X server crashes, screen turns black - Failed to submit batchbuffer

[Mindaugas Karpavičius]

Binary package hint: plymouth

Boot hangs on Acer TravelMate 2350 Lucid Lynx 10,04 beta 2 with linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic and pymouth 0.8.2-2.
I can boot with linux-image-2.6.32-20-generic without problem, but I cant see plymouth animation then.

Seems related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/566133

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

lspci output is attached

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

At what point does it hang? What is on the screen at the time it hangs?

What version of the linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic package do you have installed? A fix relevant to your video chipset is included in version 2.6.32-21.32.

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

Hi Steve,

Looks like computer hangs immediatly after plymouth starts. I see only black screen and hdd not shows any activity. I can switch off computer only with pressing and holding down power button.
Yes I have installed 2.6.32-21.32 version package.

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

 I see few blinks of Ubuntu logo, then I see only black screen and now boot process hangs.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

What do you get if you try to boot in rescue mode?

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

In rescue mode I can boot without problems.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

After booting in rescue mode, are you able to start X?

What happens if you boot normally, but without the 'splash' option?

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

No, I can't start X in rescue mode, i'm getting black screen. I was tried to remove splash option in grub.cfg, same result black screen

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Sounds like this is an X problem, then; reassigning.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Mindaugas,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

Hi Bryce,

Here it comes Xorg.o.log.old. Xorg.0.log is empty file.

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

Attached one more Xorg log file.
At the end of log is "Fatal server error:
Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error"

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

I just tried to boot up the computer from the Lucid Release Candidate CD, the same problem, X server hangs.

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

Looks like this bug is similiar to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/568779
I can boot with option "i915.modeset=1" without problems, but I can't see plymouth animation then.

[Mindaugas Karpavičius (mindaugas-karpavicius)]

I don't know this is connected to this bug or no. Now I can boot with option i915.modeser=1, but when I'm trying watch movie with VLC or Totem, X server crashes immediatly.

[nakki (titibanjekistan)]

Hi, i'm italian and my english is not very good...A friend of mine upgraded from 9.10 to lucid with an Acer TravelMate 2350. Now with 2.6.32.22 kernel, after ubuntu logo X doesn't start, and system stops in black screen. Ctrl-alt-f1;f2, and ctrl-alt-del have no effect. The only one mode to shutdown is pressing power button for a few seconds. With the recovery mode X starts, and yesterday evening we updated the whole system. But after reboot in normal mode no results.
Then i tried to start with the 2.6.31.21 karmic kernel, and it start X properly, but system seems not operate at 100%; for example firefox will not start. I attach lspci and lshw.

[nakki (titibanjekistan)]

some news about it?

[nlaunch (nicolas-hy)]

Idem Black screen when starting ! The screen says no signals... end keyboard any effect with any combination of any keys.

Linux kernel image for version 2.6.32 on x86/x86_64 linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic ver 36
Video intel computer type hp d530S pentium 4 2.ghz with

 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
05:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5782 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

the kernel seems to crash at mounting proc.... i have any log for dmesg with 2.6.22-32 just this syslog that stop to cannot read
proc

Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="302" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 102
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.32-22-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36
-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2)
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] KERNEL supported cpus:
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Intel GenuineIntel
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] AMD AuthenticAMD
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] NSC Geode by NSC
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Cyrix CyrixInstead
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Centaur CentaurHauls
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] Transmeta TransmetaCPU
Jun 16 16:54:02 famille kernel: [ 0.000000] UMC UMC UMC UMC
Jun 16 16:54:02 ...

[Dominik (dominalien)]

I have the same problem on Intel graphics (855 if I'm reading this correctly).

i915.modeset=1 makes the system boot, but trying to play any video in Totem or VLC will crash the X server immediately.

[Stenten (stenten)]

Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes