Clightd service does not stop

[fededp]

Clightd service does not stop

[tduboys]

Hi,
Seems that is a bug on amdgpu driver that causes some calls made by ddcutil are stuck… I'm looking on this side and answered on an already-opened bug report on ddcutil.

Thanks to take times for my issue :) I'm using clight on all my setups for months, it's a cool project !

[tduboys]

I seen that my fresh system had 2 v4l devices detected (video0 and video1) for only one webcam (Logitech C270).
If I force the sensor plugin to use only video0, I dont have the stop issue again.
I also have a 3rd v4l device called media0, and I dont know what it is…

Edit: not all the time…
some times, I dont have CPU-load issue and non-stopping clightd issue, some times, I have both.
During my last shutdown, I got this message on the console and service failed to stop :

uvcvideo: Failed to query (SET_CUR) UVC control 4 on unit 1: -32 (exp. 4).
uvcvideo 1-9.4:1.0: reset_resume error -22

[FedeDP]

Hi! Thanks for opening this issue!
It seems weird that clightd does not respond to sigkill (well it should work even with a normal sigterm/sigstop).
Honestly, i never heard about this issue; both of my laptops have "/dev/video0" and "/dev/video1" but i couldn't notice this issue.

I tried forcing same logical path as

Device does not support neither GREY nor YUYV nor MJPEG pixelformats.: Invalid argument

but again, i had no issue.
Maybe your "/dev/video1" device is somewhat faulty and freezes up clightd?
You can eg read here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/541493/one-physical-device-mounts-two-dev-video-devices-which-will-cause-fswebcam-to
or here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/512759/multiple-dev-video-for-one-physical-device
To find the correct device to use, clightd does some checks on both devices; maybe your faulty driver dies when /dev/video1 is checked...

Note also that Clightd does check that the devices has the VIDEO_CAPTURE cap (and, following this answer on SO, should be missing from second device (the metadata' one).
This is indeed the case on my laptop.

[tduboys]

Hi, Thanks for your answer
I also seen that both vide0 and video1 are for the same webcam, I checked on a laptop and seen the same. Both devices have Video and Metadata Captures features.
At this moment, forcing video0 made Clight working.

The message Device does not support neither GREY nor YUYV nor MJPEG pixelformats.: Invalid argument appears on systemd logs for clightd service, before I'm log in on the session (and launching clight), but on the clight side, I see that the captor /dev/video0 is available and all seems to work.

Another error message I seen on clightd logs is No drm class cards found in /sys/class/drm, but I can see my videocard on /sys/class/drm/card0, but it's a new AMD card, and maybe the amdgpu drivers are not fully compatible on the drm side.

Is there a way to disable some plugins on clightd side ? Just to restrict to the minimal.

Edit: I've a new idea. I seen that clightd uses ddcutil, but if I launch ddcutil using sudo, the command did not respond, and a kill -9 command did not stop the process…
Maybe clightd is blocked on a call to ddcutil ? Seems related to rockowitz/ddcutil#159

[FedeDP]

Hi!

Edit: I've a new idea. I seen that clightd uses ddcutil, but if I launch ddcutil using sudo, the command did not respond, and a kill -9 command did not stop the process…
Maybe clightd is blocked on a call to ddcutil ?

Yep, it seems an issue with ddcutil!
The following lines, from your log, show ddcutil's output:

janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: No drm class cards found in /sys/class/drm
...
janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: (check_displays ) Displays changed!
janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: [63B blob data]
janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: (check_displays ) Current connected displays: card0-DP-2
janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: (dummy_display_change_handler ) changes = Changed_Added
janv. 17 22:35:37 minsk clightd[444]: (dummy_display_change_handler ) Added displays: card0-DP-2

This is the only ddcutil output i see in clightd's output.

May be you can open a bug report on ddcutil? I am pretty sure rockowitz will track this bug ;)

Btw great to hear that clight works fine when forcing video0!
And once more, let me thank you for writing this bug report and for taking the time to test various workarounds before giving up and throwing clight out of the window!

[FedeDP]

It's a pleasure to hear that!

[tduboys]

Hi,
Just to report that the same issue on my setup have a different impact on my system on last clightd 5.3 (on an updated archlinux system)

The precedent issue was that clightd was unkillable. But now, the process is sopping well but when shutting down or restarting my computer did not work with different symptoms : all the system is halted, graphic card is powered down (screen does not receive signal anymore) but the motherboard is not powering off.

I do the same fix that last time : building clightd without DDC support and it solves my issue.
DDC and AMD RDNA2 graphic cards is still having troubles…

Thanks

[FedeDP]

Hi! That is very unfortunate :(

DDC and AMD RDNA2 graphic cards is still having troubles…

It can be an issue while unloading i2c-dev kernel module, maybe?
Can you try to manually load it and unload it?
sudo modprobe i2c-dev
sudo rmmod i2c-dev

If clightd stops fine, the only thing remaining from DDC integration is that kernel module being loaded!