Laptop sometimes hard reboots when scrolling in Twitter
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This is one of the weirdest issues I have ever had:
When scrolling in Twitter in a browser, the laptop suddenly does a hard restart. This can happen multiple times a day or it can take a few days before it happens. I cannot provoke the error reliably.
It started around September 2024.
* The laptop passes RAM test (24h)
* It happens both in Firefox and in Brave
* Scrolling can be done by touchpad or page-down. Same issue.
* Same issue when using Intel or nVidia driver
* No issue scrolling in, say, Instagram or in programs like LibreOffice
* Laptop passes CPU stress test (8 hours of:
s-tui stress
; glxgears
; VLC playing 2 video streams at 8Mbps each)
* Running kernel 6.8.0-40 gives same issue
It is not due to cooling: The boot can happen a high load or a low load.
Is there any stress test I can run on the graphics cards? My best guess is that the scrolling sometimes triggers some sort of bug in the cards.
Maybe a new optimization introduced in August in X.org triggers this? Can I run a test of all X.org commands?
Can I ask X.org to be "less optimized"?
OS: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 24.04
Graphics cards:
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 740M] (rev a1)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
~~~
journalctl -b -1
looks like it would if the power just disappeared: 100% normal and then nothing.
Asked by Ole Tange
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Dec 14, 2024, 01:51 PM
Last activity: Dec 15, 2024, 06:41 AM
Last activity: Dec 15, 2024, 06:41 AM