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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Linus is always good value. Looks like we will hit 10 million git objectives on the 6.9 release. What a day to be alive. First 4.20 and now 6.9. truly blessed

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget we also had 6.6.6

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I totally did miss it. All of 6.6 bricked my system. Only after rebuilding against 6.8 did it boot correctly. (Probably a user issue rather than a kernel issue)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Need to give this a shot. I'm still stuck on 6.6 since 6.7 introduced some obscure bug that's freezing AMD systems.

[–] kugmo 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The only 6.7 AMD issue (feature) I'm aware of is the amdgpu patch that gets the tdp limits from the vbios so you can't undervolt as much vs older kernels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's not that widespread as far as I can tell. I gave details elsewhere and included a few other places where people were reporting it. Not sure if it's tied to AMD GPUs, AMD CPUs, etc., but the common thread is that everyone I saw reporting it was using AMD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which AMD systems? I've got a Zen 2, Zen 3+ and a Zen 4 and haven't experienced any freezing with 6.7.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ryzen 5 2600X w/ an RX580.

I detailed the issue here. Very persistent and tricky issue to track since there's no reproducible steps and it generates no errors. Happens under zero load, full load, after 5 minutes, 2 hours... it's about as random and as you can get. And yes, RAM is fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had this issue and it went away on newer 6.7 releases

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I made it a few hours in on 6.7.9 yesterday after this thread inspired me to check. Still persists and I can now tell if the system is going to hang by starting a video on my second monitor and playing a few minutes of Warframe. The system kind of "stumbles" but won't crash right away. It might even take a few hours to go down, but I know if that happens then the kernel is no good. Happy you got it sorted, though! Lucky for me 6.6 is LTS for a few more years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Having the same experience with a 5700 XT. 6.7.9 breaks all the same, so stuck on 6.6 LTS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I can't use 6.7 because of Microsoft of all reasons. https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/868