On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 05:53:29PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > >Synopsis: OS crashes frequently > >Category: system > >Environment: > System : OpenBSD 7.8 > Details : OpenBSD 7.8 (GENERIC.MP) #54: Sun Oct 12 12:58:11 MDT 2025 > > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64 > Machine : amd64 > > Since upgrade to 7.8 I've got: > Two crashes, thrown to tty, no key press response. > Two crashes into ddb. > Four freezes - a still desktop, fan at max, no mouse/kbd response. > > IIRC these occured while running ungoogled-chromium. > Around half of them occured upon switching windows > from ungoogled-chromium to another program. > I.e. I had ungoogled-chromium focused, > then I switched to smth else with alttab program > and immediately got a crash or freeze. > > If I run firefox, OpenBSD doesn't crash or freeze. > I don't know whether the same behavior is there in 7.7 release > as didn't use ungoogled-chromium extensively on 7.7. > > Tarball with screen photos of tty and ddb, 12MB: > https://freeshell.de/v11e/OpenBSD_7.8_crash_report_2025_11.tar
Looking only at the first panic, I've fixed this in -current. See this previous report: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=176333141103498&w=2 Either update to -current, build a -stable kernel with the patch applied, or wait for a possible errata to be published (no idea yet whether it will happen). -- jca
