After it was pretty clear a stable kernel wasn't coming any time soon for 19.10 I gave up and took a dangerous leap. The only way I was going to get a 5.4 kernel was to move to 20.04. It was dangerous and I had to get there through a do-release-upgrade -d. Highly not recommended if you don't know what you are doing. I basically backed everything up and planned on things failing. I did it from the command line from multiple root shells launched ahead of time using screen in case X died.
I had Virtualbox 6.1.6 installed before I went through my upgrade. It was not a clean upgrade as something as part of the upgrade process forced the uninstall of Virtualbox 6.1.6. I suspect it was because some of the dependencies of Virtualbox 6.1.6 only existed in Universe on focal Virtualbox 6.1.6 was uninstalled as part of the upgrade to 20.04. The upgrade actually blew up but I knew enough to recover. That blew a lot of things out of the water and was not listed on the upgrade screen or I would not have proceeded. I shutdown virtualbox and let it be temporarily uninstalled. Then I did a apt-get dist-upgrade and once that completed I tried to install Virtualbox 6.1.6 again but failed due to missing dependencies. I regretted doing an apt-get autoremove --purge just before hand. I had to manually download and install libqt5opengl5:amd64 for focal and then an apt-get install -f was able to fix python and in turn Virtualbox 6.1.6. Then once Virtualbox installed things worked again. After all the hell on 19.10 suddenly all my problems are gone. My NIC drivers still work thanks to the updated Intel e1000e 3.8.4 release DKMS package which Intel engineering kindly provided. That badly needs to be native to Ubuntu 20.04 as the kernel driver at least back on 5.3.0 didn't work for me. I have seen no i915 hangs with the kernel 5.4.0-28-generic. I haven't seen any flaky Bluetooth behavior that led to kernel panics but to be fair I didn't need to use Bluetooth audio sink on 20.04 as my HDMI audio pass-through works properly again! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872001 Title: 5.3.0-46-generic - i915 - frequent GPU hangs / resets rcs0 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux source package in Eoan: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, Since update to HWE kernel 5.3.0-46-generic I am experiencing frequent (every couple of minutes) GPU hangs and reset manifesting as 2-3 seconds freezes of the GUI (other than the mouse pointer). No particular triggers identified although have Chrome / Chromium running with Hardware Acceleration enabled does appear to increase the frequency. I have seen incidences of these hangs in jounralctl output using previous kernels in the 5.3.0-xx series but they were very infrequent (one or twice in a week of daily usage) System Info steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ inxi -SCGxxxz System: Host: steve-Inspiron-5580 Kernel: 5.3.0-46-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8265U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake rev: B L2 cache: 6144 KiB flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800 Speed: 1173 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 Graphics: Device-1: Intel vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3ea0 Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics (Whiskey Lake 3x8 GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.8 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ journalctl -b | grep i915 Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4) Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20190619 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0 Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device Apr 10 06:15:17 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1f.3: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915]) Apr 10 06:16:28 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: GPU HANG: ecode 9:0:0x00000000, hang on rcs0 Apr 10 06:16:28 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0 Apr 10 06:31:46 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0 Apr 10 06:37:48 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0 Apr 10 06:40:46 steve-Inspiron-5580 kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0 I note another user has reported similar issues on the same kernel at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1861395/comments/52 --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: steve 3920 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: steve 3920 F...m pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon DistroRelease: Linux Mint 19.3 HibernationDevice: RESUME=none InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-27 (104 days ago) InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" - Release amd64 20191213 MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 5580 Package: linux (not installed) ProcFB: 0 i915drmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-46-generic root=UUID=b0eaa5bb-0276-42d4-938f-ee6ce1627906 ro usb_storage.quirks=0bc2:2320: quiet splash vt.handoff=1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-46.38~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-5.3.0-46-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-5.3.0-46-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.173.17 Tags: tricia Uname: Linux 5.3.0-46-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip input lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 07/02/2019 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2.4.0 dmi.board.name: 0K0DFT dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr2.4.0:bd07/02/2019:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron5580:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0K0DFT:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct10:cvr: dmi.product.family: Inspiron dmi.product.name: Inspiron 5580 dmi.product.sku: 089D dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. 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