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R13N

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Registered: 2015-01-17

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[Solved] Nouveau error spam on boot

Hi, I have been using arch on my laptop for about a year now and I recently did a fresh install. The first time I tried it, everything went fine until I installed cinnamon and GDM (GNOME Display Manager). When I started GDM and logged in, it froze after about a minute and after rebooting it wouldn't start again. I did a clean install again (maybe I did something wrong) and now I have a completely clean install.

The first time I boot I get spammed with an enormous list of errors. These are the first and last lines of the 14k lines long error log:

-- Logs begin at Thu 2015-07-09 15:35:31 CEST, end at Thu 2015-07-09 15:37:29 CEST. --
Jul 09 15:35:31 Wheatley kernel: Ignoring BGRT: invalid status 0 (expected 1)
Jul 09 15:35:31 Wheatley kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found
Jul 09 15:35:31 Wheatley kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x122130 [ IBUS ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x11d9f8 0x00011ee2 (0x1c400200)
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP0: 0xbad00100 0xbad00100 (0xbad00100)
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP1: 0x19408201 0x1d408201 (0xbadf1002)
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x10f65c [ IBUS TIMEOUT ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x10ecc0 0xffffffff (0x1940822c)
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP0: 0x10f160 0xbad00110 (0x1d408201)
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[    PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x132020 [ IBUS ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[     PGR][0000:01:00.0] failed to load fuc409c
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] Pointer to TMDS table invalid
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] Pointer to flat panel table invalid
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] unsupported engines 0x00000001
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[     DRM] failed to create kernel channel, -22
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:33 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
...
This goes on for a while
...
Jul 09 15:35:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]
Jul 09 15:35:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] runlist 4 update timeout
Jul 09 15:35:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK08 ]

When I reboot, the error log ends with the following:

Jul 09 16:13:37 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK06 ]
Jul 09 16:13:37 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK06 ]
Jul 09 16:13:37 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK06 ]
Jul 09 16:13:38 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] runlist 4 update timeout
Jul 09 16:13:38 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] SCHED_ERROR [ UNK06 ]
Jul 09 16:13:38 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] FB_FLUSH_TIMEOUT
Jul 09 16:13:40 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 0: 0x00000000 5
Jul 09 16:13:41 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 1: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:41 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] FB_FLUSH_TIMEOUT
Jul 09 16:13:44 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 0: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:46 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 1: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:46 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] FB_FLUSH_TIMEOUT
Jul 09 16:13:46 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] FB_FLUSH_TIMEOUT
Jul 09 16:13:48 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 0: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 1: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:50 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[   PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] FB_FLUSH_TIMEOUT
Jul 09 16:13:52 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 0: 0x00004000 5
Jul 09 16:13:54 Wheatley kernel: nouveau E[      VM][0000:01:00.0] vm timeout 1: 0x00004000 5

It looks like it's the GPU driver who has issues. My laptop has a Nvidia GTX 850M and Intel integrated graphics.

I know that when I installed arch for the first time on this laptop, I also had some graphical issues. I know there was a point where the installation USB would give a black screen and I think I fixed that by using custom kernel parameters. However I'm not sure since that's a long time ago.

My previous installation didn't even have Nvidia drivers installed because of the issues I had with it, and my system ran perfectly fine with the Intel Graphics. So is there a way to fix this problem by forcing to use the Intel graphics? Or could there be another solution?

EDIT: My system even froze by executing lspci. I took a picture of it: http://imgur.com/BjxYEc6

Last edited by R13N (2015-07-18 11:00:25)

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved] Nouveau error spam on boot

Not an installation issue, moving to NC.

Since you have both intel and nvidia graphics, have you looked at this?

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R13N

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Registered: 2015-01-17

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Nouveau error spam on boot

Yeah, my plan was on installing bumblebee with this installation. But I first want to get my system working with the Intel graphics since I know for sure that's working.

R13N

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Registered: 2015-01-17

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Nouveau error spam on boot

I think I solved the problem by adding nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel parameters. The error messages at boot are gone, and I can execute lspci without my laptop crashing.

paulbarbee

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Registered: 2010-08-20

Posts: 49

Re: [Solved] Nouveau error spam on boot

Thank you so much, R13N!!! I've been going crazy trying to figure out why Arch won't boot and hangs on lspci with nouveau errors. Adding nouveau.modeset=0 to the kernel parameters solved my error too.