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Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange/corrupt screen in kernels 4.8-4.11 (but works with 4.4.0)

Bug #1613158 reported by Daniel van Vugt
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Bug Description

Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernels 4.7 and 4.8rc1 (but works with 4.4.0).

I've tried:
  * Plain yakkety 4.4.0-34-generic
  * Mainline kernel 4.7
  * Mainline kernel 4.8rc1
and only the first one works. Kernels 4.7 and 4.8rc1 freeze with a bright orange screen.

Best I can tell, the frozen orange screen coincides with kernel log messages:

Aug 15 12:24:23 x51 kernel: [ 1.761197] fb: switching to nouveaufb from simple
Aug 15 12:24:23 x51 kernel: [ 1.761210] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
...
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.896160] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.897225] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.898292] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.899358] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.900423] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.901489] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.902555] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.903621] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.904686] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.905753] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.906818] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.907883] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.908949] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.910014] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.911079] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.912145] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
Aug 15 12:24:26 x51 kernel: [ 11.913210] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []
...
...

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
affects: ubuntu → linux (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Kernel log from 4.7.0 trying to boot

description: updated
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Brad Figg (brad-figg) wrote : Missing required logs.

This bug is missing log files that will aid in diagnosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 1613158

and then change the status of the bug to 'Confirmed'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
description: updated
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
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Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) wrote : Re: Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernels 4.7 and 4.8rc1 (but works with 4.4.0)

Can you see if this issue is now also happening on the latest Yakkety -proposed kernel, which is now based on the 4.6 kernel. If it does, we can perform a kernel bisect to find the commit that introduced this regression.
https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/bootstrap/+build/10600030

Also 4.8-rc2 is now available, it might be worthwhile testing it as well:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8-rc2/

tags: added: kernel-da-ley
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Confirmed 4.6.0-10-generic_4.6.0-10.12 can boot without hitting the orange screen.

Instead however, it boots seemingly without proper kernel mode setting. I see unity-greeter in low resolution and then the whole system is frozen.

Anyway, suffice to say there the orange screen issue doesn't seem to be finding its way into Ubuntu distro. So the bug is invalid for Ubuntu right now.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Ivan Larionov (xeron-oskom) wrote :

I tried to purge nvidia proprietary drivers and boot with nouveau and got exactly the same issue. The only difference is my screen is just black.

Same errors in dmesg:
fifo: SCHED_ERROR 08 []

I use Nvidia GTX 970.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Sadly Ubuntu 16.10 final does have this bug. Boot the ISO on a GTX 970 system and you just get an orange screen.

To work around the problem I have to add kernel parameter: nomodeset

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → New
status: New → Confirmed
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
summary: - Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernels 4.7
- and 4.8rc1 (but works with 4.4.0)
+ Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernel 4.8
+ (but works with 4.4.0)
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capaj (capajj) wrote : Re: Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernel 4.8 (but works with 4.4.0)

I've got the same bug with Ubuntu 17.04 beta2 with kernel 4.10

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Not even an orange screen now. Using a recent 17.04 daily image I just see (unchanging) corruption on GTX 970 (Maxwell). That's surprising given Pascal GPUs like GTX 1060 do now work with 17.04.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
summary: - Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange screen in kernel 4.8
- (but works with 4.4.0)
+ Booting with Nvidia GTX 970 hangs with an orange/corrupt screen in
+ kernels 4.8-4.11 (but works with 4.4.0)
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Víctor Adrián de la Cruz Serrano (adriandcs) wrote :

This is happening to me too on released 17.04 64bit. Also with a GTX 970.

16.04 worked just fine.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
tags: added: nouveau
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I don't have this card anymore and these are unsupported Ubuntu releases now.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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