Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

From	Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues
Date	2017-06-24 05:30 +0200
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On 06/23/2017 02:44 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
> Since upgrading my old Acer laptop from jessie to stretch this week, I
> have several unresolved issues.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> 1)  Sometimes unresponsive.  In up-to-date jessie, I could have two
> instances of firefox-esr open with multiple tabs and get reasonable
> response.  In stretch, sometimes performance is completely normal, but
> at random intervals, the desktop becomes unresponsive as disk activity
> takes over.  Top shows firefox very active and ps shows a number of
> kworker processes recently started.  But closing one browser and
> reducing open tabs does not seem to matter.  How can I identify the
> offending processes?  No hints appear in log files using the Linux 3.16
> kernel.
>
> 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the
> lightdm log in screen.  Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session
> back after an annoying pause.  This never happened on jessie.

Are you sure, maybe the screen was turned off, maybe even hibernating. 
Me, I tap the power-button, it will start reboot or come out of 
hibernation. I'm pretty sure there are some new shortcut keys to press, 
but I can't remember where I saw them.

> 3) With the new Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 kernel standard with stretch, the
> problems above were worse; response was periodically lagging, and every
> return from screensaver caused this in the syslog:
>
>> Jun 19 14:17:08 spike2 kernel: [ 2268.384149] [drm:drm_atomic_helper_commit_clea
>> nup_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:26:pipe A] flip_done timed out
>> Jun 19 14:17:08 spike2 kernel: [ 2268.484810] ------------[ cut here ]----------
>> --
>> Jun 19 14:17:08 spike2 kernel: [ 2268.484859] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2491 at /build/linux-hZ3RQX/linux-4.9.30/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_irq.c:1254 drm_wait_one_vblank+0x197/0x1a0 [drm]
>> Jun 19 14:17:08 spike2 kernel: [ 2268.484861] vblank wait timed out on crtc 0
> [Call Trace snipped]
>
> ralph@spike2 ~$ zgrep "Call Trace" /var/log/syslog* |wc
>     222    1899   17536
>
> Going back to Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 avoids all that.  Should I file a
> bug?  Against which package?
>
> 3) The sound volume up/down function keys [Fn up/down arrow] no longer
> respond (xfce4).  However the screen brightness keys function normally
> [Fn left/right arrow].  The mute sound function key is also ignored [Fn
> F8].  I can control volume with the mouse using pavucontrol or
> gkrellm-volume.
>
> I find nothing in the docs to enable these keys.  On the net, I found a
> suggestion that only caused the keyboard setting app to run 100% cpu.
>
> https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-control-volume-using-keyboard-shortcut-keys-in-Debian-Xfce
>
> Again, any suggestions are welcome.  Thanks!

In KDE it's a whole new infrastructure and in Gnome too from what I 
understand, the term regression has been used a lot these last two years 
while testing, most problems come from older hardware, on one i965 
system I found the workaround was to remove the Debian 
linux-image-amd64, linux-headers-amd64, firmware-linux* and install 
Ubuntu 16.04-xenial linux-image-generic, linux-headers-generic, that 
made for smooth booting to the desktop and no regression.  Good luck!

Cheers,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Buster - Plasma 5.8.7 - Kernel 4.9.0-3 - EXT4 at sda24
Registered Linux User #380263

Thread

Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-23 23:50 +0200
  Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 00:50 +0200
    Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 01:40 +0200
      Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 03:20 +0200
        Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 03:30 +0200
          Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 09:30 +0200
            Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 17:50 +0200
              Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-25 19:20 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-25 23:20 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-25 23:50 +0200
                light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-26 01:20 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 03:30 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-26 04:30 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-26 14:10 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 20:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-06-26 00:30 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 03:30 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-06-26 09:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 20:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 21:00 +0200
                SOLVED xfce volume keys [was: Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie --  several issues] Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 21:50 +0200
  Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 05:30 +0200
    Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 06:10 +0200
      Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 07:40 +0200

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