Ubuntu 18.04.05 LTS Desktop hangs with since kernel 4.15.0-151 and systemd 237-3ubuntu10

Solution 1:

Can also confirm, same here - this post made my day to see I am not alone. I was almost sure my mainboard would be fault, as SMART and memtest reported no errors.

As addition to the above behavior very often suspend/resume and even restart was hanging.

As this was a security update (https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5018-1), it seems that speed was more important than stability testing...

I used the instructions here for downgrading the kernel: How to downgrade kernel after bad update (16.04)

(and remember to re-enable after a new fixed kernel is available, it's important due to the security issues)

Solution 2:

Issue is being tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1938013.

Solution 3:

I have precisely the same symptoms. Starting Friday, immediately after doing updates, I had occasional lock-ups that only a full power-off and power-on could recover from, I had my swap partition corrupted and had to reformat it, had to do a rescue on one NVMe root partition as well as two external drives before I reverted my kernel back to 4.15.0-147 and magically.. everything worked flawlessly again. I wasted my weekend trying to understand what was going wrong until I figured out it was the kernel. I also have a BUNCH of crashes from the kernel in /var/crash to show for it too.

miles@unicron:/var/crash$ ls -latr linux*
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  763 Jul 21 13:57 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.32331.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  763 Jul 21 14:33 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.32439.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  988 Jul 21 14:34 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.53592.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 3464 Jul 21 14:52 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.271760.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 3677 Jul 22 03:52 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.258222.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  736 Jul 22 19:17 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.32747.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  742 Jul 22 19:17 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.32859.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  455 Jul 23 03:04 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.13044.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  530 Jul 23 13:06 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.20048.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie  673 Jul 23 13:14 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.30505.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 1893 Jul 23 22:57 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.123785.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 4163 Jul 23 23:28 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.305134.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 1013 Jul 24 06:57 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.48875.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 1209 Jul 24 07:01 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.65884.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 2516 Jul 24 07:02 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.165751.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 2678 Jul 24 07:07 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.178891.crash
-rw-r--r-- 1 kernoops whoopsie 3500 Jul 25 11:32 linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.253271.crash

Sample from linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic.253271.crash:

ProblemType: KernelOops
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
Date: Sun Jul 25 11:32:27 2021
Failure: oops
OopsText:
 general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
 Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c uas usb_storage rfcomm ccm ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter v4l2loopback(OE) snd_hrtimer cmac bnep binfmt_misc nls_iso8859_1 snd_hda_codec_hdmi nvidia_drm(POE) intel_rapl x86_pkg_temp_thermal nvidia_modeset(POE) intel_powerclamp coretemp arc4 kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul snd_hda_codec_realtek ghash_clmulni_intel snd_hda_codec_generic nvidia(POE) pcbc iwlmvm mac80211 snd_hda_intel aesni_intel snd_hda_codec aes_x86_64 crypto_simd glue_helper asus_nb_wmi cryptd asus_wmi snd_hda_core intel_cstate snd_hwdep intel_rapl_perf serio_raw sparse_keymap intel_wmi_thunderbolt iwlwifi snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event cfg80211 uvcvideo btusb btrtl videobuf2_vmalloc btbcm snd_rawmidi videobuf2_memops btintel videobuf2_v4l2 drm_kms_helper
  bluetooth snd_seq xpad videobuf2_core ff_memless ecdh_generic drm videodev snd_seq_device snd_timer media fb_sys_fops snd syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt mei_me idma64 soundcore virt_dma input_leds joydev mei processor_thermal_device intel_lpss_pci int340x_thermal_zone shpchp intel_pch_thermal intel_lpss intel_soc_dts_iosf elan_i2c mac_hid asus_wireless int3400_thermal acpi_pad acpi_thermal_rel sch_fq_codel ppa parport_pc ppdev lp parport ip_tables x_tables autofs4 hid_asus hid_generic usbhid nvme r8169 ahci nvme_core mii libahci wmi i2c_hid hid video pinctrl_sunrisepoint
 CPU: 4 PID: 81 Comm: kswapd0 Tainted: P           OE    4.15.0-151-generic #157-Ubuntu
 Hardware name: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. G752VT/G752VT, BIOS G752VT.213 01/06/2016
 RIP: 0010:find_get_entries+0x68/0x200
 RSP: 0018:ffffb54cc384f9d0 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 0000000000000006
 RDX: 1800000000000000 RSI: 0000000000001000 RDI: ffff9730446816d0
 RBP: ffffb54cc384fa30 R08: 0000000000000800 R09: 0000000000000006
 R10: ffff9730446817f8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffb54cc384faf8
 R13: ffffb54cc384fa78 R14: 000000000000000c R15: ffff9730446817f8
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff973606500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00000a520680c000 CR3: 00000005c260a005 CR4: 00000000003606e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Call Trace:
  pagevec_lookup_entries+0x1e/0x30
  truncate_inode_pages_range+0x127/0x960
  ? xfs_mount_validate_sb+0x440/0x500 [xfs]
  ? __inode_wait_for_writeback+0x7e/0xf0
  ? bit_waitqueue+0x40/0x40
  truncate_inode_pages_final+0x4c/0x60
  evict+0x188/0x1a0
  dispose_list+0x39/0x50
  prune_icache_sb+0x5a/0x80
  super_cache_scan+0x137/0x1b0
  shrink_slab.part.49+0x1e7/0x440
  shrink_node+0x2e1/0x2f0
  kswapd+0x2b1/0x710
  kthread+0x121/0x140
  ? mem_cgroup_shrink_node+0x190/0x190
  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70
  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
 Code: c7 45 a8 00 00 00 00 48 89 75 b0 45 31 ff 4d 85 ff 0f 84 01 01 00 00 49 8b 17 48 85 d2 74 69 48 89 d0 83 e0 03 0f 85 5f 01 00 00 <48> 8b 42 20 48 8d 78 ff a8 01 48 0f 44 fa 8b 47 1c 85 c0 74 d7 
 RIP: find_get_entries+0x68/0x200 RSP: ffffb54cc384f9d0
 ---[ end trace aafa3a2a2c51a63e ]---
 
Package: linux-image-4.15.0-151-generic 4.15.0-151.157
SourcePackage: linux
Tags: kernel-oops
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-151-generic x86_64

Kubuntu has been running VERY solid on this system for years, memtested fine, no SMART errors for drives, etc. I can only narrow this down to the new kernel updates.

For now, the only solution I thought of was to set GRUB to boot the old kernel by default and kept the new kernel available in case I wanted to try to tinker with it some more. For this, I used the solution illustrated here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198003/set-default-kernel-in-grub

Solution 4:

Also have the same problem with 4.15.0-151-generic. Fixed by reverting to previous kernel 4.15.0-147. Note: I have an old? AMD processor AMD Ryzen 7 1700 stepping 1 microcode : 0x8001138. This bug is similar to a previous problem kernel.org bugzilla Bug 206487.

Solution 5:

Courtesy of Stefan Bader and confirmed by myself as the original reporter:-

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-153.160

linux (4.15.0-153.160) bionic; urgency=medium

• bionic/linux: 4.15.0-153.160 -proposed tracker (LP: #1938319)

• 4.15.0-151 is freezing various CPUs (LP: #1938013)

  • mac80211: fix memory corruption in EAPOL handling

-- Stefan Bader Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:26:59 +0200