Xorg freeze

[ar]

After the upgrade to 13.04 it worked fine. But after some restarts unity is not shown. Logon works perfect, but changing to unity workplace give a white flash and a dark screen.

I dit use the recovery boot options, reinstalled ati en radeon and it worked again. On the next reboot again a black sreen.

Installed a vesa driver in xorg.conf>
Section "Device"
 Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Configured Monitor"
 HorizSync 30.0-62.0
 VertRefresh 50.0-70.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 Monitor "Configured Monitor"
 Device "Configured Video Device"
 DefaultDepth 24
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth 24
        Modes "1366x768" "1024x768" "800x600"
       EndSubsection
EndSection

No luck. Problems remains. So no flrx, no radeon, no vesa drivers that work for this mobilty 4250 chipset.

Systeem works in recovery mode, chossing resume, but gives a wrong screensize and distored fonts.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.1:

ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,mousepoll,regex,move,wall,animation,gnomecompat,snap,grid,place,workarounds,imgpng,vpswitch,fade,session,scale,expo,unitymtgrabhandles,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Thu May 2 19:38:57 2013
DistUpgraded: 2013-04-29 13:36:24,164 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: raring
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GpuHangFrequency: Continuously
GpuHangReproducibility: Yes, I can easily reproduce it
GpuHangStarted: Within the last few days
GraphicsCard:
 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250] [1002:9712] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21b8]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-02-10 (811 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: LENOVO 030247G
MarkForUpload: True
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-19-generic root=UUID=2d744989-765f-4da6-baed-3ccd4299bb1b ro recovery nomodeset
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-29 (3 days ago)
XorgLogOld:

dmi.bios.date: 01/07/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 82ET63WW (2.04 )
dmi.board.name: 030247G
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr82ET63WW(2.04):bd01/07/2011:svnLENOVO:pn030247G:pvrThinkPadEdge:rvnLENOVO:rn030247G:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 030247G
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad Edge
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.04.18.1~13.04-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.43-0ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.1.1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.1.1-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2b2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.6-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.7-0ubuntu1
xserver.bootTime: Thu May 2 19:37:41 2013
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:
 open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
 Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
 Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
 Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
 Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.version: 2:1.13.3-0ubuntu6

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

Solution: Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Problem cause: Upgrading from older Ubuntu versions leaves the fglrx driver installed in xorg.conf.
In ubuntu 13.04 this gives problems. Do not know why and how.

Installing the vesa driver is not a solution.

Tip for the developers: Remove xorg.conf during installation if fglrx fails to load.

Bug can be closed.

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

This bug happened again without a xorg.conf file.

And on a second thinkpad with an intel driver it happened as well. No xorg.file present.

On both machines starting is sometimes fine and sometimes hangs.

And a third machine with the closed Nvidea driver I see no problems.

So, it is related to open source drivers one way or another and is not driver specific.

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

It looks like this. After:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
the machine will reboot fine the next time.

But, the second reboot gives a black screen.
Remove the lock and reboot again. The screen comes up fine.

Does this make sense?

[ar (arjenmeijernl)]

Lock has nothing to do with it.

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64072

[penalvch (penalvch)]

ar, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Raring reached EOL on January 27, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

If this is reproducible in a supported release, please file a new report.