[Bug 553471] [NEW] Hang during boot with nouveau unless xforcevesa specified

[Chris Irwin]

Public bug reported:

Lucid fails to boot with nouveau on "nvidia 9600M GT" on MacBookPro5,3.
I am using yesterday's daily livecd.

- Removed "quiet splash" and process hangs with a message about "PRAMIN
flush timeout." CTRL+ALT+DEL does not reboot.

- Added nomodeset, system seems to finish upstart's tasks, ureadahead
outputs a message about exiting with status 4, but no VTY or X.
CTRL+ALT+DEL does not reboot.

- Added xforcevesa (and nomodeset). I now get both X and VTYs.
Everything works as expected. It would be nice if nouveau could not
support this card that it be blacklisted and fall back to vesa.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-18-generic 2.6.32-18.27
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
TestedUpstream: No
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: Cirrus Analog [Cirrus Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0:  ubuntu     2909 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xe7480000 irq 22'
   Mixer name	: 'Cirrus Logic CS4206'
   Components	: 'HDA:10134206,106b4b00,00100301'
   Controls      : 16
   Simple ctrls  : 9
Date: Thu Apr  1 18:06:47 2010
IwConfig:
 lo        no wireless extensions.
 
 eth0      no wireless extensions.
 
 pan0      no wireless extensions.
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100331.2)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,3
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz xforcevesa --  nomodeset
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
RfKill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
 	Soft blocked: no
 	Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22587C8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22587C8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647:bd06/15/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,3:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22587C8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22587C8:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,3
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid needs-upstream-testing regression-potential

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Hang during boot with nouveau unless xforcevesa specified
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553471
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