Leap 16 with Gnome, Mozilla browser. Running the Internet radio or youtube movie causes that the sound is stuttering. Sometimes the cursor is also jittering while moving the mouse. I see that codecs are installed:
$ zypper se openh264
S | Name | Summary | Type
---+-------------------------+---------------------------------------------+-----------
i | libopenh264-8 | H.264 codec library | package
| libopenh264-8-debuginfo | Debug information for package libopenh264-8 | package
| libopenh264-devel | Development files for openh264 | package
i | mozilla-openh264 | H.264 codec support for Mozilla browsers | package
| noopenh264 | Fake implementation of the OpenH264 library | srcpackage
| noopenh264-debugsource | Debug sources for package noopenh264 | package
| openh264 | H.264 codec library | srcpackage
The problem disappeared. It occurred when listing the audio without any additional devices.
At the beginning of troubleshooting, I restarted my notebook many times, but the problem remained, then, once upon a time, it disappeared without any action on my part. I don’t what fixed the issue. Just in case I paste inxi’s output (I needed to install it):
That looks like some sort of system overload, maybe by background activities clogging the CPU or disk interface. Is it a new install, where some initial disk indexing and the like is to be expected and then system load goes back to normal?
You suggested me to mention about another issues with the system. I migrated from Leap 15.6 to 16.0. During online upgrade I had some troubles, so after that I decided to install a fresh copy of Leap 16.0 leaving my /home directory untouched.
On both systems the laptop was not able to shutdown properly. I mean that sometimes, especially if I close many media like browser with many opened tabs, Wine, PDF Reader etc., the notebook couldn’t shutdown. I see some logging data on the screen, then the screen is black and I hear a cooling fan. I need to force shutdown using the button. Worth to mention that sometimes the notebook can be down properly.
I also noticed that during the start phase, when the system logs many things, there is an error: NVIDIA Persistence Daemon Failed to Start. There is something wrong but I don’t know how to find the root cause.
@Tail the nvidia driver has not rebuilt for the new kernel. This can be seen in the inxi output, it’s N/A. Force the re-install of the nvidia kmp and should rebuild, if secure boot is active, then make sure you accept the MOK key on reboot.
@Tail and not the current kernel version in Leap 16.0, you need to zypper -vvv up and see if it rebuilds… You need to make sure a) your booting to the correct kernel, b) forcing the re-install of the driver when running that kernel and c) rebooting to that kernel…
zypper -vvv up installed some packages, no errors. I see that kernel has been updated. Then I tried to reinstall nvidia drivers:
$ zypper in --force $(zypper se --installed-only nvidia | awk '{print $3}' | grep '^nvidia')
After reboot (with proper kernel) the error regarding daemon still exists.
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
@Tail don’t get fancy with your commands as your likely to miss items and version mismatches. Please show the output from zypper lr as want the nvidia repo number (likely 2).
Then want to use this zypper -vvv up --from 2 --allow-vendor-change
Dec 04 21:36:40 xis kernel: simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] Registered 1 planes with drm panic
Dec 04 21:36:40 xis kernel: [drm] Initialized simpledrm 1.0.0 for simple-framebuffer.0 on minor 0
Dec 04 21:36:40 xis kernel: simple-framebuffer simple-framebuffer.0: [drm] fb0: simpledrmdrmfb frame buffer device
Dec 04 21:36:41 xis kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Found KABYLAKE (device ID 591b) display version 9.00 stepping C0
Dec 04 21:36:41 xis kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin (v1.4)
Dec 04 21:36:42 xis kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1
Dec 04 21:36:42 xis kernel: fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device
Dec 04 21:36:42 xis kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device
Dec 04 21:36:51 xis systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Module drm...
Dec 04 21:36:51 xis systemd[1]: modprobe@drm.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 04 21:36:51 xis systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Module drm.
Dec 04 21:36:56 xis systemd[1]: Started nvidia-powerd service.
Dec 04 21:36:56 xis nvidia-powerd[1265]: nvidia-powerd version:2.0 (build 1)
Dec 04 21:36:56 xis nvidia-powerd[1265]: ERROR! Allocate Root client failed 0x59
Dec 04 21:36:56 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-powerd.service: Deactivated successfully.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: Directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced will not be removed on exit
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: Started (1507)
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 452 has read and write permissions for those files.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: PID file unlocked.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1503]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: PID file closed.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1507]: Shutdown (1507)
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: Directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced will not be removed on exit
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: Started (1536)
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 452 has read and write permissions for those files.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: PID file unlocked.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: PID file closed.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1533]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis nvidia-persistenced[1536]: Shutdown (1536)
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 04 21:36:57 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced will not be removed on exit
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Started (1561)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 452 has read and write permissions for those files.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1557]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: PID file unlocked.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: PID file closed.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1561]: Shutdown (1561)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: Directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced will not be removed on exit
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: Started (1583)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 452 has read and write permissions for those files.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1570]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: PID file unlocked.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: PID file closed.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1583]: Shutdown (1583)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: Verbose syslog connection opened
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: Directory /var/run/nvidia-persistenced will not be removed on exit
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: Started (1604)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 452 has read and write permissions for those files.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1598]: nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: PID file unlocked.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: PID file closed.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis nvidia-persistenced[1604]: Shutdown (1604)
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 04 21:36:58 xis systemd[1]: nvidia-persistenced.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
@Tail Apologies for the delay…
So I would do zypper inr and then force the re-install of the kmp. Your using secure boot, not missing the key enrollment?