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Klmjab

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Registered: 2020-10-30

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Machine freezes if I run a kernel greater than 6.1

My machine an HP Z10 (sep-2012) with the latest firmware published by HP (version: J51 v01.55 date: 06/13/2018) and with an Intel Core i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz has "Daedalus" installed. For some time now I have been able to verify that it freezes if a I run a kernel greater than 6.1 (no ctrl-alt-fx consoles). The freezes could be at anytime, four hours, five days... i don't know when it will come. Starting a 6.1 kernel I can view in dmesg that the first thing loaded is the microcode of the processor, with a newer kernel this microcode is not loaded though. Anybody knows how to solve this situation.

Thanks in advance

With kernel 6.1

root@delora:/var/log# head dmesg
[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2f, date = 2019-02-17
[    0.000000] Linux version 6.1.0-41-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.158-1 (2025-11-09)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.1.0-41-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/delora-root ro quiet
[    0.000000] reserving inaccessible SNB gfx pages
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000001fffffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000020000000-0x00000000201fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000020200000-0x000000003fffffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000401fffff] reserved

With kernel 6.12

root@delora:/var/log# head dmesg.0 
[    0.000000] Linux version 6.12.57+deb12-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.40) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.57-1~bpo12+1 (2025-11-17)
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.12.57+deb12-amd64 root=/dev/mapper/delora-root ro quiet
[    0.000000] reserving inaccessible SNB gfx pages
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009ffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000001fffffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000020000000-0x00000000201fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000020200000-0x000000003fffffff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040000000-0x00000000401fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000040200000-0x00000000c4c33fff] usable

Last edited by Klmjab (Today 09:43:15)

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: Machine freezes if I run a kernel greater than 6.1

Hello:

... 6.1 kernel I can view in dmesg that the first thing loaded is the microcode ...
... newer kernel this microcode is not loaded though.

Kernel 6.17 is Sid/Ceres unstable.

You may need to install the microcode package from the non-free firmware repository
ie: http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres/non-free-firmware amd64

Q: is it in your /etc/apt/sources.list file?
See here: https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … 1.84.38.37

If that does not solve the issue, it may(?) be due to the box being ca. 2012 and having a BIOS issue.

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (Today 09:23:44)