xorg many call traces on dell1525

[Galen Thurber]

after updating from 12.0.5 to 14.04 xorg is causing many
call traces on startup and shutdown

computer not causing call traces under linux lite 2.2, sparky [debian8]

[73852.453544] CPU: 0 PID: 1970 Comm: Xorg Tainted: G W 3.13.0-48-generic #80-Ubuntu
[73852.453547] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525 /0U990C, BIOS A13 06/27/2008
[73852.453550] 00000000 00000000 e3f8fb58 c1655f92 e3f8fb98 e3f8fb88 c1056a7e f8c2ccfc
[73852.453559] e3f8fbb4 000007b2 f8c2ab64 00002413 f8be2a1d f8be2a1d e4937000 e48305c0
[73852.453569] 00000000 e3f8fba0 c1056ad3 00000009 e3f8fb98 f8c2ccfc e3f8fbb4 e3f8fbf4
[73852.453578] Call Trace:
[73852.453587] [<c1655f92>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
[73852.453594] [<c1056a7e>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0xa0
[73852.453629] [<f8be2a1d>] ? intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453659] [<f8be2a1d>] ? intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453664] [<c1056ad3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40
[73852.453696] [<f8be2a1d>] intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453731] [<f8be2c20>] intel_set_mode+0x30/0x40 [i915]
[73852.453761] [<f8be2cf4>] intel_release_load_detect_pipe+0xc4/0xf0 [i915]
[73852.453806] [<f8c0912d>] intel_tv_detect+0x34d/0x510 [i915]
[73852.453818] [<c14fc101>] ? i2c_transfer+0x11/0xc0
[73852.453829] [<f856b158>] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x1d8/0x360 [drm_kms_helper]
[73852.453841] [<c165ada0>] ? mutex_lock+0x10/0x28
[73852.453875] [<f882c5cd>] drm_mode_getconnector+0x32d/0x390 [drm]
[73852.453902] [<f882c2a0>] ? drm_mode_getcrtc+0xc0/0xc0 [drm]
[73852.453920] [<f881f792>] drm_ioctl+0x472/0x500 [drm]
[73852.453947] [<f882c2a0>] ? drm_mode_getcrtc+0xc0/0xc0 [drm]
[73852.453956] [<c10174fe>] ? __switch_to_xtra+0xfe/0x130
[73852.453963] [<c1087c51>] ? set_next_entity+0xb1/0xe0
[73852.453970] [<c100ef30>] ? __switch_to+0x2c0/0x340
[73852.453987] [<f881f320>] ? drm_free_buffer+0x30/0x30 [drm]
[73852.453995] [<c118b092>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e2/0x4d0
[73852.454000] [<c1659718>] ? __schedule+0x358/0x770
[73852.454007] [<c12ff98b>] ? lockref_put_or_lock+0xb/0x30
[73852.454013] [<c117b9e5>] ? __fput+0x155/0x210
[73852.454018] [<c118b2e0>] SyS_ioctl+0x60/0x80
[73852.454023] [<c166430d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12
[73852.454027] ---[ end trace 1e49de400e8e1259 ]---

 example
[73852.453544] CPU: 0 PID: 1970 Comm: Xorg Tainted: G W 3.13.0-48-generic #80-Ubuntu
[73852.453547] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525 /0U990C, BIOS A13 06/27/2008
[73852.453550] 00000000 00000000 e3f8fb58 c1655f92 e3f8fb98 e3f8fb88 c1056a7e f8c2ccfc
[73852.453559] e3f8fbb4 000007b2 f8c2ab64 00002413 f8be2a1d f8be2a1d e4937000 e48305c0
[73852.453569] 00000000 e3f8fba0 c1056ad3 00000009 e3f8fb98 f8c2ccfc e3f8fbb4 e3f8fbf4
[73852.453578] Call Trace:
[73852.453587] [<c1655f92>] dump_stack+0x41/0x52
[73852.453594] [<c1056a7e>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0xa0
[73852.453629] [<f8be2a1d>] ? intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453659] [<f8be2a1d>] ? intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453664] [<c1056ad3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x40
[73852.453696] [<f8be2a1d>] intel_modeset_check_state+0x5dd/0x750 [i915]
[73852.453731] [<f8be2c20>] intel_set_mode+0x30/0x40 [i915]
[73852.453761] [<f8be2cf4>] intel_release_load_detect_pipe+0xc4/0xf0 [i915]
[73852.453806] [<f8c0912d>] intel_tv_detect+0x34d/0x510 [i915]
[73852.453818] [<c14fc101>] ? i2c_transfer+0x11/0xc0
[73852.453829] [<f856b158>] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x1d8/0x360 [drm_kms_helper]
[73852.453841] [<c165ada0>] ? mutex_lock+0x10/0x28
[73852.453875] [<f882c5cd>] drm_mode_getconnector+0x32d/0x390 [drm]
[73852.453902] [<f882c2a0>] ? drm_mode_getcrtc+0xc0/0xc0 [drm]
[73852.453920] [<f881f792>] drm_ioctl+0x472/0x500 [drm]
[73852.453947] [<f882c2a0>] ? drm_mode_getcrtc+0xc0/0xc0 [drm]
[73852.453956] [<c10174fe>] ? __switch_to_xtra+0xfe/0x130
[73852.453963] [<c1087c51>] ? set_next_entity+0xb1/0xe0
[73852.453970] [<c100ef30>] ? __switch_to+0x2c0/0x340
[73852.453987] [<f881f320>] ? drm_free_buffer+0x30/0x30 [drm]
[73852.453995] [<c118b092>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e2/0x4d0
[73852.454000] [<c1659718>] ? __schedule+0x358/0x770
[73852.454007] [<c12ff98b>] ? lockref_put_or_lock+0xb/0x30
[73852.454013] [<c117b9e5>] ? __fput+0x155/0x210
[73852.454018] [<c118b2e0>] SyS_ioctl+0x60/0x80
[73852.454023] [<c166430d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x12
[73852.454027] ---[ end trace 1e49de400e8e1259 ]---

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ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
DistUpgraded: 2015-03-23 21:01:37,729 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) [8086:2a02] (rev 0c) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:022f]
   Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:022f]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-21 (406 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.4 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20140205)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-54-generic root=UUID=d1fc9091-e4aa-4452-95ca-6fb62a02881f ro verbose=1 plymouth:debug loglevel=1 drm.debug=0xe nosplash=1 debug=1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-54.91-generic 3.13.11-ckt20
Tags: trusty ubuntu
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-54-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-03-24 (70 days ago)
UserGroups: pkcs11
_MarkForUpload: True
dmi.bios.date: 06/27/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0U990C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA13:bd06/27/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1525:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U990C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1525
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.4
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1.6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Tue Jun 2 09:44:48 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 13144
 vendor SEC
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Galen Thurber, you either don't have xdiagnose installed, or you didn't click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information.

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apport-collect 1437042

hopefully it will attach

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

ERROR: hook /usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py crashed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/report.py", line 197, in _run_hook
    symb['add_info'](report, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py", line 683, in add_info
    attach_3d_info(report, ui)
  File "/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py", line 406, in attach_3d_info
    xorglog = xorglog.encode('utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x8f in position 12048: ordinal not in range(128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 594, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 652, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 572, in run_update_report
    attachment_comment='apport information')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 374, in update
    report.write_mime(mime, skip_keys=skip_keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 507, in write_mime
    attach_value = CompressedValue(v, k).gzipvalue
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 44, in __init__
    self.set_value(value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 50, in set_value
    gzip.GzipFile(self.name, mode='wb', fileobj=out).write(value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 136, in __init__
    self._write_gzip_header()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 181, in _write_gzip_header
    self.fileobj.write(fname + '\000')
TypeError: 'unicode' does not have the buffer interface

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

ran fwts with the latest BIOS.
Some errors were reported.

Mainline Kernels will be also tested

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

ignore fwts results,
posted to wrong bug report

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

apport-collect 1437042
still failing to complete
... reports errors to terminal
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 594, in <module>
    app.run_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 652, in run_argv
    return self.run_update_report()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 572, in run_update_report
    attachment_comment='apport information')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apport/crashdb_impl/launchpad.py", line 374, in update
    report.write_mime(mime, skip_keys=skip_keys)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 507, in write_mime
    attach_value = CompressedValue(v, k).gzipvalue
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 44, in __init__
    self.set_value(value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/problem_report.py", line 50, in set_value
    gzip.GzipFile(self.name, mode='wb', fileobj=out).write(value)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 136, in __init__
    self._write_gzip_header()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 181, in _write_gzip_header
    self.fileobj.write(fname + '\000')
TypeError: 'unicode' does not have the buffer interface

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

3.13.0-53-generic

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computer CPU has been recently upgraded to 2.4GHz
call traces still occurring

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[penalvch (penalvch)]

Galen Thurber, as per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/inspiron-1525/drivers an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (A17). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status Confirmed.

Thank you for your understanding.

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[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Galen Thurber (godfree2)]

this may be caused by CPU (T6400) being listed as unstable
http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Intel_(chipsets)/PM965_Express.html
for the motherboard