[jaunty upgrade on intel G45 1dec2008] xorg hangs and I get failsafe X followed by 4:3 vesa on my widescreen monitor

[Martin Olsson]

[jaunty upgrade on intel G45 1dec2008] xorg hangs and I get failsafe X followed by 4:3 vesa on my widescreen monitor.
In the failsafe X dialog I selected "archieve logs and stuff". I'm attaching this data.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

I can add that xorg crashes (and switches to failsafe) even before the GDM login screen comes up.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hmm, the Xorg.0.log shows no error, and the :0.log is from the failsafe session.
Are you able to reproduce this error? If so, please reproduce it and then attach your Xorg.0.log[.old] and all of your /var/log/:0.log* files. We're looking for an error message or backtrace, which should be at the end of one of these files.

Also, please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn`

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Yes, this is completely repeatable. Please let me know if there is any experiments that can help finding the bug.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

Note in particular the following error near the end of "syslog" (these were printed just when the crash happened):

Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.470694] [drm:i915_getparam] *ERROR* Unknown parameter 5
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.470696] [drm:drm_ioctl] ret = ffffffea
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.603375] [drm:drm_vm_shm_close] 0x7f2dc428a000,0x00002000
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.698970] [drm:drm_release] open_count = 1
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.698978] [drm:drm_release] pid = 10158, device = 0xe200, open_count = 1
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.698985] [drm:drm_release] File ffff88006d5eee40 released, freeing lock for context 1
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish kernel: [ 447.698987] [drm:drm_fasync] fd = -1, device = 0xe200
Dec 3 20:29:29 kingfish gdm[9880]: CRITICAL: gdm_config_value_get_bool: assertion `value->type == GDM_CONFIG_VALUE_BOOL' failed

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

The new logs were created using "2:2.5.1-1ubuntu4" which I got through synaptics today.

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

I got a new version of libdrm2 today but no change, Xorg still refuses to start in anything but VESA. Anything else I can do to provide better debugging information?

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

This bug is now fixed. Since I got several new packages at once I'm not exactly sure what fixed the bug.

Got installed new versions today:
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.5.1-1ubuntu5
libdrm-intel1 2.4.1-0ubuntu7
linux-image-2.6.28-2-generic 2.6.28-2.3
xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu5

With the default xorg.conf I now get booted straight into EXA with compiz etc.

[Mauro (jasmines)]

This is NOT fixed.
I've these versions installed, but I'm still experiencing the VESA mode only:

xserver-xorg-video-interl 2:2.7.99.1 (sarvatt)
libdrm-intel1 2.4.11 (sarvatt)
linux-image-2.6.28-12-server 2.6.28-12.43
xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18

[Martin Olsson (mnemo)]

@Mauro, please open a new bug report for your issue using the command "ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg-video-intel"