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Bumblebee crashes during boot with kernel 4.13.0.31 on Bionic

Bug #1745049 reported by walkerstreet on 2018-01-23

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bumblebee (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	linux (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

My laptop (Dell XPS 15 9560) fails to boot to the login screen when bumblebee is installed and running with the latest Bionic kernel 4.13.0.31. I recently upgraded to Bionic using update-manager -d.
My workaround is to use the old kernel 4.13.0.25.26 instead. My laptop boots fine with the old kernel and bumblebee works.
I suspect there is some problem with bumblebee's compatibility with the new kernel.

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walkerstreet (dbonner) wrote on 2018-01-24:

I have just tested my laptop by installing the mainline kernel 4.14.15. It boots fine and bumblebee works fine. So it looks like this upstream kernel work OK with bumblebee. Incidentally, I found out that I need to install libelf-dev in order for kernel modules to get built successfully with this upstream kernel.

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walkerstreet (dbonner) wrote on 2018-01-25:

I found out that the 4.13.0.31 kernel was from the artful security repo. When I use 'dkms status' it shows that the bumblebee and nvidia kernel modules appear to be present. I just tried booting with the 4.14.0.31 kernel again. This time it did not crash. However, it appeared that my graphics card lost its' capability and the screen was drawing windows very slowly. I lost my ability to change the screen resolution. I think there is something wrong with kernel 4.13.0.31.

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walkerstreet (dbonner) wrote on 2018-01-25:

This bug affects kernel 4.13.0.31 and nvidia drivers

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Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot) wrote on 2018-01-25: Missing required logs.

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. While running an Ubuntu kernel (not a mainline or third-party kernel) please enter the following command in a terminal window:

apport-collect 1745049

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
tags:	added: bionic

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walkerstreet (dbonner) wrote on 2018-01-25:

The bug in the kernel disables my nvidia video driver as well as disabling wifi and usb networking. I have no access to the internet so I can not submit an apport-collect.