Bug#954729: src:mesa: X won't start after upgrading mesa
On 22.3.2020 20.02, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 22.3.2020 17.38, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
>> Package: src:mesa
>> Version: 20.0.2-1
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>>> * What led up to the situation?
>>
>> Upgraded mesa packages from 19.3.3-1 to 20.0.2-1.
>>
>>> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>>> ineffective)?
>>
>> Tried to boot
>>
>>> * What was the outcome of this action?
>>
>> X wouldn't start (log attached)
>>
>>> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>>
>> X starts.
>>
>
> Your kernel (4.9) is probably too old for the new iris dri driver.
Requires at least 4.16 (while sid has 5.4):
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/283
so you should either upgrade the kernel or force i915 in drirc.
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t
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