Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
found 610851 linux-2.6/2.6.32-30 retitle 610851 radeon: memory corruption after modesetting when RV770 microcode not installed tags 610851 + upstream quit Hi Charles-Henry, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote: My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. Yep, problems with the radeon driver's fallback behavior when microcode is not available are not so unusual. :/ Still, provoking random segfaults is not great. I guess what would be most useful is (1) to try a recent (3.x) kernel from sid or experimental, (2) to build from source, enabling some debugging options from the kernel hacking section in make menuconfig, and then (3) to report this upstream with a patch. I can help with (2) and (3), but I cannot promise to be quick at all. For now, please attach output from /usr/share/bug/linux-image-$(uname -r)/script 31 so we can tell what hardware and drivers you are using, then try a kernel from sid or experimental if you have time (you'll also need the linux-base and initramfs-tools packages from sid or squeeze-backports). Thanks for a pleasant report, and sorry for the delay, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I got you some log and some images. Sadly, all I could get for now are crappy images and empty logs as it seems that the logger does not have the time to start... Well, for the images, I will try to get something better than my phone to take pictures. But this might have to wait till tomorrow. And for the logs, if you have another idea than using rsyslog, I will take it. The link for the logs : https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/kern.log.tar.bz The link for the pictures (~10 Mo) : https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/images.tar Those pictures are taken chronologically but not all from the same start. There should be three different starts. Cheers. On 23/01/11 12:34, Julien Cristau wrote: reassign 610851 linux-2.6 severity 610851 important kthxbye On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote: Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hello, I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and finally an ugly way to fix it. So the symptoms : Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. The suspected culprit : My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole system the problem remained. And also because it could not have been a problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again after a second installation. An ugly fix : My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console output (e.g. with a camera). Cheers, Julien Hello, I did some pictures of a better quality and a little movie. You can find them here : https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/photos Also, I would like to add a little something about the logs. They are not exactly empty. But in case of a crash, the logging daemon does not have the time to start. So there are only logs for when the system can actually start. Cheers, Charles-Henry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk09WVAACgkQJ/8FFS1xjYqmnwD/RDHSEp1Iqh9gSaNJS5gaftUV +sCk4h4XHetR7HzcblgA/0v8J8LwsCi7AiNp2vTk8hLXph6HfNuL1qSV4pr+vskQ =kNY6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hello, I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and finally an ugly way to fix it. So the symptoms : Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. The suspected culprit : My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole system the problem remained. And also because it could not have been a problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again after a second installation. An ugly fix : My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
reassign 610851 linux-2.6 severity 610851 important kthxbye On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote: Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hello, I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and finally an ugly way to fix it. So the symptoms : Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. The suspected culprit : My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole system the problem remained. And also because it could not have been a problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again after a second installation. An ugly fix : My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console output (e.g. with a camera). Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I got you some log and some images. Sadly, all I could get for now are crappy images and empty logs as it seems that the logger does not have the time to start... Well, for the images, I will try to get something better than my phone to take pictures. But this might have to wait till tomorrow. And for the logs, if you have another idea than using rsyslog, I will take it. The link for the logs : https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/kern.log.tar.bz The link for the pictures (~10 Mo) : https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/images.tar Those pictures are taken chronologically but not all from the same start. There should be three different starts. Cheers. On 23/01/11 12:34, Julien Cristau wrote: reassign 610851 linux-2.6 severity 610851 important kthxbye On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote: Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hello, I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and finally an ugly way to fix it. So the symptoms : Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. The suspected culprit : My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole system the problem remained. And also because it could not have been a problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again after a second installation. An ugly fix : My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console output (e.g. with a camera). Cheers, Julien -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAk08gv0ACgkQJ/8FFS1xjYpiqAD+OBa4+lA8u+tYm+SgiK22CwmY uF6P/IkzK+5EiZcjrvQBAIZWdc+uQ0sJ+5g6fBBwFPeHPEePjwqDWSVNH3m7OlWv =/wFO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
