From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Subject: Re: Trying to install Guix System on a nonfree computer, the system frezees at booting, bug? Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:53:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20190724125334.00003127@interia.pl> References: <20190722052052.naghf4vabgd66hzw@pelzflorian.localdomain> <20190723123738.00003d26@interia.pl> <8736ixc8d1.fsf@elephly.net> <20190723183733.00001140@interia.pl> <20190724021117.00002079@interia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hqEu2-000304-DK for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:53:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqEu0-0005Ja-1X for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:53:45 -0400 Received: from smtpo.poczta.interia.pl ([217.74.65.239]:53158) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hqEtz-0005GK-DZ for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 06:53:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (89-64-25-42.dynamic.chello.pl [89.64.25.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by poczta.interia.pl (INTERIA.PL) with ESMTPSA for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:53:36 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20190724021117.00002079@interia.pl> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org >You could try pressing e in GRUB >and adding =E2=80=9Cmodprobe.blacklist=3Dradeon modprobe.blacklist=3Damdgp= u=E2=80=9D to >the end of the linux line. This one works, but without GUI, probably because I forgot to install any WM/DE, but something seems to be running on tty7 and tty8, so I'm assuming it's slim-service. >/var/log/messages looks normal to me. No way, even if it looks on this partition I tried only installing Guix System and it never worked. >so you waited for 90 seconds until you pressed Sysrq+E or Sysrq+I or >something at: >> Jul 24 03:30:26 localhost vmunix: [ 97.542387] sysrq: Terminate All >> Tasks Yes, the system didn't respond at all - i couldn't even switch to another tty, so Alt+SysRq+B was the only thing working, but sometimes i had to hard reset the computer, because even this didn't work. >If everything had worked, you should have seen SLIM. Everything I saw was a frozen console, even the cursor wasn't blinking. >However, since /var/log/messages looks normal, I suppose this is an >old log file (?). The partition was formatted once, but as I said before, only Guix System ran on this partition and it never worked, so that's how the log looks like, when I can't do anything. >Has booting (not necessarily installing) an official Debian USB >installer (i.e. without nonfree firmware) or another libre distro >worked previously? I tried installing Trisquel 8.0 to check if this is a bug in the linux-libre kernel, but it even stopped working during installation time. On the other hand installing Devuan works and it boots from the SSD (if Devuan's installer is the same as Debian's, then it works). But I can try installing Debian if it is necessary. >Maybe not booting in UEFI mode runs a wrong >bootloader (?). Anyway, even if UEFI mode is enabled, the system works only with the GPU disabled in grub. For me, personally this sounds like an issue with Linux and Linux-libre generally. Once about two months my system (even when using blobs) freezes just like during early boot of Guix System. Maybe everything is okay with the system, except the GPU driver - the screen freezes, but the system continues to work. It's probably a problem with Linux, because Windows 10, on the same computer, rarely crashes (by this I mean it rarely freezes in this particular way, because it crashes a lot, but with a sad smile ':(').