks are 2 years or younger and CPU (Ryzen 7 3800X), GPU (GTX 1660ti) and MB (msi MPG X570 G Plus) are about a year old, so are two RAM sticks. The other two are about a month old, bought after this issue started. Powersupply is the only thing that’s really old, I guess. I use two hdds, a ssd and a M2 ssd, M2 has the manjaro partition, but it was on the slower ssd before the reset.
Edit: See below post for more.
I am totally aware that this issue is not so easy to point at but I will gladly test anything you can suggest or even think of at this point, including and not ending at shaman rituals and blood sacrifices :D.
At the very least,
thanks for reading through <3
Nandalee
“Manjaro monster os eats Ryzen as breakfast”.