On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 at 13:28, Jocelyn Falempe <jfale...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On 15/07/2024 18:13, Barry wrote: > > > >> On 15 Jul 2024, at 14:05, Jocelyn Falempe <jfale...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> If you want to see the kernel boot log, before userspace is started, > >> you can add "init=/does_not_exist drm.panic_screen=kmsg" to the kernel > >> command line. It will panic, and you will see all relevant logs with > >> drm_panic. > >> It's not ideal, but that should at least allows to see those logs. > > > > And if the kernel hangs without panic then we have a blank screen to stare > > at right? > > Yes, but I don't think this happens often in practice. And in this case > there is little chance the kernel logs will help you much anyway, > because when it hangs, you don't have the call trace, and the last > kernel log might be unrelated. > For this case, if you have an older kernel that boots, you can run a > bisection, and find the root cause reliably. > > > This is going to make Fedora very hard to support and push users to another > > distro without this “feature” I suspect. > > I hope most Fedora users experience a clean boot, and don't have to > change the kernel command line in grub to debug.
Most Fedora users probably do not have to do so as much as they would in the past, but I can say that many Fedora developers may have to regularly do so. Depending on the hardware, I have to do this at least once a major kernel update or updates to systemd, dracut or related packages. That said, I needed to talk my 78 year old Dad through command line grub debug issues about 3 times in the last year with needing to get to a VT in order to debug things due to various boot-time bugs that made it into Fedora after release. His laptop is a Dell Latitude so not that odd but video drivers went odd and another time dracut didn't grab a driver needed. > Also the bugs found with drm_panic will be fixed upstream, for all > distro, so the whole ecosystem will benefit from that. > > I will also check if I can patch VT_CONSOLE, so that it can be disabled > on the kernel command line, instead of compile time, to avoid this gap. > > I'm currently preparing a test kernel, so that you can test on your own, > and report if there are other corner cases to fix. > > > > > Barry > > > Best regards, > > -- > > Jocelyn > > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
