[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-22 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Perhaps 4.5 being fixed is a false positive here, given a crash happened with it. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-22 Thread Vegard Vesterheim
Alas, the new kernel (linux-image-4.5.0-040500-generic) exhibits another even more catastrophic behaviour! Now the kernel crashes completely, the screen is black and now the host appears to be completely dead (no ping response, no keyboard response). Upon restart the only indication I can find is

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-19 Thread Vegard Vesterheim
Installed the latest kernel package as requested. (linux- image-4.5.0-040500-generic) An upgrade to kernel 4.5 seems to have fixed the problem. Adding tags as requested. ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream kernel-fixed-upstream-4.5 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Conf

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-19 Thread Vegard Vesterheim
Given the nature of this bug (sporadic, not easily reproducible), identifying the bad commit by booting intermediate kernel commit revisions could possibly be *very* time-consuming. This problem affects my main desktop at work. I am not sure that I can invest that much time to help identify this pr

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-19 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Vegard Vesterheim, the next step is to fully reverse commit bisect from kernel 4.4 to 4.5 in order to identify the last bad commit, followed immediately by the first good one. Once this good commit has been identified, it may be reviewed for backporting. Could you please do this following https://w

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-15 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Vegard Vesterheim, in order to allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue, at your earliest convenience, could you please test the latest upstream kernel available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=N;O=D ? Please keep in mind the following: 1) The one to test

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-15 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
** Tags removed: bios-outdated-2.65 ** Tags added: latest-bios-2.65 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556965 Title: Xorg freeze To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bu

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-15 Thread Vegard Vesterheim
# sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date L01 v02.65 07/13/2015 The same problem occurred after BIOS upgrade. The monitors appear to be in Energy Saving mode. The Xorg server has crashed. No response from keyboard input. Dmesg output with similar content as attached p

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-14 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Vegard Vesterheim, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/readIndex?sp4ts.oid=5387484&swLangOid=8&swEnvOid=4192 an update to your computer's buggy, insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (2.65). If you update to this followin

[Bug 1556965] Re: Xorg freeze

2016-03-14 Thread Vegard Vesterheim
** Attachment added: "dmesg at the time of the freeze" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1556965/+attachment/4598770/+files/dmesg.xorg.freeze -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad