[Lenovo E450] 'Run Firmware Test Suite (fwts) desktop-specific diagnosis tests.' always fail

[Gabriel Zhi Chen]

CID : 201407-15368 Lenovo E450 (A+A) with 14.04.2 (utopic)

Steps:
1. Install 14.04.2 on E450
2. Install Plainbox and run test case 'Run FWTS desktop-specific diagnosis tests.'

Expected result:
Test result should be pass.

Actual result:
High Failures: 1
WARNING: The following test cases were reported as high
level failures by fwts. Please review the log at
/home/u/.cache/plainbox/sessions/pbox-1aqqz37_.session/CHECKBOX_DATA/fwts_desktop_diagnosis_results.log for more information.
 - klog
Medium Failures: 2
WARNING: The following test cases were reported as medium
level failures by fwts. Please review the log at
/home/u/.cache/plainbox/sessions/pbox-1aqqz37_.session/CHECKBOX_DATA/fwts_desktop_diagnosis_results.log for more information.
 - acpitables
 - mtrr
Low Failures: 1
WARNING: The following test cases were reported as low
level failures by fwts. Please review the log at
/home/u/.cache/plainbox/sessions/pbox-1aqqz37_.session/CHECKBOX_DATA/fwts_desktop_diagnosis_results.log for more information.
 - mcfg
Passed: 5
 - mpcheck
 - version
 - apicedge
 - apicinstance
 - hpet_check

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: linux-image-3.16.0-30-generic 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1 [modified: boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-30-generic]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Mar 19 05:51:36 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-18 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: linux-lts-utopic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

@Gabriel, sorry I can't see the related useful fwts log from the log you attached. Can you how many fwts tests were performed by "desktop-specific diagnosis tests" (this is not defined by fwts team). Probably you will need to run fwts manually to collect the log.

[Adam Lee (adam8157)]

@Keng-Yu, please help checking this log, thanks.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1433992

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[Ivan Hu (ivan.hu)]

For the failure,
 klog: HIGH Kernel message: [ 7.859557] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000000b00-0x0000000000000b07 conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000000b00-0x0000000000000b0f (\_SB_.PCI0.SMB_.SMB0) (20141107/utaddress-258)

is from the buggy bios, that acpi implemented the conflict IO 0x0B00, betwteen
    Scope (_SB.PCI0.SMB)
    {
        Mutex (SBX0, 0x00)
        OperationRegion (SMB0, SystemIO, 0x0B00, 0x10)
        Field (SMB0, ByteAcc, NoLock, Preserve)
        {
            HST0, 8,
            SLV0, 8,
            CNT0, 8,
            CMD0, 8,
            ADD0, 8,
            DT00, 8,
            DT10, 8,
            BLK0, 8
        }
        ...

and

                Device (SYSR)
                {
                    Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C02")) // _HID: Hardware ID
                    Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate () // _CRS: Current Resource Settings
                    {
                        ....
                        IO (Decode16,
                            0x0B00, // Range Minimum
                            0x0B00, // Range Maximum
                            0x01, // Alignment
                            0x20, // Length
                            )
                        IO (Decode16,
                        ....
                }

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Gabriel Zhi Chen, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1433992

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