Bootfailure after update to kernel 3.14

[mvdheijd]

Hi,

I'm running LMDE tracking Debian testing on a Dell Latitude E6400. After pulling in the kernel update to 3.14, boot fails. This appears to be caused by nouveau. I am not entirely sure whether I should report this here, as it is probably a kernel issue and not directly related to Mint, but I thought it wouldn't hurt. It's not a huge problem because I can boot from the previous kernel. Below you will find the relevant nouveau entries from the dmesg for the failing boot (plus the version line for reference).

Any advice, or should I report this upstream?

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Linux version 3.14-1-amd64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.3 (Debian 4.8.3-4) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.14.9-1 (2014-06-30)

[   13.301001] fb: conflicting fb hw usage nouveaufb vs VGA16 VGA - removing generic driver
[   13.303667] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0  : 0x298580a2
[   13.311888] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: G98 (NV98)
[   13.312588] nouveau  [  DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50
[   13.314399] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[   13.435854] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... appears to be valid
[   13.435855] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] using image from PRAMIN
[   13.435957] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] BIT signature found
[   13.435959] nouveau  [   VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] version 62.98.3c.00.01
[   13.458991] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[   13.459011] nouveau  [     PMC][0000:01:00.0] MSI interrupts enabled
[   13.463055] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: DDR2
[   13.463056] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 256 MiB
[   13.463057] nouveau  [     PFB][0000:01:00.0]    ZCOMP: 960 tags
[   13.470516] nouveau  [    VOLT][0000:01:00.0] GPU voltage: 900000uv
[   13.503923] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] FAN control: PWM
[   13.510256] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] fan management: automatic
[   13.516473] nouveau  [  PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] internal sensor: yes
[   13.522584] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 03: core 169 MHz shader 338 MHz memory 100 MHz
[   13.534438] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 05: core 275 MHz shader 550 MHz memory 250 MHz
[   13.546339] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 07: core 500 MHz shader 1000 MHz memory 400 MHz
[   13.558300] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] 0f: core 580 MHz shader 1450 MHz memory 400 MHz
[   13.570424] nouveau  [     CLK][0000:01:00.0] --: core 275 MHz shader 550 MHz memory 249 MHz
[   13.600797] nouveau  [     DRM] VRAM: 256 MiB
[   13.606620] nouveau  [     DRM] GART: 1048576 MiB
[   13.612316] nouveau  [     DRM] TMDS table version 2.0
[   13.617886] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB version 4.0
[   13.623291] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 00: 01000323 00010034
[   13.628604] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 01: 02011300 00000028
[   13.633752] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 02: 02022386 0f200010
[   13.638780] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 03: 02022332 00020010
[   13.643813] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 04: 040333a6 0f200010
[   13.648830] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB outp 05: 04033312 00020010
[   13.653706] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 00: 00000041
[   13.658432] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 01: 00000100
[   13.662979] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 02: 00005246
[   13.667347] nouveau  [     DRM] DCB conn 03: 0000a346
[   13.683410] nouveau  [     DRM] ACPI backlight interface available, not registering our own
[   13.695549] nouveau  [     DRM] MM: using M2MF for buffer copies
[   13.696021] nouveau E[     PFB][0000:01:00.0] trapped write at 0x01010505c0 on channel 0x0000fee0 [unknown] BAR/PFIFO_WRITE/IN reason: PAGE_NOT_PRESENT
[   13.697015] nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] still angry after 101 spins, halt
[   13.697052] nouveau E[     PFB][0000:01:00.0] trapped write at 0x0101002ce0 on channel 0x0000fee0 [unknown] BAR/PFIFO_WRITE/IN reason: PAGE_NOT_PRESENT
[   13.817920] nouveau  [     DRM] allocated 1440x900 fb: 0x60000, bo ffff8800da486800
[   13.828792] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb1) is primary device
[   15.402834] nouveau E[     DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
[   17.257794] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb1: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[   17.259519] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[   17.261310] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

[PatH57]

Hi,


are you using the latest bios A34?
Seems the kernel didn't compile correcly and can't make any sense of your GPU.
Witch version of the 3.14 did you install?

[mvdheijd]

No, my BIOS is at some old version, but that should not matter, because it has always worked fine.

To be clear, I didn't compile a kernel myself, the update is directly from debian-testing. The package is:

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Package: linux-image-3.14-1-amd64
Versions: 
3.14.9-1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.nl.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages)

[PatH57]

well another kernel does integrate new or updated drivers and may get infos from the bios that the old kernel was able to handle better (why would it now detect nouveau...?)


Wath is the previous kernel? doesn't say in your post.
Also check your grub.cfg, had to use nomodeset when moving from 3.13 to 3.14 on one of my Dell laptops think it was the Inspiron 1425 with i915 onboard graphic and blacklist the driver.

I'm always using the wget and sudo dpkg to get a new kernel (so I can see how it installs and catch an error message during the update of the modules)

Just updated to 3.14.11 yesterday on 3 Dell and working so far, have to try it on the Inspiron as it is the only one with intel onborad graphics (it should work as it is running already 3.14.2)
So jumping from 3.13.x to another 3.13.y should always work, jumping to another 3.zz may induce problems.

[mvdheijd]

My previous (working) kernel is 3.13.10.

Also I just noticed that I forgot to mention a relevant part of my system spec. That it tries to use Nouveau as graphics driver is ok, since my Latitude has a nVidia Quadro card. So the dmesg in my first post is correct when it detects a "[ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: G98 (NV98) [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NV50".

[PatH57]

check out this, they also state the a kernel upgrade will probably break the xserver
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=114722

As I can't replicate the problem I will stop here but you should be ok posting on the debian forum.

[mvdheijd]

Ok, thanks for your effort!