Post-Install issues

Deemoney14 · 2011-08-31 01:46:19

So I've just installed x86_64 Arch Linux via net install on /dev/sda2 of my new laptop, an Asus A53E-XA1. I notice some things appear to be problematic, and a few might be related:

1. There is a panic on boot. It flies by quickly, but I saw it on first boot and it's present in the dmesg.log. I'll try to ssh into this computer and paste the panic:

[    3.665611] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    3.665664] kernel BUG at drivers/media/media-entity.c:346!
[    3.665711] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[    3.665861] CPU 1
[    3.665901] Modules linked in: ath uvcvideo(+) cfg80211 asus_nb_wmi videodev asus_wmi media serio_raw r8169 sparse_keymap pci_hotplug evdev radeon(+) v4l2_com
pat_ioctl32 psmouse pcspkr k10temp(+) rfkill mii i2c_piix4(+) snd_hda_codec_hdmi sg ac battery ttm snd_hda_intel(+) drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec wmi snd_hwdep dr
m thermal video processor button snd_pcm snd_timer i2c_algo_bit snd i2c_core soundcore snd_page_alloc ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sr_mod cdrom sd_mod pata_acpi ohci_
hcd ahci libahci pata_atiixp libata ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore
[    3.666678]
[    3.666678] Pid: 388, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.0-ARCH #1 ASUSTeK Computer Inc. K53U /K53U
[    3.666678] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa00d70cf>]  [<ffffffffa00d70cf>] media_entity_create_link+0x10f/0x120 [media]
[    3.666678] RSP: 0018:ffff880231547bb8  EFLAGS: 00010246
[    3.666678] RAX: ffff88023058e800 RBX: ffff88023058e870 RCX: 0000000000000000
[    3.666678] RDX: ffff88023058f870 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88023058e870
[    3.666678] RBP: ffff880231547bf8 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: ffff8802319eda00
[    3.666678] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88023058f870
[    3.666678] R13: ffff8802315c9480 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[    3.666678] FS:  00007feec6a89700(0000) GS:ffff88023ed00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[    3.666678] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[    3.666678] CR2: 00007f2e88a777a0 CR3: 00000002315d4000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[    3.666678] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[    3.666678] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[    3.666678] Process modprobe (pid: 388, threadinfo ffff880231546000, task ffff8802315e23f0)
[    3.666678] Stack:
[    3.666678]  ffff880231547bf8 ffffffffa00d73db 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[    3.666678]  ffff88023058f800 ffff8802315c9480 ffff88023058f870 ffff8802315c9498
[    3.666678]  ffff880231547c48 ffffffffa03c2334 ffff880230580068 ffff8802ffffffff
[    3.666678] Call Trace:
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa00d73db>] ? media_entity_init+0x3b/0xa0 [media]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa03c2334>] uvc_mc_register_entities+0x1d4/0x290 [uvcvideo]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa03b8a70>] uvc_probe+0x3d0/0x2600 [uvcvideo]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa000d543>] usb_probe_interface+0xd3/0x1e0 [usbcore]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812e9ece>] driver_probe_device+0x7e/0x1b0
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812ea0ab>] __driver_attach+0xab/0xb0
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812ea000>] ? driver_probe_device+0x1b0/0x1b0
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812ea000>] ? driver_probe_device+0x1b0/0x1b0
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812e8e8c>] bus_for_each_dev+0x5c/0x90
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812e9b5e>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812e97b0>] bus_add_driver+0x1a0/0x270
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff812ea616>] driver_register+0x76/0x140
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff810ca289>] ? tracepoint_module_notify+0x29/0x30
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa000c39d>] usb_register_driver+0x9d/0x190 [usbcore]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa03c9000>] ? 0xffffffffa03c8fff
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffffa03c9020>] uvc_init+0x20/0x3a [uvcvideo]
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff81002040>] do_one_initcall+0x40/0x180
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff8109d3bf>] sys_init_module+0x8f/0x200
[    3.666678]  [<ffffffff813f4402>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[    3.666678] Code: 4c 8b 6d e8 4c 8b 75 f0 4c 8b 7d f8 c9 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 b8 f4 ff ff ff eb dd 66 83 6b 3e 01 b8 f4 ff ff ff eb d1 0f 0b 0f 0b <0f> 0b 66
66 66 66 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5
[    3.666678] RIP  [<ffffffffa00d70cf>] media_entity_create_link+0x10f/0x120 [media]
[    3.666678]  RSP <ffff880231547bb8>

Guessing that's all of it due to the timestamp of the code.

2. The following message gets printed LITERALLY every second to /var/log/errors.log:

localhost udevd[287]: timeout: killing 'usb_id --export /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/video4linux/video0' [457]

I have a feeling 1 and 2 are related, and it's something to do with the webcam. I haven't done anything special to it, I just followed the Beginner's Guide with a few safe alterations (I added a few extra packages specific to my system and didn't install a bootloader so I could mooch on Linux Mint's).

3. I can't get sound to work. I installed alsamixer and unmuted the S/PDIF channel, the only channel there is. It shows 00, but I can't adjust it up or down. Trying to run speaker-test gives the following message:

ALSAlib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory

I tried installing OSS, but it hung on the OSS install script (or I got impatient and rebooted the system prematurely >.>). Linux Mint's sound works fine, so I couldn't tell you if it's a hardware issue.

4. There is a LOT of information being printed to the terminal, things I guess I'd usually expect from an stderr that would show up in a log file rather than in the shell. This might be a GRUB thing, since I'm mooching from Linux Mint, so if it is, please kindly e-smack me for being a help vampire and help me help myself.

Sorry if this is a shotgun of material, but I've only done this install twice, once in Virtualbox. The laptop is fairly new, and it runs on an AMD motherboard with AMD integrated graphics, but I doubt graphics are an issue since I was able to install X and load an X terminal fine. Other vital hardware specs: Using 8 GB of RAM (Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz, 2x4GB) and a Crucial m4 128 GB SSD, Firmware revision 0009. Arch is running on /dev/sda2 of an MBR-based partitioning scheme (I let Mint partition the hard drive after my GPT-based manual partition failed...), I created an ext4 file system on /dev/sda2 in Mint with Gparted before I installed Arch, and used only that mount point as /, no swap or separate /boot, /var or anything (I know it's sloppy).

Help on any of these matters is appreciated.

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#1 2011-08-31 01:46:19

Post-Install issues

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