Awesome - thank you for your time and for the valuable information. That’s hilarious about the serial port. I’ll try plugging into a switch, reproducing the crash, and SSHing into it. I still haven’t tried the syslogd tip you mentioned either. It’s time for me to start learning more about X. Will be in touch.
Regards On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:57 AM Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > On 28/2/20 11:32 pm, Justin Noor wrote: > > Thanks for offering to help and sorry for the delay - I got dragged into > a > > work emergency. I finally managed to SCP my dmesg to a remote machine. > > Heh, no problems, these things happen. > > > As a refresher I have a 6.6 current machine that crashes when X is > running, > > and almost instantly when Firefox is running - it runs fine without X. > The > > machine becomes totally frozen - I have to perform a forced shutdown to > > exit this state. The issue appears to be graphics related and is > > inconsistent - sometimes it crashes immediately, other times it does not. > > Sometimes it might be the way a particular graphics toolkit "tickles" > the video hardware too. For instance FVWM uses libxcb for drawing > graphics which means you're likely to be just working with 2D primitives. > > Then Firefox with its GTK+ back-end fires off a few RENDER extension > requests to the X server and whoopsie! Down she goes! > > > There are indeed some "unknown product" messages related to my PCI > graphics > > card in my dmesg, but I haven't been able to decipher them yet. Those > > usually mean the device is not supported, but it is, and I'm sure I have > > the correct driver (amdgpu0). Previously I had no issues for months, > which > > is why I suspected hardware failure. Admittedly I've been lucky with > > graphics cards over the years, and don't know much about PCI. > > No issues for months running a previous version of OpenBSD or the same > you're running now? > > One suggestion I made too was to maybe try setting up a serial console > link… turns out the motherboard makers know how to tease: > > > com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > > com0: probed fifo depth: 0 bytes > > That says there is a RS-232 port somewhere… so I had a look at the > handbook: > > https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/SocketAM4/ROG_STRIX_B450-I_GAMING/E14337_ROG_STRIX_B450-I_GAMING_UM_PRINT.pdf > > They didn't wire it up to a pin header, which is annoying. > > On the video front, I did see this: > > initializing kernel modesetting (POLARIS11 0x1002:0x67EF 0x1002:0x0B04 > > 0xE5). > > amdgpu_irq_add_domain: stub > > amdgpu_device_resize_fb_bar: stub > > amdgpu: [powerplay] Failed to retrieve minimum clocks. > > amdgpu0: 1360x768, 32bpp > > wsdisplay0 at amdgpu0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 > > wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 > > wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) > > The "stub" messages make me wonder if we're hitting some > not-yet-implemented features. That "failed to retrieve minimum clocks" > has been seen on Linux as well, and there it was related to PCI prefetch > register programming. > > The machine you've got isn't much different to what I have at work > actually: Rysen 7 1700 (so previous generation), and a RX550 video card > (POLARIS12, maybe slightly newer?)… the machine is fitted with a RS-232 > serial port so I might try a little experiment with a USB stick and see > if I can install OpenBSD 6.6 to USB storage and try to reproduce the crash. > -- > Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) > > I haven't lost my mind... > ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere. >
