(SOLVED) Cinnamon crashes - fallback mode in LM 19

[ovisergiu]

I use Linux Mint 19, x64 Cinnamon edition but I receive an error almost every time I want to shut it down. I have not customized Cinnamon.
If I have to provide any details, please tell which ones.

Thank you!

[Lord Boltar]

Most of the time this is caused by driver issues have you ran the Driver Manager yet to see if there is upgrades

[ovisergiu]

Driver Manager displays nothing and never did. (No proprietary drivers are in use).
Today I did not received that error. I will monitor it.

[ovisergiu]

So, Fallback Mode did not quite disappear but the screen froze and this happens daily. Is Linux Mint 19 incompatible with my PC configuration? I do not want to roll back to Mint 18...

[deepakdeshp]

Try installing kernel kernel 4.8.0-53 which is default for 18.2 version. Or try 4.17.x , the highest series here. It can be installed by ukuu , if it doesnt work you can boot to any kernel in Grub Advanced mode. After installing kernel, you have to reboot.

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uname -r

gives the booted kernel. Good luck

[jpenguin]

What gpu do you have?
What is the output of

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glxinfo | grep OpenGL

Can you run glxgears?

If you have an AMD gfx card, install https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries and add

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amdgpu.dc=1

to your boot parameters

[ovisergiu]

After typing ”uname -r” in a Terminal, I get this: 4.15.0-30-generic
Under „Update Manager” - Linux Kernels, I can only see 4.15 series (from 20 to 30). I do not know what is ukuu...

After typing „glxinfo | grep OpenGL” I get this:

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oks@oks-PC:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD BONAIRE (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-30-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

So what should I do next?
My graphic card is: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X/360] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

[deepakdeshp]

ukuu is Ubuntu kernel update utility

[jpenguin]

Your gpu is old enough the current kernel should be OK, you could try manually installing the kernel I linked above, but nothing stands out to me

[michaud]

I am running Linux Mint 18.3 and had the same issue with the 4.15.0-32 kernel. I updated the Nvidia drivers and that did not make a difference. I rolled out the kernel and things are back to normal.

These are my opengl settings.

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 18.0.5
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

There is no bleeding edge hardware at play.

[michaud]

I decided to take a stab at it one more time and this time it seem to corrupt all of my kernels. None of them would give a desktop and cinnamon failed.

I installed the ppa for cinnamon and upgraded it, still no luck. I then installed xfce and that is working.

Does anyone have any insight on this?

[michaud]

Now even when I remove the 4.15.0-32 kernel cinnamon still fails.

I am going to move this to a new thread.

[ovisergiu]

I had to quit Linux Mint 19 for those crashes and now I installed Linux Mint 19.1 x64 Cinammon and no crash at all, I have the same hardware as before.
Maybe the problems were solved in Min 19.1.

[deepakdeshp]

I had to quit Linux Mint 19 for those crashes and now I installed Linux Mint 19.1 x64 Cinammon and no crash at all, I have the same hardware as before.
Maybe the problems were solved in Min 19.1.

That would be because of the different kernel used in 19.1 .Kernel 4.15.x