Bug 526522 – gnome-base/gdm with kernel 3.17.1 - crash when ?

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vlad Horko 2014-10-22 20:41:35 UTC]

I held off upgrading the kernel for a while, but I recently took the jump from 3.14.22 to 3.17.1 and found that when gdm started I had a kernel crash.

Unfortunately I cannot grab the stack trace right now and I don't see the crash because I have tried with and without a framebuffer in the config.

Starting X on its own is not a problem. Starting gdm or a gnome session results in a kernel crash. Downgrading the kernel fixed the problem.

The hardware is an HD4000 with the following:
x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.16
x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.1
x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.99.916


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2014-10-23 01:35:39 UTC]

ssh? dmesg? emerge --info? what is "kernel crash" mean? lockup? machine turns off? panic?

[Comment 2 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 07:49:31 UTC]

So many questions... I think that you forgot a more important question, where is the kernel config.

Yes the kernel panics. I guess if the kernel panics it can do many things, like produce a stack trace, and dump some information on the console. Unfortunately because I started removing the framebuffer from the kernel config I was having a little bit of trouble finding out exactly what went wrong. I will try and get more information when it comes to hand.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-23 09:10:00 UTC]

1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
2) Please post relevant information pertaining to what crashed, including output and configuration, and the steps leading up to the crash.

[Comment 4 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 10:45:45 UTC]

Here is the emerge --info. There is nothing exciting here. The problem is when running this version with the 3.17.1 kernel. 

Portage 2.2.14 (python 2.7.8-final-0, unavailable, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.15.9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.15.9-x86_64-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     3746864 total,    213772 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
ld GNU gold (Linux/GNU Binutils 2.24.51.0.3.20140127) 1.11
dev-lang/python:          2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.2
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24.51.0.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17 (virtual/os-headers)
Repositories: 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
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"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news nodoc noinfo noman notitles parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/build/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="bluetooth caps clang cryptsetup dconf dhclient dri3 fontconfig git gold graphite icu ldns lto mmxext mpeg2 multitarget mysql nss opengl openmp pulseaudio resolvconf sqlite sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 systemd threads xvmc"
Unset:  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND

[Comment 5 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 10:48:05 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #3)
> 1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
Done. Nothing exciting there. The problem is running the same system with different kernel.
> 2) Please post relevant information pertaining to what crashed, including
> output and configuration, and the steps leading up to the crash.
The only configuration that changes is the kernel and modules. There is an i915 kernel module and the like. I can run X with the 3.17.1 kernel. There appears to be a kernel panic with the same user space system when using gnome/gdm.

[Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-23 10:53:20 UTC]

(In reply to Vlad Horko from comment #4)
> Here is the emerge --info. There is nothing exciting here. The problem is

That's not the entire thing.

[Comment 7 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 10:57:56 UTC]

Created attachment 387258 [details]
Working 3.15.9 config

[Comment 8 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 10:58:34 UTC]

Created attachment 387260 [details]
Config which has an exception to gdm/gnome

[Comment 9 Vlad Horko 2014-10-23 11:00:49 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #6)
> (In reply to Vlad Horko from comment #4)
> > Here is the emerge --info. There is nothing exciting here. The problem is
> 
> That's not the entire thing.

Can you please tell me what is missing?

[Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-10-23 12:00:59 UTC]

(In reply to Vlad Horko from comment #9)
> (In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #6)
> > (In reply to Vlad Horko from comment #4)
> > > Here is the emerge --info. There is nothing exciting here. The problem is
> > 
> > That's not the entire thing.
> 
> Can you please tell me what is missing?

Most of it. It seems to have been edited quite heavily.