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Bug 498860 - kernel 3.13.0 - platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 -/ /- platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Summary: kernel 3.13.0 - platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2...
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
URL: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kern...
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Reported: 2014-01-21 23:14 UTC by tman
Modified: 2014-01-24 12:47 UTC (History)
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Description tman 2014-01-21 23:14:09 UTC 
it seems to be there is some problem with microcode with the kernel : sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.13.0-r1

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd-fsck[2146]: /dev/sdb5: clean, 189318/35454976 files, 49350678/141790208 blocks
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT] (battery present)
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.2: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.2: irq 47 for MSI/MSI-X
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.2 eth0: RTL8411 at 0xffffc90008574000, 00:90:f5:d9:a4:76, XID 08800800 IRQ
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: r8169 0000:04:00.2 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000f040-0x000000000000f05f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PC
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input22
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the nati
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU0 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd-udevd[2203]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp3s0
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd-sysctl[2249]: Overwriting earlier assignment of kernel/sysrq in file '/usr/lib64/sysctl.d/6
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2236]: checking bus 1, device 2: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1"
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2247]: checking bus 4, device 3: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.6"
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2243]: checking bus 1, device 3: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2"
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2243]: bus: 1, device: 3 was not an MTP device
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2236]: bus: 1, device: 2 was not an MTP device
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX mtp-probe[2247]: bus: 4, device: 3 was not an MTP device
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU1 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd[1]: Starting Sound Card.
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU2 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU3 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU4 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU5 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU6 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: CPU7 sig=0x306a9, pf=0x10, revision=0x15
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: platform microcode: Falling back to user helper
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: nvidia: Unknown symbol acpi_os_wait_events_complete (err 0)
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd-udevd[2200]: renamed network interface eth0 to enp4s0f2
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd[1]: Reached target Sound Card.
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd-sysctl[2288]: Overwriting earlier assignment of kernel/sysrq in file '/usr/lib64/sysctl.d/6
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX kernel: Adding 25598972k swap on /dev/sdb7.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:25598972k 
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd[1]: Activated swap /dev/sdb7.
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd[1]: Starting Swap.
Jan 22 01:04:50 TuX systemd[1]: Reached target Swap.



Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.13.0-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.13.0-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3740QM_CPU_@_2.70GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    24695524 total,  23700680 free
KiB Swap:   25598972 total,  25598972 free
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:00:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45-r1
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/python:          2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.1-r3
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.12 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo bitcoin lokal
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/mnt/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=""
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
Comment 1 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2014-01-22 15:01:44 UTC 
Any BIOS updates available for your system?
Comment 2 tman 2014-01-22 18:47:09 UTC 
seriuosly i have updated my bios in 05.2013. the pc is almost 1 year old. all kernel until now does not complains.

so it cant not be this is the problem.
Comment 3 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2014-01-23 13:37:22 UTC 
(In reply to tman from comment #2)
> seriuosly i have updated my bios in 05.2013. the pc is almost 1 year old.
> all kernel until now does not complains.
> 
> so it cant not be this is the problem.

Possibly, but can you answer the question anyways?
Comment 4 tman 2014-01-23 16:31:59 UTC 
you are right. i have checked if there is any BIOS update. 

NO there is not. its a bug of kernel or sth else?
Comment 5 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2014-01-23 18:04:28 UTC 
Is there something not functioning?  The commit that changed this added some extra warning messages, but it retries with different firmware revision when the latest firmware doesn't exist.

Unless you are having a specific hardware failure, this is a dev warning message.
Comment 6 tman 2014-01-23 19:32:17 UTC 
my Nvidia card i guess
Comment 7 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2014-01-23 20:09:20 UTC 
(In reply to tman from comment #6)
> my Nvidia card i guess

What are you guessing?  Is it not functioning?

You are using a closed source proprietary driver for that card.
Comment 8 tman 2014-01-24 00:29:47 UTC 
yes i am using nvidia-drivers. and its not working. i am not sure its the culprit for this error.
Comment 9 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev 2014-01-24 12:47:21 UTC 
We don't support closed source proprietary drivers.

Please take this to the upstream vendor.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/support.html