Bug 671698 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.18.20: udev times out because of i915 device, no TTY and no X

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Marc Joliet 2018-11-22 15:46:52 UTC]

After upgrading to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.18.20 my Intel laptop failed to load any form of UI (i.e., no TTY *and* no X).  This happened twice in a row and in both cases I needed to use the sysrq keys to reboot, since pressing the power button didn't work (the logs say that systemd-logind registered the power button press, but apparently didn't try to power off the system).

After booting back up using 4.18.19 I found the following relevant entries in the systemd journal:

  Nov 22 11:40:53 arthur systemd-udevd[305]: seq 1664 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0' is taking a long time
  Nov 22 11:42:53 arthur systemd-udevd[305]: seq 1664 '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0' killed
  Nov 22 11:42:53 arthur systemd-udevd[305]: worker [314] terminated by signal 9 (KILL)
  Nov 22 11:42:53 arthur systemd-udevd[305]: worker [314] failed while handling '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0'

That particular device points to my graphics hardware, which consists of an Intel i915 chipset (hence the lack of any UI, I suppose).

I then tried upgrading to 4.19.3, which also works.  So:

- 4.18.19 works
- 4.18.20 fails
- 4.19.3  works

Note that under 4.19.3 I don't see any entry in /sys/devices that belong to the graphics hardware.

Other than "emerge --info" (pasted below), is there any other information that would be helpful?  Also, I can't help but wonder how much work should be put into this since 4.18.x is EOL.

>> (0) % emerge --info gentoo-sources 
Portage 2.3.51 (python 3.6.5-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.27-r6, 4.19.3-gentoo x86_64)
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                         System Settings
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System uname: Linux-4.19.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_M_350_@_2.27GHz-with-gentoo-2.6
KiB Mem:     5887856 total,    142360 free
KiB Swap:    8388604 total,   8379644 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:30:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: 5028d5bedea6b5ae216a249f84eafea1cee668f8
Head commit of repository audio-overlay: ac54dc99f28029beac5bebdb82a4f2d0f8416618

Head commit of repository proaudio: 8a6900bdba930e719aabe874f1746ae39fb1ee2e

Head commit of repository tlp: c1512b6f94c4780791a0cd7ab50eb3fb4f1003b2

sh dash 0.5.9.1-r3
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p5) 2.30.0
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p12::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r4::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.24.3-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.15::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.9.6::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.13::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.30-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            7.3.0-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r3::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r4::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.13::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.27-r6::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes

audio-overlay
    location: /usr/local/portage/audio-overlay
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-audio/audio-overlay.git
    masters: gentoo

mjoliet
    location: /home/marcec/projects/mjoliet-overlay
    masters: gentoo

proaudio
    location: /usr/local/portage/proaudio
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://gitlab.com/proaudio/proaudio.git
    masters: gentoo

tlp
    location: /usr/local/portage/tlp
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/dywisor/tlp-portage.git
    masters: gentoo

science
    location: /var/lib/layman/science
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

Installed sets: @audio, @desktop-apps, @desktop-base, @desktop-plasma, @devel-audio, @devel-base, @devel-c_cpp, @devel-gentoo, @devel-misc, @latex, @local-arthur, @science, @sys-base, @sys-utils, @work-demonstrator
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /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="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --quiet-build=y --nospinner --jobs 2 --load-average 4 --keep-going"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync multilib-strict news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo https://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-s -j4 -l4"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS=""
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi activities alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdinstall cdr cjk cli crypt cups cxx dbus declarative djvu dri dssi dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif ffmpeg fftw fish-completion flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gmp gnutls iconv idn inotify ipv6 jack jackmidi jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi kwallet ladspa lapack lash latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc lzma mad mng modplug mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg opengl openmp opus osc pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt5 rar readline samba sasl seccomp semantic-desktop sid slang sndfile speex spell ssl startup-notification svg systemd taglib tcpd theora threads tiff timidity truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vaapi vdpau vim-syntax vorbis vpx wayland widgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xmp xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib zsh-completion" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon plan sheets stage words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 mmxext popcnt sse3 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" KERNEL="linux" L10N="en-US en en-GB de" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby23 ruby24" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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                        Package Settings
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sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.19.3::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="-build -experimental -symlink" ABI_X86="(64)"

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2018-12-14 00:28:03 UTC]

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2d7d735651b0451c9600ba2fcdeffc02118693e7

commit 2d7d735651b0451c9600ba2fcdeffc02118693e7
Author:     Mike Pagano <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2018-12-08 20:00:11 +0000
Commit:     Mike Pagano <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2018-12-08 20:00:18 +0000

    sys-kernel/gentoo-sources: Removal of EOL'd 4.18.X series
    
    Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <[e-mail]>
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.51, Repoman-2.3.11