[Solved] Kernel 3.16.0 and i915 causes Kwin crashes

amish · 2014-08-13 18:01:36

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND 1:
Disable OpenGL.
Goto System Setting-Desktop effects-Disable Desktop effects-Go to advanced-Change Compositing type XRender

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND 2:
Use uxa: (Seems UXA automatically disables OpenGL)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … SNA_issues

WORKAROUND for mplayer
Add/change these two lines in config file:

vo=x11
zoom=yes

First line makes mplayer use X11 driver instead of OpenGL
Second line enables software zoom for full screen mode.

UPDATE: the solution below (MODULES) does not work. Issue has resurfaced.

Ok so I upgraded to 3.16.0.

I had this in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

MODULES="i915"

i.e. it loads i915 immediately on system boot.

When system started, it showed some kind of error related to i915 but system continued to boot.

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

After booting into KDE. If I start konsole or firefox or anything, it would not show Window title bar and the buttons (minimize / close). i.e. looks like window manager fails to load.

Manually starting kwin crashes again with following error:

kwin(5507) KWin::Compositor::slotCompositingOptionsInitialized: Initializing OpenGL compositing
kwin(5507) KWin::GlxBackend::initDrawableConfigs: Drawable visual (depth 24 ): 0x "68"
kwin(5507) KWin::GlxBackend::initDrawableConfigs: Drawable visual (depth 32 ): 0x "4e"
kwin(5507) KWin::GlxBackend::initBuffer: Buffer visual (depth 24 ): 0x "67"
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile IntelÂ® GM45 Express Chipset
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 10.2.5
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
Driver: Intel
GPU class: i965
OpenGL version: 2.1
GLSL version: 1.20
Mesa version: 10.2.5
X server version: 1.16
Linux kernel version: 3.16
Direct rendering: yes
Requires strict binding: no
GLSL shaders: yes
Texture NPOT support: yes
Virtual Machine: no
kwin(5507) KWin::GlxBackend::init: Direct rendering: true
kwin(5507) KWin::SceneOpenGL2::slotColorCorrectedChanged: Color correction: false
kwin(5507) KWin::SceneOpenGL2::SceneOpenGL2: OpenGL 2 compositing successfully initialized
kwin(5507) KWin::currentRefreshRate: Vertical Refresh rate 60 Hz
intel_do_flush_locked failed: Invalid argument

So I removed i915 from MODULES and ran:

mkinitcpio -p linux

And rebooted.

And KDE started to work fine.

I dont have exact log for error but it appears something wrong with i915 module OR kernel?

Posting this message so that it can help others who has similar issue.

i.e. remove i915 from MODULES in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and run:

mkinitcpio -p linux

and then reboot.

Last edited by amish (2014-10-08 01:47:41)

amish · 2014-08-14 01:18:52

Ok this issue is not resolved by above solution.

Its back to not showing the window title and window buttons.

There is something which is breaking window manager.

amish · 2014-08-14 02:15:10

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND 1:
Disable OpenGL.
Goto System Setting-Desktop effects-Disable Desktop effects-Go to advanced-Change Compositing type XRender

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND 2:
Use uxa: (Seems UXA automatically disables OpenGL)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … SNA_issues

Last edited by amish (2014-08-15 03:59:05)

graysky · 2014-08-14 08:43:52

Still present in 3.16.1-1?

amish · 2014-08-14 08:53:00

3.16.1 is still in testing repo. Has not appeared in pacman updates for me.

graysky · 2014-08-14 16:23:28

Manually pull it or enable testing? My point was that it might be solved in there, check out the 3.16.1 changelog.

yungtrizzle · 2014-08-14 16:49:31

It's not fixed. I just pulled in the update about an hour ago.

running through my journal logs I found this

 [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 (valid? 1) head 0000a02c tail 00000000 start 00303
 [drm:i915_gem_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged

seems like a rogue commit somewhere

LudaOtaku · 2014-08-14 16:52:43

Hello,

Yesterday in the evening I decided to install quite a lot of stuff (almost only GNOME and Cinnamon related stuff) on my Arch laptop (HP EliteBook 2530p), including the update to Linux 3.16.1-1. I then just shut down the computer. This morning I booted it and the GPU apparently failed to initialize for some reasons. I tried running mkinitcpio -p linux again and checked whether the i915 module was still in the MODULE section, and that was the case.

Honestly I don't know what to do, dmesg | grep ERROR outputs this

[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 (valid? 1) head 0000d0a4 tail 00000000 start 00303000 [expected 00303000]
[drm:i915_gem_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged

The Intel graphics driver is properly installed (and it worked before that kernel update anyway).

Did I miss something? I seriously don't understand what's going on. The computer boots properly and displays lxdm just fine, however I can't get Cinnamon to work as it keeps telling me it crashed and asks me if I want to restart it. The only thing that's displayed is my wallpaper and the cursor.

Has this already happened to someone before?

argymeg · 2014-08-14 17:07:40

I am having the same issue with linux 3.16-2 (3.16.1-1 has apparently not been pushed to my mirror yet). LXDE works fine, however anything that depends on more advanced graphics (like any game or glxgears, or even video playback with VLC) crashes at launch. The common error message in all situations is:

intel_do_flush_locked failed: Input/output error

Shark · 2014-08-14 17:44:55

I am having the same problem as described above and it is pain in the ass. For me It lasts for about two months now. As a workaround i use LTS kernel. The problem appeared in late june to other people too https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183350.

I also use i915 driver( intel GMA 4500m graphic card).

graysky · 2014-08-14 19:12:19

I get similar output:

[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 (valid? 1) head 00000298 tail 00000000 start 001d8000 [expected 001d8000]
[drm:i915_gem_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged

% lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GA-EG45M-DS2H Mainboard
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
	Memory at fd800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	I/O ports at ff00 [size=8]
	Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
	Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
	Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features
	Kernel driver in use: i915
	Kernel modules: i915

Has anyone reported this upstream?

Last edited by graysky (2014-08-14 19:12:53)

advibm · 2014-08-14 19:13:33

Hours of googling and now I'm here.. I've got the same problem on my intel GPU (Thinkpad).
It would not be a big problem if mplayer could still show videos since i3 does not need much graphics resources but unfortunately thats not the case.
i915.i915_enable_rc6=0 does not work.

I know that a kernel downgrade would probably fix it but I do not want to do that.

Last edited by advibm (2014-08-14 19:18:42)

jasonwryan · 2014-08-14 20:37:34

Merging with existing thread...

raymondcal · 2014-08-14 20:54:10

Why did you merge this thread ? This bug crashes Gnome 3 too !
Same thing here on my Toshiba Satellite C640 with same error messages.
Gnome 3 (or gdm) cannot start, and only displays the "Oh nooo, something went wrong" screen.
There are explanations here : https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-ser … available/ but I don't know what to do with them, I even don't know if these explanations are related to the bug.

LudaOtaku · 2014-08-14 21:03:12

Yeah I created a new thread because this one just wasn't the same issue as the "*ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged" one... (At least, to me it didn't look similar at all, because it was KDE-related, which I never used).

Anyway, removing "i915" from the /etc/mkinicpio.conf file fixed it and now Cinnamon runs just fine, but I still don't understand why this happens.

Last edited by LudaOtaku (2014-08-14 21:03:47)

graysky · 2014-08-14 21:26:34

Ok, many are affected. Did the OP open a report upstream yet?

diegoviola · 2014-08-15 02:49:10

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frikilinux · 2014-08-15 03:39:47

After build xf86-video-intel-git from AUR everything work fine again, for now

kernel 3.16.1-1
xf86-video-intel-git-2.99.914.55.gf8e632f

edit: not working again

Last edited by frikilinux (2014-08-15 03:59:31)

amish · 2014-08-15 03:45:28

graysky wrote:

Ok, many are affected. Did the OP open a report upstream yet?

I did not open report upstream because I could not find where the problem is.

Is it kernel?
Is it i915 intel module?
Is it OpenGL? (Mostly its OpenGL)

Plus I see there is already bug report on this issue.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41045

The bug existing for some user in previous kernel as well (3.15)

My first solution (remove i915 from MODULES) worked only once. But it started crashing.

Now I upgraded to 3.16.1 but bug still exists.

Currently only solution is to disable OpenGL OR use UXA

WORKAROUND for mplayer
Add/change these two lines in config file:

vo=x11
zoom=yes

First line makes mplayer use X11 driver instead of OpenGL
Second line enables software zoom for full screen mode.

Last edited by amish (2014-08-15 03:57:38)

graysky · 2014-08-15 08:58:05

amish wrote:

graysky wrote:
Ok, many are affected. Did the OP open a report upstream yet?
I did not open report upstream because I could not find where the problem is.
Is it kernel?
Is it i915 intel module?
Is it OpenGL? (Mostly its OpenGL)

graysky wrote:

[drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 (valid? 1) head 00000298 tail 00000000 start 001d8000 [expected 001d8000]
[drm:i915_gem_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged

I would open one upstream against the intel video component. The Arch bug report is ok, but given the scope of affects users, upstream needs to see it. You can create a bugzilla account and provide the details with dmesg there. If they want more they will ask.

fqqbar · 2014-08-15 13:44:26

Also get this error since last kernel update:

$ dmesg | grep ERROR
[    0.516681] [drm:init_ring_common] *ERROR* render ring initialization failed ctl 0001f001 (valid? 1) head 0000d05c tail 00000000 start 00303000 [expected 00303000]
[    0.516688] [drm:i915_gem_init] *ERROR* Failed to initialize GPU, declaring it wedged

$ sudo lspci -v
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Device 1458
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
        Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
        Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

argymeg · 2014-08-15 17:43:03

This bug report seems relevant, although it mentions the issue appearing before 3.16.

graysky · 2014-08-15 20:36:22

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82481

marioraun · 2014-08-16 20:49:43

For now, I just installed linux-lts (3.14.17-1-lts), as it seems this bug won't be fixed soon. Everything works as expected

diegoviola · 2014-08-18 06:51:46

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Last edited by diegoviola (2023-04-17 22:29:44)

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