Opening GUFW causes system freeze, and missing text in GUFW window

[Moto121]

In Linux Mint 21.3. Opening GUFW causes a full system freeze that requires a forced reboot to recover. Also the text is missing from the "welcome box" in GUFW. This does not happen when Mint is first installed. But after running software manager and allowing updates it will do this 100% of the time. Something in that initial batch of updates is not playing nicely. Unfortunately it is 30+ items so I don't know where to place the blame. Machine is a Dell E6410. There are no problems running Mint 20.3

[costales]

Hi, thanks for the feedback but I can't reproduce it. Gufw is working in Mint 21.3 in my test.

[Moto121]

I updated two machines using the same stick. Acer is working fine. Dell crashes 100% of time after running updates. Tried purging and reinstalling. Re-downloading mint and reinstall. No joy. It is definitely caused by one of the updates though. Works perfect until they are applied.

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From: Costales @.> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 2:11 PM To: costales/gufw @.> Cc: Moto121 @.>; Author @.> Subject: Re: [costales/gufw] Opening GUFW causes system freeze, and missing text in GUFW window (Issue #71)

Hi, thanks for the feedback but I can't reproduce it. Gufw is working in Mint 21.3 in my test.

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[Moto121]

Any other reports of this? Tried to upgrade my son's laptop to mint 21.3 today. It is a Dell e6420. Same behavior!

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From: Mike Ford @.> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 6:36:27 PM To: costales/gufw @.>; costales/gufw @.> Cc: Author @.> Subject: Re: [costales/gufw] Opening GUFW causes system freeze, and missing text in GUFW window (Issue #71)

It works perfectly on an Acer machine install with the same stick. No joy on my Dell. Tried to purge/uninstall. Reinstall Mint with new download. No luck. All is well before I let Mint run updates.

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From: Costales @.> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2024 2:11:06 PM To: costales/gufw @.> Cc: Moto121 @.>; Author @.> Subject: Re: [costales/gufw] Opening GUFW causes system freeze, and missing text in GUFW window (Issue #71)

Hi, thanks for the feedback but I can't reproduce it. Gufw is working in Mint 21.3 in my test.

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[alexkaiman]

In Linux Mint 21.3. Opening GUFW causes a full system freeze that requires a forced reboot to recover. Also the text is missing from the "welcome box" in GUFW. This does not happen when Mint is first installed. But after running software manager and allowing updates it will do this 100% of the time. Something in that initial batch of updates is not playing nicely. Unfortunately it is 30+ items so I don't know where to place the blame. Machine is a Dell E6410. There are no problems running Mint 20.3

I confirm, same problem on Linux Mint 22. When starting GUFW the system freezes completely.

inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-39-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.2.7 Distro: Linux Mint 22 Wilma
    base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P8H61 v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <superuser required> BIOS: American Megatrends v: 4305
    date: 05/29/2013
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-3570S bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2149 high: 3800 min/max: 1600/3800 cores: 1: 1600
    2: 1596 3: 1600 4: 3800 bogomips: 24737
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G96C [GeForce 9500 GT] driver: nouveau v: kernel
    arch: Tesla bus-ID: 01:00.0 temp: 45.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.4,1.5 drivers: nouveau,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.9-0ubuntu0.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NV96
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK 6 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Device-2: Creative Labs CA0108/CA10300 [Sound Blaster Audigy Series]
    driver: snd_emu10k1 v: kernel bus-ID: 05:00.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-39-generic status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: ASUSTeK P8P67 and other motherboards driver: r8169 v: kernel
    port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: outline-tun0 state: down mac: N/A
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 53.87 GiB (48.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SA400S37120G size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 108.98 GiB used: 53.86 GiB (49.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 6.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 45.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.72 GiB used: 1.38 GiB (17.9%)
  Processes: 254 Uptime: 0m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 2415 Compilers: gcc: 13.2.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.21 inxi: 3.3.34

[vojmal]

I partly confirm this issue on my Linux Mint 21.1 Vera: welcome text is completely missing. But operation system is not freezing. My Mint runs in Virtualbox VM 7.0. Issue still remains after completely removing and new installing "gufw" package via Synaptic manager.

[Moto121]

So I hopped over to Linux Lite to see if the issue happens there as well. Which it does. The following is the error log at crash:

T21:14:05.544023-04:00 mike-Latitude-E6410 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 00000012 [RT_LINEAR_WITH_ZETA]

T21:14:05.544057-04:00 mike-Latitude-E6410 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: 00100000 [] ch 7 [001f4c0000 WebKitWebProces[3357]] subc 3 class 8597 mthd 0d78 data 00000004

These two lines repeat maybe 20 times. Complete system freeze. Must force reboot. I'm guessing this is something to do with the nouveau driver. But unfortunately the Nvidia drivers are not an option for this machine. And certainly there are others using GUFW with even older graphics cards than this. Any insight after seeing the errors?

[Moto121]

This is happening in every distro. After installing the Nvidia 340 driver. The welcome screen shows text, and no crash. So this is definitely due to Nouveau driver. Which is unfortunate. Not sure why this is the only app that crashes due to this driver.