The problem is I can't reboot the system to try to do a firmware update,
and  I can't run sudo to try to do an update from the command line. It
looks like the only way to reboot the system is to manually power cycle the
system and hope for the best.

Paolo

On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM George N. White III <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM Paolo Galtieri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Here's the new link
>>
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dirdlbwc6r6wz48uxmp7h/log_no_reboot.txt?rlkey=9fx5qauo8vxjeqvi54kea5wpm&st=z9tczq8y&dl=0
>>
>
> Many repeats of similar blocks.  Key issues are
>
> 1) sendmail: rejecting connections on daemon MTA: load average: 108
> This is normal sendmail behaviour
>
> 2)
>
>    - kernel: rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected expedited stalls on
>    CPUs/tasks: { 1-...D } 150366936 jiffies s: 2813 root: 0x2/.
>    - kernel: rcu: blocking rcu_node structures (internal RCU debug):
>    - kernel: Sending NMI from CPU 6 to CPUs 1:
>    - kernel: NMI backtrace for cpu 1 skipped: idling at
>    intel_idle+0x5e/0xc0
>
>
> and later:
>
>
>    - kernel: CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 43341 Comm: kworker/1:5 Tainted: G W O
>    6.17.9-200.fc42.x86_64 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
>    - kernel: Tainted: [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE
>    - kernel: Hardware name: HP HP ENVY Laptop 17-ch0xxx/88B5, BIOS F.10
>    07/12/2021
>    - kernel: Workqueue: events_power_efficient gc_worker [nf_conntrack]
>    - kernel: RIP: 0010:__rcu_read_lock+0x17/0x30
>
>
> A random check for this model on the LHDB shows "BIOS F.13 11/02/2022", so
> worth trying a BIOS update.
>
> I have a Dell Laptop that hangs  with similar RCU issues when I try to
> disable the default sleep
> behaviour per systemd-sleep.conf(5).  I've tested this on several
> different kernel versions.  The same
> configuration has not caused problems on two desktop systems,
>
> Many people have similar issues with laptops.   The underlying problem can
> be BIOS or network firmware.
>
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> George N. White III
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