Bug#992612: linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64: Macbook3,1 fails to boot without nomodeset with nouveau
Hi Salvatore,
I used firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso. And yes, I did not manually
install firmware-misc-nonfree since this initially failed, and I still
got a black screen which did not ever resolve or respond to VT
switching unless I used nomodeset and deleted quiet. (With quiet
removed, it doesn't black out, but it does stop ever responding after
it prints the "switching from EFI VGA" line.)
I'll reboot in a bit and wait longer and see what happens...
grep -C3 nouveau on syslog for, I believe, one of the failed boots says:
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.209185] TSC found unstable after
boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'.
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.209187] sched_clock: Marking
unstable (2208942206, 241638)<-(2215089173, -5905242)
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.221262] clocksource: Switched to
clocksource hpet
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305362] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
enabling device (0002 -> 0003)
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305517] checking generic
(c0030000 710000) vs hw (d2000000 1000000)
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305519] checking generic
(c0030000 710000) vs hw (c0000000 10000000)
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305521] fb0: switching to
nouveaufb from EFI VGA
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305686] Console: switching to
colour dummy device 80x25
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305783] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
vgaarb: deactivate vga console
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.305843] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
NVIDIA G84 (084700a2)
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306955] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0001
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306966] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
bios: unable to locate usable image
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306975] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
bios ctor failed, -22
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.306984] nouveau: probe of
0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.324639] random: fast init done
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.385518] ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST
DVDRW GSA-S10N, AP09, max UDMA/33
Aug 21 02:28:06 struth kernel: [ 2.457249] usb 4-1: new high-speed
USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 4:03 AM Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 02:45:26AM -0400, Rich Ercolani wrote:
> > Package: src:linux
> > Version: 5.10.46-4
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: rincebrain@gmail.com
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > (I have no idea how many people might run into this, but...)
> >
> > I just had occasion to set up bullseye on an old Macbook Pro. After
> > convincing it to boot the installer
> > in the first place (which was "exciting"), the installer worked
> > fine...
> >
> > ...then on first boot, I selected the top GRUB option, it booted,
> > and very shortly the display blanked and the system stopped
> > responding to any input that I could see.
> >
> > I left it for a minute or two to see if it would come back, but no,
> > nothing visibly occurred. So I rebooted.
> >
> > Drop the quiet from the kernel parameters, it goes up to something
> > mentioning nouveau and switching from EFI VGA to modesetting, and
> > then...stops, entirely, no response to VT switching or any other
> > commands, for at least the few minutes I waited. (I'll reboot and
> > take a photo shortly.)
> >
> > So I try nomodeset, and we get all the way to X happily (in much
> > less time than I let it sit to see if it would come back, so I don't
> > think it would have come back...)
> >
> > Slightly inconvenient. Fortunate that I didn't try the graphical
> > installer, I suppose.
> >
> > I'll try fiddling with kdump and non-journald logging so I can get a
> > better idea what might be happening when it stops outputting...
>
> #991941 and https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch06s04#completing-installed-system
> Do you have needed firmware installed, which installer image did you
> use?
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
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