Hashcat stuck at "Initialized device kernels and memory"

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Hashcat stuck at "Initialized device kernels and memory" - ztilB - 11-09-2022

Hi, I'm using hashcat in command prompt as administrator in Windows 10.

When I enter the following line in version 6.2.6:

Code:
hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 9400 -o pass.txt hash.txt ?a?a?a?a --increment

...it runs for a very short while and just stops at initiating self-test. Here's the command prompt:

Code:
hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 9400 -o pass.txt hash.txt ?a?a?a?a --increment

hashcat (v6.2.6) starting

OpenCL API (OpenCL 1.2 ) - Platform #1 [Intel(R) Corporation]

=============================================================

* Device #1: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600, 736/1567 MB (391 MB allocatable), 12MCU

* Device #2: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz, skipped

Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0

Maximum password length supported by kernel: 256

Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts

Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates

Optimizers applied:

* Zero-Byte

* Single-Hash

* Single-Salt

* Brute-Force

* Slow-Hash-SIMD-LOOP

Watchdog: Hardware monitoring interface not found on your system.

Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger disabled.

Host memory required for this attack: 141 MB

Starting self-test. Please be patient...

When pressing a key, the menu

Code:
[s]tatus [p]ause [b]ypass [c]heckpoint [f]inish [q]uit =>

appears but nothing happens no matter what I do.

To counter this I added the

Code:
--self-test-disable

option, but this time it gets stuck at

Code:
Initialized device kernels and memory

! I've also tried the command in version 6.2.5, and the exact same thing happens.

Here's the command prompt for detail:

Code:
hashcat.exe -a 3 -m 9400 -o pass.txt hash.txt ?a?a?a?a --increment --self-test-disable

hashcat (v6.2.5) starting

OpenCL API (OpenCL 1.2 ) - Platform #1 [Intel(R) Corporation]

=============================================================

* Device #1: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600, 736/1567 MB (391 MB allocatable), 12MCU

* Device #2: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz, skipped

Minimum password length supported by kernel: 0

Maximum password length supported by kernel: 256

Hashes: 1 digests; 1 unique digests, 1 unique salts

Bitmaps: 16 bits, 65536 entries, 0x0000ffff mask, 262144 bytes, 5/13 rotates

Optimizers applied:

* Zero-Byte

* Single-Hash

* Single-Salt

* Brute-Force

* Slow-Hash-SIMD-LOOP

Watchdog: Hardware monitoring interface not found on your system.

Watchdog: Temperature abort trigger disabled.

Host memory required for this attack: 141 MB

Initialized device kernels and memory

Any help would be VERY appreciated, thank you!

RE: Hashcat stuck at "Initialized device kernels and memory" - marc1n - 11-09-2022

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RE: Hashcat stuck at "Initialized device kernels and memory" - ztilB - 11-09-2022

Here it is:

Code:
hashcat (v6.2.6) starting in backend information mode

OpenCL Info:

============

OpenCL Platform ID #1

Vendor..: Intel(R) Corporation

Name....: Intel(R) OpenCL

Version.: OpenCL 1.2

Backend Device ID #1

Type...........: GPU

Vendor.ID......: 8

Vendor.........: Intel(R) Corporation

Name...........: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600

Version........: OpenCL 1.2 NEO

Processor(s)...: 12

Clock..........: 650

Memory.Total...: 1567 MB (limited to 391 MB allocatable in one block)

Memory.Free....: 736 MB

Local.Memory...: 64 KB

OpenCL.Version.: OpenCL C 1.2

Driver.Version.: 23.20.16.4936

Backend Device ID #2

Type...........: CPU

Vendor.ID......: 8

Vendor.........: Intel(R) Corporation

Name...........: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz

Version........: OpenCL 1.2 (Build 611)

Processor(s)...: 2

Clock..........: 1100

Memory.Total...: 3919 MB (limited to 489 MB allocatable in one block)

Memory.Free....: 1927 MB

Local.Memory...: 32 KB

OpenCL.Version.: OpenCL C 1.2

Driver.Version.: 7.6.0.611

It works when using CPU only in version 6.2.5, but is there a way to resolve this while also using GPU?

RE: Hashcat stuck at "Initialized device kernels and memory" - slyexe - 11-10-2022

I've seen this quite frequently in the past few months. I believe its due to the low amount of memory allocated for your integrated graphics built into the CPU. Hashcat requires RAM as well as VRAM to processes its attacks and many situations where either the self-test fails or seems to never process is either due to improper OpenCL drivers being installed or that there is never enough VRAM for the attack.

As you mentioned, running the attack strictly on CPU side seems to function just dandy, but as soon as you're enabling the graphics processor included within your CPU hashcat does not seem to work. There should be a few threads here regarding this issue in the previous months which I am to occupied to look for at the moment but I'm pretty sure there is a resolution included in several of these post.