INFO: task kworker/5:3:434 blocked for more than 368 seconds

I get the following message when trying to shutdown:

INFO: task kworker/5:3:434 blocked for more than 368 seconds
                     Tainted: G           OE     5.12.16-1-MANJARO #1

Here’s my inxi

$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:    Kernel: 5.12.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.22.3 
           tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:   Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 81X2 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 31 v: IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40709 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO v: EECN35WW 
           date: 04/16/2021 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 31.6 Wh (60.2%) condition: 52.5/52.5 Wh (100.0%) volts: 11.6 min: 11.5 
           model: Celxpert L19C3PD6 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Unknown cycles: 1 
CPU:       Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen 2 
           rev: 1 cache: L2: 4 MiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 31958 
           Speed: 3828 MHz min/max: 1400/2000 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3828 2: 2052 
           3: 1756 4: 2321 5: 2547 6: 2594 7: 2437 8: 3393 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 
           class-ID: 0300 
           Device-2: Syntek Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:3 chip-ID: 174f:243f 
           class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: amdgpu 
           resolution: 2560x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.40.0 5.12.16-1-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.1.4 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403 
           Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A 
           bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480 
           Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.16-1-MANJARO running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
           Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
           Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.31 running: no 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822 class-ID: 0280 
           IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.4:3 
           chip-ID: 0bda:8153 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter> 
           IF: enp4s0f3u1u4 state: down mac: <filter> 
Bluetooth: Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:3 
           chip-ID: 0bda:c123 class-ID: e001 serial: <filter> 
           Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: down bt-service: disabled rfk-block: hardware: no 
           software: yes address: see --recommends 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 94.62 GiB (19.8%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB512HBJQ-000L2 size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
           lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3L1QEXF7 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 451.77 GiB used: 94.6 GiB (20.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 16.9 MiB (5.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 
Swap:      ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.58 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.6 C mobo: 35.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 222 Uptime: 2m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.07 GiB used: 1001 MiB (6.5%) Init: systemd 
           v: 248 Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1398 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 
           running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.05 

I think that it’s related to the Device-2: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152 bus-ID: 2-1.4:3

This only happens when the USB/ethernet dongle is connected to the laptop.

My laptop doesn’t have an rj45 plug and I need to connect to an internal network.

Any suggestion on what to do?

Thank you

A kworker process is a kernel worker process and that points you towards:

  • Faulty hardware
  • a bug in the kernel

so do the following in this order and only go to the next point if the previous one did not solve the problem:

  1. Plug the adapter into another USB port
  2. Change the LAN cable with a brand new one
  3. Install both 5.4 and 5.10 LTS (Long Time Support) and see which one of the two troubles you least. (If you don’t know how to do that, please shout out)

:crossed_fingers: