Re: current mainline doesn't boot

[Steve French]

Same thing happened after pulling newly updated mainline kernel
changes a few minutes ago.

Black screen on boot just when you would expect x to be starting.
Hung. Ctl-alt-F1 doesn't do anything.

arch is x86_64.

3.17.1 works.  When I get time I will see if I can figure out more
useful info but this looks like a pretty boring setup:

sfrench@ubuntu:~$ glxinfo | grep -i "vendor"
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
sfrench@ubuntu:~$ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    18.271] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[    18.288] (II) LoadModule: "vmware"
[    18.352] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[    18.355] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[    18.360] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[    18.369] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
[    18.372] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[    18.379] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[    18.479] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[    18.484] (II) LoadModule: "vmmouse"

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is vmware guest
>
> sfrench@ubuntu:~/xfstests$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor    : 0
> vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
> cpu family    : 6
> model        : 70
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4750HQ CPU @ 2.00GHz
>
> (and using 64 bit kernel build) ...
>
> I don't have the Ubuntu config for their mainline kernel test builds
> any more (deleted the kernel since it didn't work) but they post their
> .config diffs at
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/
>
> I could not get to a console so assumed it died in kernel as x was
> coming up.  I will have to reinstall current mainline to see if I can
> hook up a serial console (I had maximum kernel boot verbose in the
> grub.cfg but nothing interesting before the black screen)
>
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 05:44:02PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>>> Anyone know a workaround for the problem booting current mainline?
>>> 3.17 works fine for me, but recent mainline since 3.17 goes to a black
>>> screen near the end of boot as X is about to start.
>>>
>>> I also tried the Ubuntu build of the day (which also is based on
>>> current mainline but with the Ubuntu config just in case it was some
>>> driver issue) which fails the same way.
>>
>> you need to provide more information, here are a few queries which might
>> help:
>>
>> 1. which architecture ?
>> 2. Can you get a serial console to get some dmesg output ?
>> 3. after screen is black, can you ctrl + alt + F1 and get a console ?
>> 4. where's you .config ?
>>
>> --
>> balbi
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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