#11585·tabby

BUG: GPU process crash when running an ai agent

Author: YoshiofthewireCreated Aug 11, 2026Updated Sep 14, 2026
LabelsT: Bug

Describe the problem: Tabby crashes while an agent is running in a terminal. The crash appears to involve Electron’s GPU process and AMDGPU rendering. This has been reproduced with Claude Code, Codex, and Muse

Environment

  • Tabby: 1.0.233-1
  • Electron: 38
  • OS: CachyOS Linux
  • Kernel: 7.1.8-1-cachyos
  • GPU: AMD Radeon 880M/890M
  • Driver: amdgpu

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open Tabby.
  2. Start an agent in a terminal session.
  3. Leave the agent running and provide it tasks.
  4. The Agent tab crashes.

Expected behavior

Tabby remains open while the agent is running.

Relevant log output

On 2026-08-11:

10:49:46 amdgpu: Process electron pid 69358 thread electron:cs0 pid 69368
10:49:49 Tabby: SharedContextState context lost via EXT_robustness.
Reset status = GL_GUILTY_CONTEXT_RESET_KHR
10:49:49 Tabby: Restarting GPU process due to unrecoverable error.
Context was lost.
10:49:49 Tabby: GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=8704
10:51:19 Tabby service exited.

Tabby also reports:

GLib-GObject: instance ... has no handler with id ...

Tabby generated three Crashpad minidumps on 2026-08-07. These can be provided if needed.