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nouveau crashes often at boot in live USB/DVD

Bug #1438982 reported by marty1885
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linux (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Booting Ubuntu 15.04 in Live USB/DVD on my laptop often result in Nouveau crashing. If you survive the booting and installation process. Your Ubuntu installation has a chance of booting normally on HDD. If it boots normally this issue will never happen on your installation any more. However if you installation crashes of nouveau at the first boot. Your installation basically have no chance of booting normally, even after 10 or more reboots.

OS: Ubuntu 15.04 beta 64bit
Nouveau 1.0.11
Bios: uefi (security boot on or not does not matter)
CPU: I5 4210H
internal GPU: Intel HD 4600
external GPU: Nvidia GT860M

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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Missing required logs.

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

apport-collect 1438982

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.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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marty1885 (marty188586) wrote :

There is no terminal avliable.
nouveau's error message baaiclly flushes tty. And take over my control.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
marty1885 (marty188586)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

marty1885, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Could you please disable your nvidia card in BIOS, and then advise if the live environment still crashes?

no longer affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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marty1885 (marty188586) wrote :

Sorry for late reply. After disabling NV card in BIOS. Ubutnu is able to boot.
My current solution is to nomodeset while booting on live USB. After installing, boot into recovery mode, than blacklist nouveau.(and install Nvidia offical driver)

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

marty1885, could you please run the following command from a terminal as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect 1438982

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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