Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-intel package

ubiquity-dm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm interface version

Bug #831884 reported by Jean-Baptiste Lallement
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Ubuntu Installer Team
Oneiric
Won't Fix
Medium
Ubuntu Installer Team
xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Unassigned
Oneiric
Invalid
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Oneiric Desktop 20110822

TEST CASE:
1. Create a USB stick from latest ISO
2. Boot it

Result:
X fails to come up.
The following error message is displayed in the logs:
[ 25.249] (EE) intel(0): [drm] failed to set drm interface version.
[ 25.249] (EE) intel(0): Failed to become DRM master.
[ 25.250] (EE) intel(0): failed to get resources: Bad file descriptor
[ 25.250] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Reproduced on Arrandale and Pineview

WORKAROUND:
Press Left-Shift on boot and select 'Try Ubuntu' from the menu

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.13-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.279
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Tue Aug 23 09:56:01 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ac]
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:83ac]
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110823)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1015PE
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-intel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/31/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0402
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1015PE
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0402:bd05/31/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1015PE:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1015PE:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1015PE
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.0-0ubuntu5
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

See original description
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Undecided → Critical
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu-X (ubuntu-x-swat)
milestone: none → ubuntu-11.10-beta-1
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Not sure that's a problem with the driver.

X is running on display :0. If I kill X and run startx the desktop starts.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

I also noticed that /etc/apt/sources.list is trashed with binary data from lightdm.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Ok, so maybe lightdm is starting too early?

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
summary: - X fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm interface
- version
+ lightdm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm
+ interface version
summary: lightdm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm
- interface version
+ interface version (plymouth race ?)
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: lightdm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm interface version (plymouth race ?)

bug 585853 shows a similar issue with xdm/wdm. Adding task for lightdm

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric):
milestone: ubuntu-11.10-beta-1 → none
importance: Critical → High
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Undecided → Critical
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Ubuntu-X (ubuntu-x-swat) → nobody
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

If I start with --verbose on the command line, then selects 'Try Ubuntu', the live session boots correctly.
That confirms it is not a driver issue. Closing the corresponding task.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: New → Invalid
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Thanks I believe I had this problem with the live CD today also with Intel graphics; I used nomodeset to be able to get the live environment to come up.

Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)
description: updated
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Confirmed on a Dell Mini 10v, so it seems pretty hw unspecific. I just get a black screen when lightdm starts. When I sudo stop lightdm and kill the X process, and "sudo start lightdm" it still does not work, so it's not a startup race.

When I do "startx" from a VT, it works fine.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

This appears to be a ubiquity problem. It's crashing in ubiquity-dm due to gir problems. ubiquity-dm is trying to call GdkPixbuf.render_pixmap_and_mask but it isn't being found.

The X log error message doesn't seem to be relevant, as when I commented out the crashy bits in ubiquty-dm, X came up (and then metacity crashed, leading ubiquity to gracefully give up and autologin to a desktop).

This is bug 830061. I'll mark as a dup.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

I'm reopening and removing the duplicate. I still experience the problem on an eeepc 1015PE.

Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Only 1 system shows this problem. I tried on another one which had the same issue and it boots fine with the same USB stick.

affects: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric) → ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: Critical → High
summary: lightdm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm
- interface version (plymouth race ?)
+ interface versio
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer)
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

rebooted, same HW (eeepc), same key, and this time no problem. It seems to produce randomly.

summary: - lightdm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm
- interface versio
+ ubiquity-dm fails to start on Live CD on intel: [drm] failed to set drm
+ interface version
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

I've been able to reproduce only once over 5 tries and only on 1 system. Maybe bad luck.

lowering importance and will close if I can't find a pattern to reproduce or duplicates.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
importance: High → Medium
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Hansen (moteprime) wrote :

Hi. I have been testing 20110901 Beta 1 oneiric-desktop-i386.iso on Asus eee pc 1005P. (Atom N450)
I am not sure i have the same problem, i cannot locate the mentioned logs. -please advice.

When i boot live image from USB stick it gets stuck on the "Welcome" screen which is blank. Nothing shows in the window.
If i left shift boot and choose "try ubuntu" is boots into desktop.

The bug is consistent over two daily images and two usb sticks.

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
tags: added: testcase
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Matt (mattredmond1) wrote :

I can also confirm this behaviour on the ASUS EB1501P (ION2, atom D525)

Plymouth fails at boot with "plymouthd: ./plugin.c:540: map_to_device: Assertion `head->size > 0' failed."

I can start X by dropping to a VT and running sudo startx

If I can provide anything that will help, please let me know.

Matt

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This version has expired

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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