Bug 2875

Summary:	kernel oops with latest GDM and fglrx -> request to upgrade fglrx-control-center (catalyst 11.9)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	kernel oops from logs cat of /proc/cpuinfo content of /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf cat of /proc/iomen plus /proc/ioports result of 'lsmod' result of 'lspci -vvv' as root result of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Description Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:06:40 CEST

Description of problem:

Normally I use GNOME with GDM and gnome-screensaver, but since various upgrades of both in combination with (otherwise well-working) systemd I decided to use xfce4 and kdm for now.

I use dkms-fglrx-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree and x11-driver-video-fglrx-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree to drive my AMD Radeon HD 6570 

The evening before last, after upgrading my Cauldron box, I thought GDM was working okay and I also returned to gnome-screensaver, but stayed with xfce4 as I couldn't get proper appearance in GNOME yet.

My box kept running that night and all yesterday but returning yesterday evening to it, I found that GDM had become stuck at 03:09 hours a.m. - as shown on screen - and I could not log in. The running session was still xfce4 and it had continued running all the time, according to the logs.

Also I was unable to change to any tty (which I could all days before with kdm and xscreensaver).

So after a reset I found a kernel oops 'happened' at 03:09 a.m. last night, as attached.

Processor is an Intel i7 950.

Comment 1 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:08:06 CEST

Created attachment 857 [details]
kernel oops from logs

Comment 2 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:10:53 CEST

Created attachment 858 [details]
cat of /proc/cpuinfo

Comment 3 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:12:56 CEST

Created attachment 859 [details]
content of /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

Manuel Hiebel 2011-09-29 20:14:03 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 4 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:14:40 CEST

Created attachment 860 [details]
cat of /proc/iomen plus /proc/ioports

Comment 5 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:16:00 CEST

Created attachment 861 [details]
result of 'lsmod'

Comment 6 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:17:38 CEST

Created attachment 862 [details]
result of 'lspci -vvv' as root

Comment 7 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:18:41 CEST

Created attachment 863 [details]
result of 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Comment 8 Thomas Backlund 2011-09-29 20:24:15 CEST

Hmmm,
I'm not sure there is much we can do here as it's the fglrx driver that crashes:

Sep 28 03:09:16 dvg kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
Sep 28 03:09:16 dvg kernel: IP: [<ffffffffa0490251>] _ZN20CMMHeap_SystemMemory8pushPoolEP7CMMPool+0x11/0x40 [fglrx]


Has it happend more than once ?

Comment 9 Dick Gevers 2011-09-29 20:26:44 CEST

No because right after I stopped using gdm.

Curious is that I was using fglrx for months w/o any probs.

I can understand what you say, but should I report it anywhere else (upstream for gdm or fglrx ?)

Thanks.

Comment 10 Dick Gevers 2011-09-30 14:56:04 CEST

I see catalyst (which is in fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree) is version 11.8, while AMD now has 11.9 since 28th September 2011 !

Please be so kind to package the new version from:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.42&lang=English

(I wouldn't ask for a package upgrade in Cauldron, except now that I had this kernel oops).

Thanks beforehand.

Assignee: tmb => bugsquad
Source RPM: kernel-server-3.0.4-1.mga2-1-1.mga2 => fglrx-control-center-8.881-1.mga2.nonfree

Dick Gevers 2011-09-30 15:01:43 CEST

Summary: kernel oops with latest GDM and fglrx => kernel oops with latest GDM and fglrx -> request to upgrade fglrx-control-center (catalyst 11.9)

Manuel Hiebel 2011-09-30 16:57:49 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannula

Comment 11 Dick Gevers 2011-11-02 21:36:20 CET

Installed and working, Thanks

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED