Bug Report: Armbian Edge Kernel 6.16.4 + xfsprogs (trixie package) = Failure To Start low-memory-monitor.service

[The Tall Man]

Hardware: 		OrangePI-5-Plus (rk3588), with "32 GB" of RAM
Operating System: 	Debian Trixie (pure, except EFI boot and Armbian edge kernel)
Root File System:	Ext4 (encrypted)
Desktop:		KDE Plasma 6.3.6 (wayland, GDM3), KDE Frameworks version: 6.13.0, QT version: 6.8.2

EFI Source:		https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

 

The boot messages, after a few starts (spaced apart) of the low-memory-monitor.service, say there's a failure to start it.

After booting is complete, here's a screenshot of the output of:

systemctl status low-memory-monitor.service

 

This error didn't show up until I installed a number of packages. I tracked down the offending package from the Trixie repository:

Package:	xfsprogs
Version:	6.13.0-2+b1
Size:		4774 kB
Description:	A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs

 

Once this package was removed, the error vanished, and a repeat of the above Status command reported low-memory-monitor-service as active and okay.

 

I also found that, while the error occurred with the Armbian edge 6.16.4 kernel, it did NOT occur with the Debian 6.16.3 kernel.

 

Kernel With The Error (kernel source: Armbian trixie)
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Package:    linux-image-edge-rockchip64 (Armbian Linux edge kernel image 6.16.4-edge-rockchip64)
Version:    25.8.1
Size:       282 MB


Kernel Without The Error (kernel source: Debian trixie-backports)
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Package:    linux-image-6.16.3+deb13-arm64-unsigned (Linux 6.16 for 64-bit ARMv8 machines)
Version:    6.16.3-1~bpo13+1
Size:       210 MB

 

I also briefly tried regressing the Armbian edge kernel from 25.8.1 (6.16.4) to the previously available version of 25.5.2, which was 6.16.0-rc3 (I think). The error occurred with that kernel as well.

 

An Effect of This Bug (Possibly)

When this error was showing up, I was once using the internet (firefox-esr package version 140.3.1esr-1~deb13u1) for a while, when after closing it, I discovered that my desktop background image had changed on its own. I could not change it back, no matter what I did (in the KDE settings gui). I could change it to something else, but whenever I changed it back, the altered image returned instead of what it should have been. But once I rebooted, the background was back to normal. While this one experience (very much an outlier) may not be conclusive, it is indicative of a possible memory leak.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by The Tall Man