Bugzilla – Bug 688714
openSUSE 11.4 often crashing during boot (i915 driver, probably) (nomodeset works)
Last modified: 2012-08-02 15:54:35 UTC
On Samsung N-310 netbook, 11.4 often (but not always) crashes when booting. This looks similar to what I reported with m6 in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669556 I suspect i915 because: - with m6 it always happened just as that driver was loaded and at the point in the boot where the console text size is about to change as a result of mode setting - it does not happen if I pass the kernel parameter nomodeset. # uname -a Linux dinah.disruptive.org.uk 2.6.37.1-1.2-default #1 SMP 2011-02-21 10:34:10 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # hwinfo --gfxcard 09: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: _Znp.m6RtaS4MHK5 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel 945 GME" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x27ae "945 GME" SubVendor: pci 0x144d "Samsung Electronics Co Ltd" SubDevice: pci 0xc052 Revision: 0x03 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf007ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x1800-0x1807 (rw) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xf0300000-0xf033ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (9671 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027AEsv0000144Dsd0000C052bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 10: PCI 02.1: 0380 Display controller [Created at pci.318] Unique ID: ruGf.eqIm9AJgpU7 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.1 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x27a6 "Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x144d "Samsung Electronics Co Ltd" SubDevice: pci 0xc052 Revision: 0x03 Memory Range: 0xf0080000-0xf00fffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d000027A6sv0000144Dsd0000C052bc03sc80i00" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #9
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I can confirm that same crash on one of my systems back to 11.3, booting the default kernel deadlocks right away, booting -desktop worked but the system would randomly freeze or crash later. with the desktop kernel i always got these at boot time: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 i915 0000:00:02.0: setting latency timer to 64 [drm] set up 7M of stolen space [drm:i915_gem_init_ringbuffer] *ERROR* Ring head not reset to zero ctl ffffffff head ffffffff tail ffffffff start ffffffff [drm:i915_gem_init_ringbuffer] *ERROR* Ring head forced to zero ctl ffffffff head ffffffff tail ffffffff start ffffffff [drm:i915_gem_init_ringbuffer] *ERROR* Ring initialization failed ctl ffffffff head ffffffff tail ffffffff start ffffffff [drm:i915_driver_load] *ERROR* failed to init modeset i915 0000:00:02.0: PCI INT A disabled i915: probe of 0000:00:02.0 failed with error -5 10: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_8086_2772 Unique ID: _Znp.jVvabPUZnPB SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel 945G" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2772 "945G" SubVendor: pci 0x105b "Foxconn International, Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x0d4d Revision: 0x02 Memory Range: 0xffe80000-0xffefffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xec07 (rw) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xffe40000-0xffe7ffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (11004 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002772sv0000105Bsd00000D4Dbc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: intel 3D Support: yes Extensions: dri Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown (I could attach some of the seemingly random oopses if you whish)
*** Bug 676330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
No idea why the older bug is a duplicate of the newer bug, but anyway: Also here the information: No, it does not help to boot with "vga=0" - same problems with this option.
Could it be, that this bug is the same like this: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=686451 ?
Looks like it, yes.
Same problem. Nomodeset appears to prevent the problem, as does nosmp, which appears to be why the failsafe option works. I'm working on a dual process, hyperthreaded Atom 330 1.66 GHz processor with I915.
(In reply to comment #13) > Same problem. Nomodeset appears to prevent the problem, as does nosmp, which > appears to be why the failsafe option works. I'm working on a dual process, > hyperthreaded Atom 330 1.66 GHz processor with I915. only a hint:. to work around you can use the desktop kernel for the moment untill they fix the problem. See workaround in Bug 686451.
i confirm the bug with 11.4 on a hp laptop hp compaq 6710b with mentioned chipset
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