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Bug#716799: Debian 7.1 on Samsung NP535U3C-A04SE



Control: reassign -1 src:linux 3.2.46-1
Control: retitle -1 GPF shortly after boot on Samsung NP535U3C-A04SE (in __dentry_open)
Control: tag -1 moreinfo

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 23:20 +0200, Patrik Nilsson wrote:
> Package: Linux
> 
> I installed Debian 7.1 on a Samsung NP535U3C-A04SE. Installation asks
> for firmwares and I downloaded them
> (http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/stable/20130616/firmware.tar.gz)
> and put them on a USB-disk for loading. This goes fine.
> 
> Installation doesn't complain, but when restarting I got error messages
> saying there are firmware bugs.

That means the system firmware (BIOS) not loadable firmware.  I'm aware
that this isn't very clear.

> First time Gnome is loaded it says it has started in a fallback mode,
> since some errors occurred. It doesn't say what.

This means that it could enable compositing of the display.  This
usually happens if you have an AMD GPU but did not install
firmware-linux-nonfree.

> I attach: dpkg.log, syslog, Xorg.log

Xorg.log confirms this.

> Here is a syslog of a start which ended up in that I could see the mouse
> pointer, but the desktop was not shown. Instead I saw this log.
> 
> I needed to switch of the computer by pressing five seconds on the power
> switch.

So this is after you installed firmware-linux-nonfree.

How often does this happen?  Can you provide logs for other crashes?

If you add 'nomodeset' to the kernel command line (at the GRUB menu),
does this stop happening?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

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