From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Cc: 39671@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39671: Something appears to disable linux kernel modules from loading.
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 22:31:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhdel0wb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a75fqyn5.fsf@dismail.de> (Joshua Branson's message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2020 18:11:26 -0500")
Hi!
Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> skribis:
> After I rebooted sway refused to start. The sway error message said
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh
> $ sway
>
> [backend/backend.c:339] Failed to open any DRM device.
> [sway/server.c] Unable to create backend.
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> So sway is not starting. I believe this is because my i915 intel
> driver is not loaded. I know this is the case, because the text on my
> virtual console is LARGE. $ sudo modprobe i915 loads the required
> driver. And I can now log into sway.
>
> However, my ethernet driver is not loaded.
On IRC, tsmish posted this bisect log:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
1 git bisect start
2 # bad: [bfb6c393b91dc4a236678a0682348d5b7bd77193] gnu: gwl: Build with Guile 3.
3 git bisect bad bfb6c393b91dc4a236678a0682348d5b7bd77193
4 # good: [d98f7fdabe27f3441f317af3e7f5a979edf5d741] remove sane-backends from wine inputs for now
5 git bisect good d98f7fdabe27f3441f317af3e7f5a979edf5d741
6 # good: [505b2631a9c35bbaa5ba6771ad4f646086f23cad] gnu: le-certs: Update input hashes.
7 git bisect good 505b2631a9c35bbaa5ba6771ad4f646086f23cad
8 # bad: [b4e0166e2d7d9d4b57e1caeb026936f957858ec9] gnu: Add rust-quasi-0.32.
9 git bisect bad b4e0166e2d7d9d4b57e1caeb026936f957858ec9
10 # bad: [d46646d9c772fb699ca24a56f815695eecdcb513] gnu: python-blinker: Use HTTPS home page.
11 git bisect bad d46646d9c772fb699ca24a56f815695eecdcb513
12 # good: [9469ab532fe561b8bb679ba8bf08f1c1f5f9374a] gnu: ddclient: Update home page.
13 git bisect good 9469ab532fe561b8bb679ba8bf08f1c1f5f9374a
14 # good: [3603f5536ee0223f2e15ca6c518ab922030646dd] gnu: wabt: Use Texinfo mark-up.
15 git bisect good 3603f5536ee0223f2e15ca6c518ab922030646dd
16 # bad: [205c1e04e04b9a9338c7219ff82bd13f000fb8c8] gnu: shepherd: Update to 0.7.0.
17 git bisect bad 205c1e04e04b9a9338c7219ff82bd13f000fb8c8
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
What does “cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe” return on the broken system?
I would expect 8b9cad01e9619f53dc5a65892ca6a09ca5de3447 to be suspect #1
because it potentially leads to ‘LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY’ being unset in
places where it used to be set before.
> Man I love guix system. It really does work smoothly, even when you
> have problems. So thanks for making a great GNU/Linux distro!
Heh. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 23:11 bug#39671: Something appears to disable linux kernel modules from loading Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-02-19 21:18 ` bug#39671: Linux-Libre 5.4.20 breaks Display Sessions Raghav Gururajan
2020-02-19 21:31 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-02-19 21:50 ` bug#39671: Something appears to disable linux kernel modules from loading Jack Hill
2020-02-19 22:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-19 22:50 ` Jack Hill
2020-02-20 10:18 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 12:12 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 19:59 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 20:34 ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-20 20:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 20:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 21:08 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2020-02-20 21:06 ` Leo Famulari
2020-02-20 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-20 23:24 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-02-20 15:55 ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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