i915 didn't work after dist upgrade until linux-firmware was manually reinstalled

[s.illes79]

Few days ago upgraded from 23.10 to 24.04

After upgrade nvidia drivers broke I couldn't even log in. I fixed that by purging and reinstall.

Now I can only log in to XOrg, cannot to Wayland is just black screen.

gnome-shell is using 200-800 % cpu, when doing anything ... like opening gnome settings, using spottily

System temperature is very high because of this, laptop is hardly usable.

Everything was normal in 23.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-shell 46.0-0ubuntu5.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue May 28 13:42:17 2024
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-12-08 (537 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 46.0-1ubuntu9
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-05-22 (6 days ago)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please try uninstalling:

'<email address hidden>', 'freon@UshakovVasilii_Github.yahoo.com', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>', '<email address hidden>'

Or more simply:

  cd ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/
  rm -rf extensions

and then log in again.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Oh actually it sounds like the problem might be that hardware acceleration isn't working:

[ 35.899866] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 35.899866] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.085749] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.088736] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: error: Kernel is too old (4.16+ required) or unusable for Iris.
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: Check your dmesg logs for loading failures.
[ 36.091930] tuxedo org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3332]: libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen

So either something went wrong with the dist upgrade or the Nvidia drivers (which are not present now) somehow broke the Intel drivers.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please run:

  journalctl -b0 > journal.txt

and attach the resulting file here.

[s.illes79 (s-illes79-gmail)]

tried intel, on-demand and nvidia prime mode. None works correct
Loads of firmware is missing. see nvidia.txt

[s.illes79 (s-illes79-gmail)]

Same issue reported here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1514352/ubuntu-24-04-with-nvidia-driver-libegl-warning-egl-failed-to-create-dri2-scre

Looks like the solution/hack might be to copy drivers from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915

I noticed:
|W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/mtl_gsc_1.bin for module i915

ls -l /lib/firmware/i915/mtl_huc_gsc.bin*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143249 Apr 10 00:14 /lib/firmware/i915/mtl_huc_gsc.bin.zst

files are there but zipped.

[s.illes79 (s-illes79-gmail)]

I can confirm that manually copying the i915 firmware
from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/i915
to /lib/firmware/i915

regenerate initramfs and reboot.

All normal.

So upgrade broke the 915 firmware package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.