display freezes on boot

[WalterHangartner]

About half of the time the display freezes on boot. It is just before playing the welcome sound. It can also happen that it boots and then there is a popping noise in speakers which does not stop.

My analysis of syslog shows in case of freeze:

Aug 6 06:51:26 HTPC1010A3 kernel: [ 18.998078] EXT4-fs (sda6): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
Aug 6 06:51:26 HTPC1010A3 avahi-daemon[681]: Registering new address record for fe80::211:43ff:fe29:fa16 on eth0.*.
Aug 6 06:51:26 HTPC1010A3 rtkit-daemon[1183]: Successfully made thread 1216 of process 1216 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Aug 6 06:51:26 HTPC1010A3 rtkit-daemon[1183]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Aug 6 06:51:26 HTPC1010A3 pulseaudio[1216]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Aug 6 06:55:00 HTPC1010A3 kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Aug 6 06:55:00 HTPC1010A3 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="638" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Aug 6 06:55:00 HTPC1010A3 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
Aug 6 06:55:00 HTPC1010A3 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101
Aug 6 06:55:00 HTPC1010A3 rsyslogd-2039: Could no open output file '/dev/xconsole' [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2039 ]
In case of good boot:

ug 6 06:55:04 HTPC1010A3 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.
Aug 6 06:55:04 HTPC1010A3 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
Aug 6 06:55:04 HTPC1010A3 rtkit-daemon[1182]: Successfully made thread 1221 of process 1221 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.
Aug 6 06:55:04 HTPC1010A3 rtkit-daemon[1182]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Aug 6 06:55:04 HTPC1010A3 pulseaudio[1221]: pid.c: Daemon already running.
Aug 6 06:55:06 HTPC1010A3 ntpdate[1267]: step time server 91.189.94.4 offset 0.720882 sec
Aug 6 06:55:06 HTPC1010A3 kernel: [ 20.119385] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
Aug 6 06:55:14 HTPC1010A3 kernel: [ 28.048009] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Aug 6 06:56:08 HTPC1010A3 AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon
Aug 6 06:59:50 HTPC1010A3 ntfs-3g[1425]: Version 2010.3.6 external FUSE 28
Aug 6 06:59:50 HTPC1010A3 ntfs-3g[1425]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "", NTFS 3.1)

Note that in second case we have this IRQ timing error with sound card.

It seems this problem is related to graphics card HD4550 which outputs sound over HDMI. I am using open source drivers only.

In previous versions of ubuntu I had all kind of other problems with this card.

In 10.04 I had no sound at all.
With Windows 7 on same machine everything works perfectly.

I know there are always hints on configuring the model in alsa-conf but as my system is alpha-3 it would be good if somebody could tackle the real problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-14-generic 2.6.35-14.19
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.19-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/hwC0D0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xdfeec000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'ATI R6xx HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:1002aa01,00aa0100,00100100'
   Controls : 4
   Simple ctrls : 1
Card0.Amixer.values:
 Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
   Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
   Playback channels: Mono
   Mono: Playback [off]
Date: Fri Aug 6 10:13:49 2010
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=59639fe8-f216-4fbe-90b3-7d46e5095f54
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex GX280
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-14-generic root=UUID=35d227eb-c917-4429-9fd0-2f182cdd98cf ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.37
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 03/03/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0G8310
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd03/03/2006:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlexGX280:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0G8310:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX280
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi WalterHangartner,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[WalterHangartner (walter-hangartner)]

I checked with Kernel 2.6.35-17, and the bug disappeared

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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