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questionask

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Registered: 2021-01-09

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[SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

My system freezes during boot since I just updated AMD ucode and firmware on a T14s Gen3 AMD. I tried it with vanilla, zen, hardened, and lts.

I hope other people can report this problem, too.

SOLVED: Downgrading to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-2 worked for me as well. I could change the kernel command line in GRUB and do it from a shell.

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killertofus

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

start here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855 http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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questionask

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Registered: 2021-01-09

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

The last boot message I get is "Starting Create System Files and Directories..." (and /tmp just before might be a bit longer than usual). After a few seconds, I get a black screen. My desktop environment is KDE.

It's not so easy to give log files when my computer does not boot.

mib1982

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Any chance your update also included linux-firmware-amdgpu? Same suspicion here about amd-ucode, but for me, it turned out to be the firmware package.

Went back to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-2 and boot times were normal again. Yours won't boot at all, so it might be something else entirely, but still worth a look.

glsk

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Registered: 2014-08-05

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Any chance your update also included linux-firmware-amdgpu? Same suspicion here about amd-ucode, but for me, it turned out to be the firmware package.

Went back to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-2 and boot times were normal again. Yours won't boot at all, so it might be something else entirely, but still worth a look.

Thanks, you saved my bacon! I didn't wait for more than a few minutes, so cannot tell if it eventually boots on linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260910-1. RX 6800S here.

questionask

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Registered: 2021-01-09

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Downgrading to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-2 worked for me as well. I could change the kernel command line in GRUB and do it from a shell.

Rheuz

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Registered: 2021-05-03

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Thanks for posting this. I can confirm:

linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260910-1, and its DMUB (display microcontroller) firmware fails on my Radeon 680M. Every boot since shows, on the iGPU (07:00.0):

[drm] *ERROR* Error getting DMUB FW meta info: 4
[drm] Wait for DMUB auto-load failed: 3
[drm] *ERROR* Error queueing DMUB command: status=2  (256 times this boot)

Downgrading to 20260810-2 resolved the issues for me.

jbreizh

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Registered: 2012-10-20

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Same problem : boot fine, launch login manager to select session and password but hard crash when launching session.
Same solution : Downgrading to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-2 (i try Downgrading to linux-firmware-amdgpu 20260810-3 but doesn't work)

Hardware : desktop with AMD Ryzen 5 7600 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Please stop with the pointless me too posts.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … mpty_posts

==> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … k_items/52
I think AMD got the message meantime

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jbreizh

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Registered: 2012-10-20

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Sorry but my computer doesn't crash every morning and i need it to work.... so i look the forum, find the only post related to my crash but on laptop hardware. Post a 8 response on the post to add that it doesn't work on desktop hardware also and you have to choose the especially the 2 pkg and the answer is if i translate "shut the f*** up" and a reminder of the law
Ok it's maybe a little bit aggressive. Just pointing on the upstream bug report is enough.
But anyway have a nice sunday

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

"shut the f*** up" … a little bit aggressive

Please

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Re: [SOLVED] System freezes during boot with most recent firmware (AMD)

Moderator Note
Closing this thread before it gets heated.

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