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Bug 513500 - x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.912, x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.99.903 - blank screen in gnome-base/gdm-3.12
Summary: x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.912, x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.99.903 - bla...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL: http://lists.x.org/pipermail/intel-gf...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 513530 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-06-16 19:54 UTC by Joseph
Modified: 2014-08-18 04:45 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
emerge --info xorg-server gdm (emerge.info,6.14 KB, text/plain)
2014-06-17 01:26 UTC, gentoo@danielquinn.org
Details
xorg emerge info (emergeinfo-xorg.txt,6.12 KB, text/plain)
2014-06-17 17:51 UTC, drunkenbatman
Details
gdm greeter log (greeter-log.2.txt,1.50 KB, text/plain)
2014-06-17 17:52 UTC, drunkenbatman
Details

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Description Joseph 2014-06-16 19:54:05 UTC
After updating, I rebooted to find a distinct lack of gdm.  The screen would blank but the logon screen never appeared.

Adding the following to package.mask allows gdm to come back up:
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.99.903
=media-libs/mesa-10.2.1
=x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.912


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update your GNOME 3 system
2. Reboot
3. Get frustrated for several days
Actual Results:  
A blank screen of Zen awesomeness but GNOME sub-awesomeness.

Expected Results:  
A logon screen of GNOME awesomeness and Zen sub-awesomeness.

I'm trying to downgrade only mesa on another box with this problem. I'll let you know how it goes.
Comment 1 Joseph 2014-06-16 19:57:02 UTC
The mesa line alone is insuficient.
Comment 2 Joseph 2014-06-16 20:26:40 UTC
Only the xorg line is required
Comment 3 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-16 20:37:06 UTC
Please attach your "emerge --info xorg-server gdm" output. And check for relevant error messages (about gdm, gnome-shell, X, etc.) in journalctl.
Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-16 22:32:25 UTC
I got the exact same problem - which was pretty horrible to pin down. The thing is: The bug showed up for me in the morning without having updated or rebuilt  xorg-server 1.5.99.903 recently, so I guess this was triggered by some other update. 
Also I couldn't find any trace pointing to xorg-server being the problem in the logs (even with debugging turned on)

Masking xorg-server-1.15.99.903 solves the problem though
Comment 5 gentoo@danielquinn.org 2014-06-17 01:26:53 UTC
Created attachment 379098 [details]
emerge --info xorg-server gdm
Comment 6 gentoo@danielquinn.org 2014-06-17 01:28:32 UTC
I can confirm the same issue and the same solution (masking =x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.99.903).  I'd tried reinstalling x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel as well as installing older versions of gdm and that didn't work, then I installed xfce4-meta and when everything worked just fine I was confused -- but at least I could get a browser open and find this bug report, so I could figure out how to fix it.

I don't know if this is an upstream issue, or just a quirk with how the packages were compiled on our systems, but for what it's worth I've attached my emerge --info for gdm and xorg-server.

The machine in question is a Lenovo Thinkpad X1, Intel drivers.
Comment 7 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 09:03:31 UTC
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.1 was built with the following:
> USE="ipv6 kdrive nptl suid udev xorg xvfb -dmx -doc -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -unwind -xnest"

It would be good to know which flags were enabled for xorg-server-1.15.99.903. Also, did gdm produce any log entries?
Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 11:50:19 UTC
*** Bug 513530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 16:25:10 UTC
I believe I am seeing a similar issue when starting Cinnamon via lightdm.  I thought it was just hanging before Cinnamon loads, but the display seems to freeze.  If I "blindly" launch something with alt-f2, then move my mouse around, I can actually see my cursor change as it gets to window borders for resize.  So it's just a rendering issue.

I downgraded x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel from 2.99.912 to 2.99.911-r1 and it resolved my issue.  If this isn't related, my apologies.  But it sounds very similar, maybe there is a common component between my Cinnamon session and your gdm-3.


If it does end up being the same issue... FWIW my Xorg logs and Cinnamon session logs do not show anything abnormal, as far as I can tell.
Comment 10 drunkenbatman 2014-06-17 17:50:35 UTC
I'd seen the same reported as bug 51350. Attaching info of xorg-server and a gdm greeter-log.2. I did find in looking around last night that this has happened in the past, and it may be relevant that in my case it's ivybridge hardware.
Comment 11 drunkenbatman 2014-06-17 17:51:36 UTC
Created attachment 379140 [details]
xorg emerge info
Comment 12 drunkenbatman 2014-06-17 17:52:02 UTC
Created attachment 379142 [details]
gdm greeter log
Comment 13 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 18:33:10 UTC
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #9)
> maybe there is a common component between my Cinnamon session and your gdm-3.

Both Cinnamon and GDM use media-libs/clutter and media-libs/cogl for rendering.
Comment 14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 19:11:05 UTC
Could someone who sees this issue try xf86-video-intel-9999 from git?
Comment 15 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2014-06-17 19:42:12 UTC
(In reply to Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn from comment #14)
> Could someone who sees this issue try xf86-video-intel-9999 from git?

I still see the issue on 9999, and I've also done a git bisect with limited success:

git bisect start
# good: [582adf067c275a18f55bb43945348b84cb7eb3c4] 2.99.911 snapshot
git bisect good 582adf067c275a18f55bb43945348b84cb7eb3c4
# bad: [cb7b27a705b477ae1b369786eea13fb14506d54a] 2.99.912 snapshot
git bisect bad cb7b27a705b477ae1b369786eea13fb14506d54a
# good: [c410f0cd982cad8de440727b0ad7d9268b89a704] sna: Set desired mode after rediscover during VT switch
git bisect good c410f0cd982cad8de440727b0ad7d9268b89a704
# good: [3dac734bb0fb0ae1febfef9a9289cf830a87be1c] test: Only compute the masked pixel value if depth!=32
git bisect good 3dac734bb0fb0ae1febfef9a9289cf830a87be1c
# bad: [9566fc0ccc71bc4fcd6bf83b567a41cc5366f5ee] sna: Curry parameters to sna_damage_all()
git bisect bad 9566fc0ccc71bc4fcd6bf83b567a41cc5366f5ee
# skip: [67b37332bd45dd4cea297107bfdc9df21984fdcd] intel-virtual-output: Add DRI3 xfer path
git bisect skip 67b37332bd45dd4cea297107bfdc9df21984fdcd
# skip: [0fbe8995d51b4643f1cf06c07da8b4b5ac5ae7c3] sna: Relax tiling height restrictions
git bisect skip 0fbe8995d51b4643f1cf06c07da8b4b5ac5ae7c3
# good: [fc1f9b91ae2c761e4b126daecab13e13ae2534d3] sna: Mark all caches for expiration
git bisect good fc1f9b91ae2c761e4b126daecab13e13ae2534d3
# bad: [ff36e1f7546e0ac4d6e831e5cf8d1317792ed7af] uxa: Add Present extension support
git bisect bad ff36e1f7546e0ac4d6e831e5cf8d1317792ed7af
# good: [8a02886a24c8699374a39a9363e72bec0e7bbe30] sna/dri2: Use real async flips
git bisect good 8a02886a24c8699374a39a9363e72bec0e7bbe30
# skip: [d8eb87f84f88ad2df42c6fed1d93df76589a14e3] sna: Add support for DRI3
git bisect skip d8eb87f84f88ad2df42c6fed1d93df76589a14e3
# bad: [dd6db82680b05cde4a47116b7096c054f3837e20] uxa: Add DRI3 and miSyncShm support
git bisect bad dd6db82680b05cde4a47116b7096c054f3837e20
# skip: [9cf6cd9726ed5ba73bb8c38c06f7b5c78706309b] Add rudimentary tests for Present
git bisect skip 9cf6cd9726ed5ba73bb8c38c06f7b5c78706309b
# good: [d6240d197be1e752c0de26fbf84fc8fa8d55383c] intel: Clear structs for valgrind
git bisect good d6240d197be1e752c0de26fbf84fc8fa8d55383c
# good: [6ab6734369fbd902a23109f4c3626df9d529891c] Add rudimentary tests for DRI3
git bisect good 6ab6734369fbd902a23109f4c3626df9d529891c
# bad: [975b9798be77b30cbed485583d0ccb48318708f7] sna: Add support for Present
git bisect bad 975b9798be77b30cbed485583d0ccb48318708f7
# only skipped commits left to test
# possible first bad commit: [975b9798be77b30cbed485583d0ccb48318708f7] sna: Add support for Present
# possible first bad commit: [d8eb87f84f88ad2df42c6fed1d93df76589a14e3] sna: Add support for DRI3
# possible first bad commit: [0fbe8995d51b4643f1cf06c07da8b4b5ac5ae7c3] sna: Relax tiling height restrictions
# possible first bad commit: [67b37332bd45dd4cea297107bfdc9df21984fdcd] intel-virtual-output: Add DRI3 xfer path
# possible first bad commit: [9cf6cd9726ed5ba73bb8c38c06f7b5c78706309b] Add rudimentary tests for Present
Comment 16 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 07:08:54 UTC
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #15)
> # possible first bad commit: [975b9798be77b30cbed485583d0ccb48318708f7] sna:
> Add support for Present
> # possible first bad commit: [d8eb87f84f88ad2df42c6fed1d93df76589a14e3] sna:
> Add support for DRI3
> # possible first bad commit: [0fbe8995d51b4643f1cf06c07da8b4b5ac5ae7c3] sna:
> Relax tiling height restrictions
> # possible first bad commit: [67b37332bd45dd4cea297107bfdc9df21984fdcd]
> intel-virtual-output: Add DRI3 xfer path
> # possible first bad commit: [9cf6cd9726ed5ba73bb8c38c06f7b5c78706309b] Add
> rudimentary tests for Present

Sounds about right with what's been said so far.

I've pushed a -r1 that should disable DRI3. Could you all try it out and let me know how it goes?

Thanks
Comment 17 klaus818 2014-06-18 07:41:54 UTC
I have this Problem, if I do an update from mesa-10.2.0_rc5 to mesa-mesa-10.2.1.

I use xorg-server-1.15.99.903 and xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 and all works fine. I think, the pro bem is mesa.
Comment 18 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 09:00:58 UTC
(In reply to klaus818 from comment #17)
> I have this Problem, if I do an update from mesa-10.2.0_rc5 to
> mesa-mesa-10.2.1.
> 
> I use xorg-server-1.15.99.903 and xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 and all works
> fine. I think, the pro bem is mesa.

I have no problems with:
[ebuild   R    ] media-libs/mesa-10.0.4  USE="classic egl gallium llvm nptl vdpau -bindist -debug -gbm -gles1 -gles2 -llvm-shared-libs -opencl -openvg -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic -r600-llvm-compiler (-selinux) -wayland -xa -xvmc" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 i965 intel (-freedreno) -ilo -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeon -radeonsi -vmware" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ~] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.912  USE="dri sna udev -debug -glamor -uxa -xvmc" 0 kB
[ebuild   R    ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0:0/1.15.0  USE="kdrive nptl suid udev xorg xvfb -dmx -doc -ipv6 -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib -unwind -xnest" 0 kB

Then, the latest intel driver looks to still work for me with stable xorg-server and mesa
Comment 19 klaus818 2014-06-18 10:02:08 UTC
Ok, with the new xf86-video-intel-2.99.912-1 with the no-dri3-patch all works fine for me.
Comment 20 klaus818 2014-06-18 10:37:30 UTC
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #18)
> (In reply to klaus818 from comment #17)
> > I have this Problem, if I do an update from mesa-10.2.0_rc5 to
> > mesa-mesa-10.2.1.
> > 
> > I use xorg-server-1.15.99.903 and xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 and all works
> > fine. I think, the pro bem is mesa.
> 
> I have no problems with:
> [ebuild   R    ] media-libs/mesa-10.0.4  USE="classic egl gallium llvm nptl
> vdpau -bindist -debug -gbm -gles1 -gles2 -llvm-shared-libs -opencl -openvg
> -osmesa -pax_kernel -pic -r600-llvm-compiler (-selinux) -wayland -xa -xvmc"
> ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="i915 i965 intel (-freedreno) -ilo
> -nouveau -r100 -r200 -r300 -r600 -radeon -radeonsi -vmware" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R   ~] x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.912  USE="dri sna udev
> -debug -glamor -uxa -xvmc" 0 kB
> [ebuild   R    ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.15.0:0/1.15.0  USE="kdrive nptl suid
> udev xorg xvfb -dmx -doc -ipv6 -minimal (-selinux) -static-libs -tslib
> -unwind -xnest" 0 kB
> 
> Then, the latest intel driver looks to still work for me with stable
> xorg-server and mesa

Hei Pacho, you are on stable, I use testing. And you don't use mesa-10.2.1.
Comment 21 Albert W. Hopkins 2014-06-18 10:58:20 UTC
-r1 resolves my gdm issue.
Comment 22 Andy Pettinger 2014-06-18 15:51:19 UTC
(In reply to klaus818 from comment #17)
> I have this Problem, if I do an update from mesa-10.2.0_rc5 to
> mesa-mesa-10.2.1.
> 
> I use xorg-server-1.15.99.903 and xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 and all works
> fine. I think, the pro bem is mesa.

Mesa-10.2.1 at the request of bug #512932 "Enable DRI3 by default again"
I got around the problem by disabling again dri3 in mesa ! 
Downgrading to Mesa-10.1.4 didn't help i still need to disable dri3 flag.
Comment 23 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 15:56:59 UTC
If you use a version of mesa with dri3 available and enabled, with a version of xf86-video-intel with dri3 enabled, you hit this bug.  

That's the jist of it, you can blame mesa or xf86-video-intel, but it's just that dri3 is breaking some stuff.  Workaround is xf86-video-intel with dri3 off, or mesa with dri3 off.
Comment 24 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 16:14:49 UTC
I know it's a bit ugly, but since no one is likely to fix this bug in the very near future, might i suggest a block in xf86-video-intel on dri3? !mesa[dri3] or some such?
Comment 25 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 18:04:57 UTC
(In reply to Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) from comment #24)
> I know it's a bit ugly, but since no one is likely to fix this bug in the
> very near future, might i suggest a block in xf86-video-intel on dri3?
> !mesa[dri3] or some such?

xf86-video-intel-2.99.912-r1 disables DRI3 and thus fixes this bug, at least temporarily.

Closing
Comment 26 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev 2014-08-04 19:04:05 UTC
FWIW, I believe this is fixed in mesa-10.2.4. 

mesa-10.2.2[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 = bad
mesa-10.2.2[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912-r1 = good
mesa-10.2.4[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 = good
mesa-10.2.4[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912-r1 = good
Comment 27 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-08-17 10:23:00 UTC
(In reply to Ben Kohler from comment #26)
> mesa-10.2.4[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912 = good
> mesa-10.2.4[dri3] + xf86-video-intel-2.99.912-r1 = good

Duly noted. Though I'm still not quite sure what to do with DRI3 right now, since hardly anything uses it (I'm not even sure mesa actually uses it by default now, the current bug looks like a fumble of DRI2 and 3).

I'll look into it and maybe will turn DRI3 back on in the coming weeks.

Thanks for doing the testing
Comment 28 drunkenbatman 2014-08-18 04:45:27 UTC
> Duly noted. Though I'm still not quite sure what to do with DRI3 right now,
> since hardly anything uses it (I'm not even sure mesa actually uses it by
> default now, the current bug looks like a fumble of DRI2 and 3).
> 
> I'll look into it and maybe will turn DRI3 back on in the coming weeks.
> 
> Thanks for doing the testing

For what it's worth, disabling it in xf86-intel at the time got me back to a working optimus system, but I was still seeing hinkiness until I just added -DRI3 to make.conf in case xorg 1.16 or mesa were fumbling around in the back seat or something and all was well. I don't think they are able to really get it on successfully yet.