Bug 1928542 - nouveau prevents system from starting gnome/xorg after boot
Summary: nouveau prevents system from starting gnome/xorg after boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 34
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F34BetaBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-02-14 19:53 UTC by Geoffrey Marr
Modified: 2021-02-22 16:19 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-02-22 16:19:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
output of "lspci -vvnn" (20.94 KB, text/plain)
2021-02-14 19:53 UTC, Geoffrey Marr
no flags Details
output of "journalctl -b-1 -o short-monotonic -no-hostname" (789.27 KB, text/plain)
2021-02-14 19:54 UTC, Geoffrey Marr
no flags Details

Description Geoffrey Marr 2021-02-14 19:53:25 UTC
Created attachment 1756998 [details]
output of "lspci -vvnn"

Description of problem:
After recently installing and attempting to boot Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210210.n.1.iso, the system would hang after "Started GNOME Display Manager" was displayed. After disabling nouveau at grub (modprobe.blacklist=nouveau), the system boots as expected. Also tried Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210212.n.0.iso and several older versions of Fedora Workstation Rawhide (0124) and (0128) and they exhibit the same result. This is on a Lenovo P53 with dual Intel and NVIDIA graphics (see lspci output attached below)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210210.n.1.iso
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210212.n.0.iso

How reproducible:
Every boot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210212.n.0.iso
2. Attempt to get to GNOME

Additional info:
See attached files for log and specific hardware output

Comment 1 Geoffrey Marr 2021-02-14 19:54:20 UTC
Created attachment 1756999 [details]
output of "journalctl -b-1 -o short-monotonic -no-hostname"

Comment 2 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2021-02-14 19:58:52 UTC
Proposed as a Blocker for 34-beta by Fedora user coremodule using the blocker tracking app because:

 Violates the Beta criterion:

"No part of any release-blocking desktop's panel (or equivalent) configuration may crash on startup or be entirely non-functional."[0]

I am choosing this criterion as when the system is stuck trying to get into GNOME, accessing the virtual terminals still allows logging in and using the system, just not graphically.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Beta_Release_Criteria#Desktop_panel

Comment 3 Chris Murphy 2021-02-14 20:33:39 UTC
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117GLM [Quadro T1000 Mobile] [10de:1fb9] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Kernel modules: nouveau

kernel:
5.11.0-0.rc7.149.fc34.x86_64

journal shows problem first happens at:
[   13.872978] kernel: gnome-shell[1136]: segfault at 7f8944b4142a ip 00007f8944b4142a sp 00007ffcba885318 error 7 in nouveau_dri.so[7f89445e4000+dc3000]

Comment 4 Geoffrey Marr 2021-02-15 15:54:35 UTC
Installed Fedora kernel-5.10.16-200.fc33.x86_64 and the problem goes away.

Comment 5 Geoffrey Marr 2021-02-18 15:38:15 UTC
(In reply to Geoffrey Marr from comment #4)
> Installed Fedora kernel-5.10.16-200.fc33.x86_64 and the problem goes away.

Note that this was a kernel downgrade, as I installed an F33 kernel on F34.

Comment 6 Federico Bruni 2021-02-19 12:45:31 UTC
> kernel:
> 5.11.0-0.rc7.149.fc34.x86_64

There's a new kernel on fc34 repository: 5.11.0-156
You might want to upgrade and see if it solves your problem.

Comment 7 Geoffrey Marr 2021-02-22 16:19:25 UTC
(In reply to Federico Bruni from comment #6)
> > kernel:
> > 5.11.0-0.rc7.149.fc34.x86_64
> 
> There's a new kernel on fc34 repository: 5.11.0-156
> You might want to upgrade and see if it solves your problem.

Seems to work! Tested both by installing the 5.11.0-156 kernel on the existing installation and by installing Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-20210222.n.0.iso. No longer hangs on boot, boots to system Wayland GUI.


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