Bug#930552: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: X-server regularily fails to start while booting

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2019-06-15 2:04 p.m., Bert Schlumwig wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:19.0.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> X-server fails to start while booting
> 
> In 30% of all reboots,  X-server fails to start. When the time comes to start
> x-server it fails and leaves me with a backtrace at the CLI login. If I login
> as root and try to reboot the machine cleanly, it will get stuck and I have to
> poweroff. My only option is to hit the magic-sysrq keys (ctrl + shift + print +
> B) to force an immediate reboot.
> 
> My hardware is AMD-A10-5750M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics and a AMD-HD8970
> dedicated graphics in a MSI Laptop.
> 
> Below, I added two kerneltraces from two different crashes:
> 
> Kerneltrace 1:
> 
> Jun 15 12:08:56 mymachine kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Jun 15 12:08:56 mymachine kernel: kernel BUG at
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_asic.c:55!

This is a kernel issue, not a Xorg driver one.


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