DRM Framebuffer crash; invalid framebuffer id; Thinkpads with Intel X4500HD

[Jones D. Le]

I am using Lucid beta now with kernel 2.6.32-13-generic. Once the computer start up, it crash right after Plymouth. Between the time where GDM is about to start. The screen generate garbage as you type.

All I got from the screen and in dmesg is:

[ 5.296517] [drm:drm_mode:getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id

My laptop is Intel X4500HD built-in gfx

[Jones D. Le (joneslee85)]

Log files

[Jones D. Le (joneslee85)]

Today it got 1 extra warning:

[drm:i915_gem_execbuffer] *ERROR* Object f65ade0 appears more than once in object list

[Nikita Vetoshkin (nikita-vetoshkin)]

The same here with Lenovo R61 on i965.

Nothing helps. The only message is "*ERROR* invalid framebuffer id". Upgrading kernel to this http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.33-rc8/ - doesn't help either =(

[Mike Steigerwalt (mikesteigerwalt)]

A ctrl+f7 seems to get you back into the GDM after it crashes again.

Also with a toshiba p505-s8980. Graphics chipset in that is a 4500MHD, same-ish hardware.

Bug #527180 seems to describe this same bug.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I get this as well on a Thinkpad X301 with a X4500HD card, but not on 100% of boots; on some boots things just work.

The symptoms are:
you get a mouse on a black screen, but the cursor is blinking on the top left; after a couple of seconds I get some kernel messages from sda or sdb in the top left where the cursor was; pressing some keys results in weird chars being written at the top left too. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 goes back to a clean tty1, and pressing Ctrl-Alt-F7 goes back to a clean gdm. If I try to login from that gdm, I see:
Feb 25 09:12:35 bee kernel: [ 28.609195] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
then gdm respawns the login screen, and I can login normally.

[Nikita Vetoshkin (nikita-vetoshkin)]

I suppose X3100 can be added to the summary

[pablomme (pablomme)]

I get something very similar on my laptop which has Intel 945GM graphics. It also happens at random, but more often than not, I'm afraid. I can switch to VT1 then to VT7, thus entering the desktop, but if I try to use, say, update-manager, X will crash after entering the password -- the same happens for any other gksudo dialogue I invoke. The 'invalid framebuffer id' error briefly flashes before gdm respawns.

Searching for this bug I found instances of the 'invalid framebuffer id' error message for ATI and nvidia cards too, see bug #509273 (radeon driver), bug #528490 and bug #529842 (noveau driver), and bug #527180 (unspecified driver), all appearing to have similar, although not identical, symptoms. May this be a deeper problem with KMS in the kernel itself, or with plymouth, or with their interaction, rather than with specific hardware?

[Nikita Vetoshkin (nikita-vetoshkin)]

Agree with pablomme. Yesterday I managed to launch gnome-session without gdm and it works fine.

[kdawgud (kleber)]

I get my display to crash when I try fast user switching. This is the only strange message I see in /var/log/syslog.

[kdawgud (kleber)]

Sorry, forgot to mention I also have the x4500HD on my laptop

[KOCMOHABT (kocmo)]

I get the same error messages "[drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id" in dmesg, but instead of crashing kdm doesn't let me login. If I try to login through kdm, it logs me out right away, and I get the following in my Xorg.log simultaneously with dmesg errors:

Xorg.log:(EE) intel(0): Couldn't create pixmap for fbcon
Xorg.log:(EE) intel(0): Couldn't create pixmap for fbcon

If I use gdm instead of kdm, I can login fine, and X works as expected.

[kaushal (kaushalshriyan)]

I get the error messages in dmesg on Ubuntu Desktop 10.04.

[ 3164.724958] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
[ 3299.107288] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id

Laptop Model : Dell Vostro A860
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

Attaching the Output of lshw as an attachment.

[Keith Blow (keith-backblow-loft)]

I had this problem on a regular PC. Reverting to kernel 2.6.31 cured the problem.

[Evgeny Burzak (buzzilo)]

I had similar problem: Xorg sometimes hangs up with that *ERROR*.
Laptop: Lenovo t500, Intel X4500.

[Rodolfo Boer (rodolfo-mv)]

I have the same problem with a radeon card on my laptop. I solved it by setting CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y in the kernel config.

[Torsten Franz (torsten.franz)]

I have the same error too. My system were frozen and I have to kill all xchat and evolution processes to have a system which were running.

from the syslog
Nov 15 16:36:57 ubuntu kernel: [20407.621627] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
Nov 15 16:37:32 ubuntu acpid: client 942[0:0] has disconnected
Nov 15 16:37:32 ubuntu acpid: client connected from 942[0:0]
Nov 15 16:37:32 ubuntu acpid: 1 client rule loaded
Nov 15 16:37:32 ubuntu kernel: [20442.158188] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id

my hardware:
torsten@ubuntu:/etc$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Device 7914
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 2)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)

[Torsten Franz (torsten.franz)]

oh sorry, I have forgotten: my system is:

Lucid
torsten@ubuntu:/etc$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 16 14:58:24 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[sae.area (saearea-test)]

Hi,

I have a Toshiba Satellite A210 with mobility Radeon HD 2400.
- 2.6.35-22-generic #34~lucid1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 11 14:36:18 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
I got this error, but followed advise of #15 and it disappeared. I do have this error again when I switch to VT2-6 via "Ctrl+Alt+F2-6" and upon returning via Ctrl+Alt+F7 I find this error in dmesg. But the system stability seems not to be affected.

sae

[thewk (theewk)]

I get this error mesage with Ubuntu 10.10 running ATI X1250 but only sometimes and after I resume from suspend. Most of the time suspend / wake works well.

[wavesailor (wavesailor)]

I have the same issue:
I get this error mesage with Ubuntu 10.10 running on a Fujitsu Lifebook S7020 (VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)) but only sometimes and after I resume from suspend. Most of the time suspend / wake works well.

Last entry in kernel.log is:
Feb 2 10:14:45 LIFEBOOK-S7020 kernel: [31140.448476] [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id

[Mikael Frykholm (mikael)]

I get the same with 2.6.38-5-generic #32-Ubuntu on
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
I kill X with ALT-SYSRQ-K to get it to restarts.
The text consoles still work.

[Daniël van Eeden (dveeden)]

I get this issue with 2.6.38-9-generic. In .xsession-errors there is also an error: "bad event received, major opcode 34" which is caused by the synapitics input devices (syndaemon).

[Dave Lauer (dlauer)]

I have this same problem with 2.6.38-8-generic. Text consoles still work, X appears to be fried.