On 11/07/2021 18:22, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
On 11/07/2021 20.18, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/07/2021 18:17, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
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>> On 11/07/2021 20.14, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 11/07/2021 16:19, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> On 11/07/2021 10.22, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>> On 10/07/2021 19:09, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/07/2021 10.56, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/07/2021 08:44, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>>>>>>>
Recently I started having Xorg crash while using firefox.
>>>>>>>>
This is f34 in a libvirt kvm, host (also f34) uses internal i915 video.
>>>>>>>>
Kernel is 5.12.14-300.fc34.x86_64 but saw this with earlier 5.12.12/13 kernels.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've not seen any crashes on my VM. Host is F34 and
multiple guests, including F34 guests.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a test, have you tried changing your guest video from QXL
to Virtio?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Worth a try. I am now running with Virtio video. Audio sync is a
bit out...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Interestingly: I tried to change back to QXL for comparo but LXD
could not start,
>>>>>> X repeatedly terminated with
>>>>>> [ 43.747] resizing primary to 3840x2160
>>>>>> [ 43.747] primary is 0x5640e09faa30
>>>>>> [ 43.747] (EE) qxl(0): failed to set mode: Cannot allocate
memory(EE)
>>>>>> I will deal with this later.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is your host running low on memory?
>>>>
>>>> I do not think so. I changed back to QXL and LXDM failed in a loop, at
that point
>>>> I did this on the host:
>>>>
>>>> $ free
>>>> total used free shared buff/cache
available
>>>> Mem: 32734592 3232096 7343812 246400 22158684
28782264
>>>> Swap: 16777212 1064704 15712508
>>>>
>>>> The guest is configured with 8GB memory.
>>>>
>>>> [later] I had a very vague memory that I needed to fiddle with the domain
xml file.
>>>> I restored /etc/libvirt/qemu/e4.xml from backup and compared and sure it
was different.
>>>>
>>>> I used
>>>> $ sudo virsh edit e4
>>>> and set the <video> stanza to say
>>>> <model type='qxl' ram='131072'
vram='131072' vgamem='32768' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
>>>> where it originally said
>>>> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536'
vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
>>>> Now lxdm starts OK.
>>>>
>>>> Audio sync still bad. Video barely keeps up. Probably similar to virtio
mode.
>>>>
>>>> I will run this way until I get an Xorg crash, then switch to virtio to
see if it is better.
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK.... I forgot to ask. This is F34 installed from what Live Image?
>>
>> This system was installed too many years ago to remember and upgraded every
year.
>>
>
> I see. What desktop and display manager?
xfce4 xfwm4
Oh, I can't seem to find xfwm4 display manager available for F34.
What is the outupt of
systemctl status display-manager
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