Questions[macbook-pro](ubuntu)

[Note: this is similar to issue #418 in the gnome gitlab but it happens to me constantly and I'm not running Evolution. I filed this there too, but gnome 3.28.2 is no longer supported there.]

I'm not sure how long this has been going on or what triggered it, but I recently noticed that my syslog is being spammed with the same 3 lines repeatedly. For example:

$ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "APP", prod id 41006
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2880x1800"x0.0  337.75  2880 2928 2960 3040  1800 1803 1809 1852 +hsync -vsync (111.1 kHz eP)
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "APP", prod id 41006
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2880x1800"x0.0  337.75  2880 2928 2960 3040  1800 1803 1809 1852 +hsync -vsync (111.1 kHz eP)
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "APP", prod id 41006
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2880x1800"x0.0  337.75  2880 2928 2960 3040  1800 1803 1809 1852 +hsync -vsync (111.1 kHz eP)
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): EDID vendor "APP", prod id 41006
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
Jul 10 04:35:53 496-MBP /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[2094]: (II) RADEON(0): Modeline "2880x1800"x0.0  337.75  2880 2928 2960 3040  1800 1803 1809 1852 +hsync -vsync (111.1 kHz eP)

etc. (at least 8 times per second)

I'm trying to figure out (and fix) what's causing this. I'd appreciate any tips/pointers as to how to diagnose this.

I'm running Ubuntu on an older (2015-ish) MacBook Pro with Gnome 3.28.2 (and all apt-installed sw up-to-date):

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

$ apt-cache policy gdm3
gdm3:
  Installed: 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.4
  Candidate: 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.4
  Version table:
 *** 3.28.3-0ubuntu18.04.4 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.28.0-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
  Version table:
     1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:7.7+19ubuntu7 500
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

$ uname -a
Linux 496-MBP 5.3.0-62-generic #56~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 24 16:17:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ inxi
CPU~Quad core Intel Core i7-4980HQ (-MT-MCP-) speed/max~798/4000 MHz Kernel~5.3.0-62-generic x86_64 Up~51 min Mem~2430.2/15889.5MB HDD~1000.6GB(35.4% used) Procs~337 Client~Shell inxi~2.3.56

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2880 x 1800, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP connected primary 2880x1800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
   2880x1800     59.99*+
   1920x1200     59.95  
   1920x1080     60.00  
   1600x1200     59.95  
   1680x1050     60.00  
   1400x1050     60.00  
   1280x1024     59.95  
   1440x900      59.99  
   1280x960      59.99  
   1280x854      59.95  
   1280x800      59.96  
   1280x720      59.97  
   1152x768      59.95  
   1024x768      59.95  
   800x600       59.96  
   848x480       59.94  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480       59.94  
DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DisplayPort-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

$ lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|Display'
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X] [1002:6821] (rev 83)

Please let me know if there's other information that could help with a diagnosis.

Thanks!

Update 01/05/2019 :
Switching to Intel and removing Nvidia caused the computer to not freeze for more than 3 days, but unfortunately it again froze two times today. I used @jackw11111 advice, and managed to take a picture of the memory usage through the Terminal when it froze the second time.

What I find strange is that not all the RAM was used when it froze.

Update 23/04/2019 :
Upgrading to 18.10 did not solve the issue. The freezing happened again several times in both Firefox and Google Chrome, as well as in Opera. The last time it happened, I was on the Google Maps website. Strangely, the freezing seems to occur even more than before. It became so disturbing that I only use Ubuntu for offline work, and OS X for the rest.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Update 31/03/2019 :
Unfortunately it happened again yesterday and today, even after I disabled hardware acceleration and installed the Nvidia graphic driver. For now, it happened only in Firefox, but that is maybe because I mostly used Firefox. And I cannot open the terminal through the shortcut (Alt+Ctrl+T) during the freezing, even though it otherwise works.

I made a video showing the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZrK1bsnHCo
Yesterday, the freezing in Firefox even happened while I was not watching a video at all, but simply scrolling through the browser search results.

I installed Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on my MacBookPro two weeks ago. From time to time (at least once a day generally), while watching a YouTube video, the entire screen freezes, except the audio which keeps looping the sound being played at the time of the crash (like "shshshshshshshsh" or "stustustu" or "vidvidvidvid" I hope you see what I mean). The only thing I can do is force shut down the computer by pressing and holding down the power button for a few seconds.

I have absolutely no idea where this comes from. It happens both on Firefox and Chrome.

Do you have any idea what it could be, how I could prevent that or if there is at least another way to simply force quit YouTube/ Firefox / Chrome (without shutting down the entire computer by pressing the power button a few seconds) and simply restart the browser even though all shortcuts I tried as well as mouse movements did not respond during the crash?

Thanks for your help !

For Aravind:

$ hwinfo --gfxcard
14: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)         
  [Created at pci.378]
  Unique ID: VCu0.9RMFrOT84MB
  Parent ID: vSkL.jPq0IMUQb1A
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0fd5 "GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x106b "Apple Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x00fc 
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nouveau"
  Driver Modules: "nouveau"
  Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0x90000000-0x9fffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xa0000000-0xa1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x207f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xc1000000-0xc107ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 47 (557954 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000FD5sv0000106Bsd000000FCbc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidiafb"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: nouveau is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #12 (PCI bridge)

31: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.378]
  Unique ID: _Znp.RpDAoKcUWbF
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0166 "3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x106b "Apple Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x00fb
  Revision: 0x09
  Driver: "i915"
  Driver Modules: "i915"
  Memory Range: 0xc1400000-0xc17fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xb0000000-0xbfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x3000-0x303f (rw)
  IRQ: 46 (243 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00000166sv0000106Bsd000000FBbc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: i915 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

Primary display adapter: #14

$ sudo journalctl -r -p err
-- Logs begin at Fri 2019-03-15 00:04:59 CET, end at Fri 2019-03-29 15:09:01 CET
Mär 29 13:19:35 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init fai
Mär 29 13:19:35 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable t
Mär 29 13:18:17 frieder-MacBookPro bluetoothd[885]: Failed to set mode: Blocked 
Mär 29 13:18:17 frieder-MacBookPro spice-vdagent[1650]: Cannot access vdagent vi
Mär 29 13:18:16 frieder-MacBookPro pulseaudio[1502]: [pulseaudio] backend-ofono.
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
Mär 29 13:18:10 frieder-MacBookPro kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: DATA_ERROR 
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I have a Macbook pro running Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME 3. I use my laptop in 2 setups:

1. Closed lid with a monitor
2. Open lid with no monitor

I've been noticing that when I pull my laptop out of my bag, it's very hot and the Apple logo is lit. Here is how I usually suspend my laptop.

Setup 1:

1. I click the battery/audio/wifi icon
2. I press Alt so that the Power icon turns into a Pause icon
3. I hit the Pause icon
4. I watch the Apple logo on the back of my laptop turn off, then turn on again, then turn off.
5. I unplug and put away my laptop.

NOTE: If I do not unplug my laptop from the monitor, the monitor goes black briefly, then I see the login screen!

Setup 2:

1. I click the battery/audio/wifi icon
2. I press Alt so that the Power icon turns into a Pause icon
3. I hit the Pause icon
4. I close the lid
5. I watch the Apple logo on the back of my laptop turn off, then turn on again, then turn off I put away my laptop
6. List item

Why won't my Macbook pro go to sleep? I do not want to shut down every time I go out.

I've got a 2018 MacBook Pro 13" with Touch Bar and would like to install Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic (or Kubuntu) on it.

It boots fine from the USB stick (created per Ubuntu Tutorial "Create bootable USB stick on macOS"). But in Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), neither the keyboard nor the touchpad work ;-(

I've read the post Installing Ubuntu on MacBook Pro on ask ubuntu.

A bit later, I found the Gist "0 Linux-On-MBP-Late-2016.md". According to this, Keyboard and Touchpad just don't work during installation. "Fine"…

I now managed to repartition the mac's disk and install macOS High Sierra and Kubuntu on the system. But now I'm stuck at the Grub prompt :(

Would anyone maybe have a definitive guide? ;)

Just thought of dropping a question since this problem seems to have been around for quite some time.

Just now I have installed the new Ubuntu 18.04 on my Macbook Pro, and I notice the kworker hogging up a lot of CPU:

3411 root      20   0       0      0      0 R  84,4  0,0   6:12.23 kworker/0:0

Here's some other info about my setup:

lsb_release -a:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

uname -a:

Linux MacbookPro 4.15.0-20-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 24 06:16:15 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Now I searched Google for answers on this problem and found plenty, actually. The answer in this thread did the trick for me: Why does kworker cpu usage get so high?

All I had to do was disable gpe06 and the hogging kworker-process was gone. First I looked for the gpe causing the high CPU load:

grep . -r /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/

Then going through the list and finding the gpe that hogs up the resources and disabling it:

cp /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe06 /root/gpe06.backup
echo "disable" > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe06

My problem is that when I boot the machine, the damned kworker is running again. I know I can just disable it each time manually, but was wondering if there's a better solution for this? I tried following the instructions on the Ask Ubuntu thread I linked above, but it seems to be an outdated guide on how to get this running on startup.

So, how do I make this a permanent solution so I don't have to disable the gpe06 each time I start the laptop?