[Bug 820723] [NEW] Installer creates no BIOS boot partition on UEFI system, system becomes unbootable after automatic update
Public bug reported: A clean install of Natty on a UEFI (ASUS P8P67) system gives me this layout: $ sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Corsair CSSD-F12 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 120GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 20.0MB 20.0MB fat16 boot 2 20.0MB 111GB 111GB ext4 3 111GB 120GB 8569MB linux-swap(v1) The installation is successful and the system boots fine. But subsequently, the automatic update replaces grub-efi with grub-pc and the system becomes unbootable (grub-install complains: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!) I tried reinstalling the system from scratch and got exactly the same problem again. I also tried upgrading the broken system from LiveUSB instead of reinstalling it from scratch, but that didn't help. Eventually I fixed the problem by manually reinstalling grub-efi instead of grub-pc. In Question #166162, I was advised that the installer should have created a bios_grub partition, hence this bug. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: ubiquity (not installed) Uname: Linux 3.0.0-0300-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Aug 3 22:20:40 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-14 (21 days ago) ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/820723 Title: Installer creates no BIOS boot partition on UEFI system, system becomes unbootable after automatic update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/820723/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 820723] Re: Installer creates no BIOS boot partition on UEFI system, system becomes unbootable after automatic update
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[Bug 814412] Re: Grub update renders system unbootable
I now understand what happened. The installer creates (by default) an EFI install, with grub-efi-amd64. The automatic update replaces grub-efi with grub-pc, and the latter doesn't work. I manually reinstalled grub-efi and everything works now. But something is clearly wrong: an automatic update shouldn't be breaking a clean install. So, what went wrong here? Is it a bug in the installer? in grub? in apt? Should I have done anything differently during installation? ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid ** Converted to question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/166162 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814412 Title: Grub update renders system unbootable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/814412/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 814412] Re: Grub update renders system unbootable
This is also in the attached file, but to make it more obvious, here is the partition table created by the installer: $ sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA Corsair CSSD-F12 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 120GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End SizeFile system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 20.0MB 20.0MB fat16 boot 2 20.0MB 111GB 111GB ext4 3 111GB 120GB 8569MB linux-swap(v1) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814412 Title: Grub update renders system unbootable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/814412/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 814412] [NEW] Grub update renders system unbootable
Public bug reported: Did a clean install of Natty on a new 120G SSD. No dual boot, no custom partitions -- I let the installer partition it as it wants. The system installed and worked fine until the last grub update, at which point it became unbootable (invalid arch independent ELF magic + rescue shell). grub-install complains, This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible! After unsuccessfully trying to fix the bootloader, I reinstalled the OS from scratch, again with no custom partitions. Again, the freshly installed system boots fine, but after the first automatic upgrade becomes unbootable. Attaching the output of boot_info_script.sh. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: grub-pc 1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jul 21 22:26:56 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: grub2 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-07-14 (8 days ago) ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug natty running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814412 Title: Grub update renders system unbootable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/814412/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 814412] Re: Grub update renders system unbootable
** Attachment added: Output of boot_info_script.sh https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814412/+attachment/2224854/+files/boot_info.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/814412 Title: Grub update renders system unbootable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/814412/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: [RV370] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
I haven't been able to reproduce the bug since replacing my graphics card with a different model. It seems likely that the root cause was hardware degradation, although I can't tell with certainty. -- [RV370] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: [RV380] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
No improvement. X freezes within a minute of login, and I couldn't even get it to work long enough to take a screenshot for bug 391439 until I used command line instead of the desktop menu. Attaching Xorg.0.log and dmesg output. ** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30983924/Xorg.0.log -- [RV380] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: [RV380] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
** Attachment added: dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30983964/dmesg -- [RV380] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] Re: X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
Worse than before. Screen corruption starts happening immediately on login (in fact, even before -- on the login screen). What's more: in Jaunty, corruption was extremely rare with DRI turned off (I've seen it once in 1-2 months of use). Now even with DRI off, I see screen corruption after several minutes of use. Attaching screenshot, Xorg.0.log and dmesg output. Bryce, any idea what it would take for this to get fixed? Having to turn DRI off is bad enough (desktop becomes infuriatingly slow), and now even that doesn't help. ** Attachment added: Screenshot.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30984217/Screenshot.png -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] Re: X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
** Attachment added: Xorg.0.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30984228/Xorg.0.log -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] Re: X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
** Attachment added: dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30984231/dmesg -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] [NEW] X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati See attached screenshot. Dots and lines start appearing right after X starts. After a while (usually a day or two), entire areas of the screen start filling up with flickering lines. Note that my xorg.conf has XAA enabled because EXA causes X to lock up (bug #345224), but I've tried switching back to EXA and saw the same artifacts in the short time before X froze. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-13-generic (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic x86_64 ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] Re: X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269529/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: LsHal.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269530/LsHal.txt ** Attachment added: LsMod.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269531/LsMod.txt ** Attachment added: LsPci.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269532/LsPci.txt ** Attachment added: XorgConf.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269533/XorgConf.txt ** Attachment added: XorgLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269534/XorgLog.txt ** Attachment added: XorgLogOld.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269535/XorgLogOld.txt ** Attachment added: Xrandr.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269536/Xrandr.txt ** Attachment added: glxinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269537/glxinfo.txt ** Attachment added: monitors.xml.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269538/monitors.xml.txt ** Attachment added: setxkbmap.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269539/setxkbmap.txt ** Attachment added: system.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269540/system.txt ** Attachment added: xdpyinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269541/xdpyinfo.txt ** Attachment added: xkbcomp.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269542/xkbcomp.txt -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 391439] Re: X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen
** Attachment added: Screenshot.png http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28269561/Screenshot.png -- X displays various artifacts, white lines all over the screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391439 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
In my case it was happening in Intrepid, too. The difference is that in Intrepid, X would almost always lock up without increased CPU consumption, while in Jaunty it almost always locks up with 100+% CPU usage. -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462157 seems to be the same bug in Fedora. From the comments I gather that the jury is still out on whether it's an Xorg bug or a kernel bug. It also seems like it's currently closed, but never got fixed, which isn't encouraging. -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
X indeed freezes: no window updates, no response to mouse events (except that the cursor moves), no response to keyboard events (Caps Lock doesn't work, either). I got the backtrace by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing, i.e., logged in remotely, ran gdb and attached to the Xorg process (which was consuming 100% CPU). Btw forgot to attach .xsession-errors, doing that now. Since reporting the bug, I've had this happen twice more. Both times, gdb showed Xorg to be stuck in exactly the same place. Attaching those (virtually identical) backtraces. ** Attachment added: xsession-errors http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24148343/xsession-errors -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
** Attachment added: gdb-Xorg-2.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24148351/gdb-Xorg-2.txt -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
** Attachment added: gdb-Xorg-1.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24148348/gdb-Xorg-1.txt -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
It just happened again; this time I turned on DRM debugging and let it run for a couple of minutes. syslog attached. ** Attachment added: syslog http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24150518/syslog -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] [NEW] Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati X started freezing once in a while after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10. Now with 9.04 it's even more common. Mouse pointer works, keyboard doesn't work, can ssh remotely. Attaching backtrace. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.0-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (bui...@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #35-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 18 21:55:34 UTC 2009 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64 ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
** Attachment added: Xorg backtrace http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092395/gdb-Xorg.txt -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 345224] Re: Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU)
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092339/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: LsHal.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092340/LsHal.txt ** Attachment added: LsMod.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092341/LsMod.txt ** Attachment added: LsPci.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092342/LsPci.txt ** Attachment added: XorgConf.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092343/XorgConf.txt ** Attachment added: XorgLog.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092344/XorgLog.txt ** Attachment added: XorgLogOld.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092345/XorgLogOld.txt ** Attachment added: Xrandr.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092346/Xrandr.txt ** Attachment added: glxinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092347/glxinfo.txt ** Attachment added: setxkbmap.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092348/setxkbmap.txt ** Attachment added: system.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092349/system.txt ** Attachment added: xdpyinfo.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092350/xdpyinfo.txt ** Attachment added: xkbcomp.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24092351/xkbcomp.txt -- Xorg randomly freezes (100% CPU) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345224 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
