Losing My Mind? OS Restarts on Facebook & Reddit

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I can’t actually believe I’m writing this but, as weird as this sounds, it seems like Facebook and Reddit trigger a full reboot when loading the pages in Cachy Browser

I’ve done a tonne of testing and can reproduce it repeatedly with no other applications running. It doesn’t happen on this forum, Gmail, or Slashdot

It takes a few moments, but once the page loads fully, without any user input, the screen will flash black and come back to the page, then a moment later goes black again and suddenly you’re seeing the BIOS boot screen

Sometimes, if I’m quick, I can close the browser window on the first screen flash and then restart doesn’t happen

Disabling all browser extensions makes no difference

It doesn’t seem like a crash as looking at journalctl -b -1 doesn’t seem to have any entries at the timestamp of the restart (I’ve induced it a couple of dozen times)

Hardware is a GPD Pocket 4, happens both with internal LCD and external HDMI with lid closed

CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (24) @ 5.16 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 880M / 890M [Integrated]
Kernel: Linux 6.13.4-2-cachyos
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.1
WM: KWin (Wayland)

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Adding to this, what it looks like is happening, is that at some point in the page load the browser is sending a reboot signal to the OS, almost like it is triggering sudo reboot now or sudo shutdown -r now

I’m gonna take a look to see if I can figure out how/when those commands are being triggered and by which user

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Does it happen in a Private Window as well? What about temporarily installing another browser and trying the same webpages that trigger this?

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This looks like the universe telling you to delete Facebook and Reddit to me. IMO, you should ask out all the girls you liked from your High School but didn’t get to date out, then delete it after, that’s what I did with Facebook.

Reddit is just 40% AI arguing with each other, easily deleted. If you need a replacement Lemmy.World is a great open source one.

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You’re not wrong my friend… although what am I going to do while my wife plays the new Final Fantasy 7?

Truly though, I have a mystery and now need to solve it

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So, happens in Private Window as well, been trying to avoid installing another browser but might have to do that for proper testing

But! I do have a new clue today!

It seems to happen after Reddit loads and then automatically jumps down the page by several posts instead of staying at the top of the feed

I also noticed this line in journalctl that doesn’t seem to appear when I shutdown/restart manually:

plasmashell[1409]: The cached device pixel ratio value was stale on window update. Please file a QTBUG which explains how to reproduce.

Any idea if this is a red herring or something I should keep poking at?

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That is an AMD bug. This is maybe solved in the .5 kernel update.
Please update your system

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Thanks! Pretty sure I updated right before posting 2 days ago, but updated again now

I’m gonna tentatively call this resolved for now. It did seem to not happen in Firefox and was only happening on Cachy Browser, but after update I’m not reprpoducing it right away

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@Redmage913 So, it appeared to go away when using Firefox, but apparently this is a known AMD bug affecting Cachy Browser which seems be resolved with latest 6.13.5-2 kernel

Thanks for poking your head in :slight_smile:

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Nevermind! Not resolved in Cachy Browser, but hasn’t happened in regular Firefox so guess I’m switching over