Re: gnome gdm freeze on first boot
On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 13:49 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 18:34 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 10:47 -0500, Sureyya Sahin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently installed Debian Stretch, Gnome, on a laptop. I am
> > > having
> > > this problem that the gdm login screen is freezing on first
> > > boot. I
> > > can't move the mouse and only touchscreen works. If I reboot
> > > everything works fine.
> > >
> > > I guess this may be a bug related to Gnome. Is there any
> > > workaround
> > > for this problem?
> > >
> > > Best Regards
> >
> > Very interesting!
> >
> > I did some digging and it seems to be either a BIOS problem,
> > solved by
> > upgrading your BIOS:
> > http://askubuntu.com/questions/409672/only-touchscreen-on-boot
> >
> > or a problem with too many digitizers:
> > http://askubuntu.com/questions/527793/clickpad-not-working-on-de
> > ll
> > -inspiron-13-7000-running-ubuntu-14-04
> >
> > This was worked around by blacklisting i2c-hid, but the comments
> > there
> > also mention that it was fixed in later kernels, so you should
> > probably
> > have that kernel? (Comments was from late '14)
> >
> > So if you're already running the latest BIOS and kernel, it
> > might
> > be a
> > regression or a similar but different bug.
> >
> > Getting the necessary logs from dmesg would probably help to
> > track
> > it
> > down. Preferably both from cold boot when it fails, and when it
> > works.
> >
>
> Thanks for the reply, I find it very informative.
>
> I wanted to make sure about the BIOS I am using, it seems to be
> F.28, which is the latest that HP is offering I believe. The
> kernel
> version that I use is 4.3.0-1-amd64, which should be the latest
> available in Debian Testing. It must be 4.3.3-5, I believe.
>
> I am actually getting a message relevant to i2c during the bootup,
> which I found from dmesg below.
>
> $ dmesg | grep i2c
>
> [ 10.923432] input: ELAN0732:00 04F3:0358 as
> /devices/platform/80860F41:01/i2c-1/i2c-
> ELAN0732:00/0018:04F3:0358.0002/input/input8
> [ 10.965980] i2c_hid i2c-ITE33D1:00: error in
> i2c_hid_init_report
> size:19 / ret_size:18
>
> the message numbered [10.95980] is what is also shown during the
> boot. Do I need to blacklist i2c_hid?
>
> Best Regards
I wanted to inform that I blacklisted i2c_hid, issued an initramfs
update, and I ended up not being able to boot. I am not sure what
else can be done.
For the time being, I guess I will live with this bug and hope it
will be solved soon.
Just for your information, I tried Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 and I didn't
have this issue at all. Fedora 23 and Debian Stretch currently both
have this problem.
Best Regards
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