Segmentation fault on Mesa and AMDGPU

[Jheguy2]

I am an Arch Linux user and attempted to run hashcat on my R9 290. However, on both the AMDGPU and Mesa drivers I am given this message:

Code:

hashcat (v3.00) starting in benchmark-mode...

OpenCL Platform #1: Mesa
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- Device #1: AMD HAWAII (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0), 256/1024 MB allocatable, 40MCU

Hashtype: MD4

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I attempted to install the catalyst drivers this morning to no avail. As well, I have installed the opencl-mesa, opencl-headers, and ocl-icd packages in order to enable opencl support. I was under the impression that the Mesa drivers were working, is there something I'm missing?

[atom]

Yes, hashcat fully supports them. But they are very unstable and therefore they often crash.

To verify it's not hashcat, compile hashcat from sources with DEBUG=1 make and then run the same command from gdb. You will find that it crashes somewhere in the Mesa libraries.

For your Hawaii GPU, which is propably a 290 or 290x, you need to stick to AMD drivers 15.12.

[Jheguy2]

Yes, hashcat fully supports them. But they are very unstable and therefore they often crash.

To verify it's not hashcat, compile hashcat from sources with DEBUG=1 make and then run the same command from gdb. You will find that it crashes somewhere in the Mesa libraries.

For your Hawaii GPU, which is propably a 290 or 290x, you need to stick to AMD drivers 15.12.

I see, well gdb gives me this so I guess it is just the mesa drivers 

Code:

- Device #1: AMD HAWAII (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0), 256/1024 MB allocatable, 40MCU

Hashmode: 900
- Device #1: build_opts '-I /root/hashcat/OpenCL -D VENDOR_ID=2147483648 -D CUDA_ARCH=0 -D VECT_SIZE=4 -D DEVICE_TYPE=4 -D DGST_R0=0 -D DGST_R1=3 -D DGST_R2=2 -D DGST_R3=1 -D DGST_ELEM=4 -D KERN_TYPE=900 -D _unroll -cl-std=CL1.1'

- Device #1: Kernel /root/hashcat/kernels/m00900_a3.6cbd0b42.kernel (83722 bytes)
- Device #1: Kernel /root/hashcat/kernels/markov_le.6cbd0b42.kernel (19444 bytes)
Hashtype: MD4

[New Thread 0x7fffbaf84700 (LWP 13147)]

Thread 3 "hashcat" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fffbaf84700 (LWP 13147)]
0x00007fffd0efc8c8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gallium-pipe/pipe_radeonsi.so

I do own a r9 290 though and did attempt to install the Catalyst drivers. I was under the impression that they had been deprecated by most distros, is it still feasible to have them on a modern system?

[atom]

Yes, that's true. You have either switch to windows, buy a new gpu with amdgpu-pro support or stick to an older distribution. Thanks AMD