# Freezing when working in Audacity (Fedora 42)

**URL:** <https://community.frame.work/t/freezing-when-working-in-audacity-fedora-42/81556>\
**Category:** Framework Laptop 13\
**Tags:** amd-ai-300\
**Created:** [March 28, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/freezing-when-working-in-audacity-fedora-42/81556 "2026-03-28T17:20:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom4](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/tom4/32/16219_2.png) [@Tom4](https://community.frame.work/u/Tom4)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/freezing-when-working-in-audacity-fedora-42/81556/1 "2026-03-28T17:20:33Z")

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When working on a track in audacity my computer keeps freezing.

The freeze happened on the 6.18.x kernel, so I updated. Now on the 6.19.x kernels and still freezing.

This could potentially be related to [AMD GPU MES Timeouts Causing System Hangs on Framework Laptop 13 (AMD AI 300 Series)](https://community.frame.work/t/amd-gpu-mes-timeouts-causing-system-hangs-on-framework-laptop-13-amd-ai-300-series/71364) ?

The crash follows an identical pattern each time:

1. Suppressed callbacks, then a gfxhub page fault at NULL address:

```auto
gmc_v11_0_process_interrupt: 60 callbacks suppressed
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:153 vmid:0 pasid:0)
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: in page starting at address 0x0000000000000000 from client 10
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: GCVM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00000B32
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: Faulty UTCL2 client ID: CPC (0x5)
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: MORE_FAULTS: 0x0
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: WALKER_ERROR: 0x1
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: PERMISSION_FAULTS: 0x3
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: MAPPING_ERROR: 0x1
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: RW: 0x0

```

1. MES becomes completely unresponsive (repeats every ~3s until system is power-cycled):

```auto
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: MES failed to respond to msg=MISC (WAIT_REG_MEM)
amdgpu 0000:c1:00.0: amdgpu: failed to reg_write_reg_wait

```

For now I’m going to set `noretry=0` and `uni_mes=0`, hopefully that helps. This is the [2nd time I’ve disabled AMD features on my laptop due to instability](https://community.frame.work/t/blank-screen-on-wake-after-latest-critical-update/81178). I’ve been impressed with the responsiveness of the Fedora community, and it seems like AMD is improving reliability, but this chip set isn’t new anymore I would have hoped reliability would be better…

Anyways I filed a bug with AMD [Making sure you're not a bot!](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/work_items/5117) so hopefully there’s an easy fix.

Just posting here in case anyone else runs into this problem.

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Limonciello](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/community.frame.work/mario_limonciello/32/19277_2.png) [@Mario\_Limonciello](https://community.frame.work/u/Mario_Limonciello)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/freezing-when-working-in-audacity-fedora-42/81556/2 "2026-03-29T18:52:22Z")

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[drm/amdgpu: rework how we handle TLB fences · torvalds/linux@e9f58ff · GitHub](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e9f58ff991dd4be13fd7a651bbf64329c090af09) should fix it

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/framework3/original/1X/64c81a89f963ddb07633887baceb642a4b056046.png) [@system](https://community.frame.work/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.frame.work/t/freezing-when-working-in-audacity-fedora-42/81556/3 "2026-09-25T18:52:28Z")

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