Bug 779447

Summary:	On first boot no usabel graphical display; in syslog PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR from nouveau
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Jogchum Reitsma <j.reitsma>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Forgotten User Wum0mkMcd8 <forgotten_Wum0mkMcd8>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_Q_jroExIGN
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 12.2
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Attachments:	Output of dmesg Output of dmesg after setting log_buf_len=2M

Description Jogchum Reitsma 2012-09-09 18:52:16 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0

I upgraded my wife's system from 12.1 to 12.2 final. On boot after a while a totally messed up graphical screen appears. After loggin in on a tty-console and doing a shutdown -r now, the system mostly - but not always - comes up correctly.

the systems messages are flooded with messages like
Sep  8 09:14:00 linux-xao5 kernel: [  185.087003] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/2 Mthd 0x02ac Data 0x00000003 


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Forgotten User Q_jroExIGN 2012-09-13 22:27:01 UTC

Please add "log_buf_len=1M" to boot parameters,
press Crtl-Alt-Backspace-Backspace immediately when the garbled screen occurs (the log buffer is very fast full),
then you should be able to login and please add full output of "dmesg" here.

I want to collect as much information as possible to file a bug report upstream.

Comment 2 Jogchum Reitsma 2012-09-14 10:59:01 UTC

Created attachment 505815 [details]
Output of dmesg

Output of dmesg after setting boot parameter log_buf_len=1M, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Backspace at garbled screen, and logging in.

Comment 3 Forgotten User Q_jroExIGN 2012-09-14 12:03:19 UTC

Thanks. But you were to slow with Crtl-Alt-Backspace-Backspace.
I need a log file similiar to this (up to line 880 or so): http://pastebin.com/RYGxj2XT

The log files I saw the switch from plymouth to X happens at ~ 25 to 40 seconds.

Comment 4 Jogchum Reitsma 2012-09-14 12:41:38 UTC

I'm not sure I can do it faster - it took less than half a second. But I'll give it a try.

I take it the 1M in the bootparam is the amount of memory the buffer uses - would it help to increase that?

Comment 5 Jogchum Reitsma 2012-09-14 13:33:43 UTC

Created attachment 505844 [details]
Output of dmesg after setting log_buf_len=2M

After several tries, I decided to increase log_buf_len to 2M, and now I have a better result I think.

Comment 6 Forgotten User Q_jroExIGN 2012-09-14 22:34:49 UTC

Thanks.

Duplicate of bug 771392.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 771392 ***