Description of problem: On this Optimus-board laptop, a Zareason Alto X440, Fedora 23 Workstation usually freezes before a user can log in unless "nomodeset" is added to the kernel line. ["nomodeset" is not a good solution here because Fedora 23 does not work well on this laptop *with* nomodeset either. It runs hot, and does not go to sleep when lid closes.] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 23, Workstation and Server spins How reproducible: Nearly always, but the freeze does not always occur at the same point and does not always freeze in the same way Steps to Reproduce: 1.Turn on power 2.Let grub boot 3.Sometimes, instead of teardrop starting to appear, messages scroll by very fast, seemingly endlessly. See note 1 below. 4.Sometimes, teardrop starts to appear. 5.Sometimes, teardrop gets stuck. 6.If teardrop does not get stuck, GDM login page appears. 7.Choose user and provide password (or not, if user doesn't need it). 8.Screen goes blank. Mouse pointer appears in center, and freezes. Note 1 - messages go by endlessly. Often these are nouveau E[ PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK06 ] repeated perhaps thousands of times. Sometimes they are interspersed with dracut-initqueue[...]: udevadm: relocation error: /lib64/libz.so.1: symbol __stack_chk_fail, version GLIBC_2.4 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. but the dracut messages are different from boot to boot: different lib.so's and different GLIBC_ versions. By and by, the nouveau messages end, and the dracut messages repeat. I can pause the messages with C-A-D, whereupon once I saw a "kernel panic, not syncing" message and sometimes the caps-lock light blinks. Subsequently if I boot with nomodeset journalctl --list-boots does not show the failed boot, so I do not know how to capture the messages. Note 2 - Ubuntu 14.04 worked well on this laptop. But Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04 had the problems I related above with Fedora 23.
I don't suppose you can manage to get the full nouveau messages from a kernel log? I have a suspicion about the bug you're seeing, but need more info to properly diagnose.
Created attachment 1092026 [details] dmidecode
Created attachment 1092028 [details] lspci
Created attachment 1092029 [details] journalctl
Created attachment 1092030 [details] dmesg
When the boot fails, there's no evidence of it from "journalctl --list-boots" after subsequently rebooting with nomodeset. I have posted logs from a successful boot using nomodeset, just in case there might be a clue. Also, I have attached output from dmidecode and lspci, to be more specific about the hardware.
Created attachment 1092038 [details] Successful live-image boot with kms, for contrast The "live" image boots OK from USB, with KMS. Here is a journalctl readout from a "live" session.
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