Systemd-udevd giving me problems with nvidia card

[saturnoyo]

Hi,

Recently I installed Mint 19 (xfce) and I noticed that my laptop is overheating.

It seems like systemd-udevd is stuck trying to load/unload my nvidia card (or something like that, I don't understand what's going on).

My card is a nvidia 750 M, I'm using the drivers that Mint 19 installs by default (390). Before this I was using the drivers 346 and Mint 17.2 with no issues.

Udevadm monitor returns something like this:

KERNEL[20540.013318] add /module/nvidia (module)
KERNEL[20540.013916] add /kernel/slab/:0012288 (slab)
KERNEL[20540.014152] add /bus/pci/drivers/nvidia (drivers)
KERNEL[20540.014165] remove /bus/pci/drivers/nvidia (drivers)
KERNEL[20540.014211] remove /kernel/slab/:0012288 (slab)
UDEV [20540.028369] add /kernel/slab/:0012288 (slab)
KERNEL[20540.032206] remove /module/nvidia (module)
UDEV [20540.051588] add /bus/pci/drivers/nvidia (drivers)

It also seems like there is a bug report related to my issue in Ubuntu but there is no solution for now: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1759836

Any ideas?

I'm not using bumblebee although I was planning on installing it. Mint installed these nvidia packages:
nvidia-compute-utils-390 nvidia-driver-390 nvidia-kernel-source-390 nvidia-prime-applet nvidia-utils-390
nvidia-dkms-390 nvidia-kernel-common-390 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings

BTW, my card is working fine. I've been playing on emulators and Steam. If I disable the Nvidia card and run the integrated Intel card the issue persists.

Thanks in advance. Regards

[Hoser Rob]

PLease generate a better system overview, copy/paste this to the terminal and copy/paste the text output here:

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inxi -Fxz

Did you try reverting the kernel as mentioned in that bugzilla? That's a change you can easily revert back.

[saturnoyo]

I didn't try installing an older kernel, if there is no other way I guess I would have to but I just did a clean installation of Mint 19 (after 3 years with Mint 17.2) so I would like to keep it clean. Not that it takes long to install everything again but still...

Is it that easy to install an older kernel? Wouldn't it cause problems with other packages?

This is the output of the command "inxi -Fxz":

System: Host: xxxxx-W65-W670SR Kernel: 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64
bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.31) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-4700MQ (-MT-MCP-)
arch: Haswell rev.3 cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19157
clock speeds: max: 3400 MHz 1: 3229 MHz 2: 3200 MHz 3: 3222 MHz
4: 3331 MHz 5: 3223 MHz 6: 3286 MHz 7: 3192 MHz 8: 3240 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: modesetting,nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1360x768@59.80hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile
version: 4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Def. Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:03.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-24-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
driver: rtl8723ae port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: c000 bus-ID: 04:00.2
IF: enp4s0f2 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 2128.4GB (61.3% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_THNSNH12 size: 128.0GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: External_USB_3.0 size: 2000.4GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 110G used: 26G (25%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.50GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 66.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 262 Uptime: 7:15 Memory: 3924.5/7897.0MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56

Thank you for your help.