Corrupted Console Text

scolby33 · 2018-02-06 08:09:44

Hello,

I have just installed a mostly-vanilla Arch Linux 32 system on my old Dell Mini 9. The installation media boots fine, but after rebooting into the new system, I get a console like below. The screen is fine through "Loading initial ramdisk..." and "starting version 236". I am then asked for the password to unlock the LUKS root disk. I see the fsck information for the partition and then a couple more lines appear normally, but almost immediately the screen is filled with the "torn" text.

I am able to blindly log in and stored "dmesg > dmesg.log" which I then looked through from the installation media. There are a few warnings that appear here which are absent from the installation media's dmesg log:

[   19.265706] pci 0000:00:00.0: Intel 945GME Chipset
[   19.265795] pci 0000:00:00.0: detected gtt size: 262144K total, 262144K mappable
[   19.265896] pci 0000:00:00.0: detected 8192K stolen memory
[   19.265994] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 256M
[   19.266005] checking generic (d0000000 1e0000) vs hw (d0000000 10000000)
[   19.266009] fb: switching to inteldrmfb from VESA VGA
[   19.266091] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
[   19.271537] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[   19.271607] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[   19.271611] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[   19.271639] resource sanity check: requesting [mem 0x000c0000-0x000dffff], which spans more than PCI Bus 0000:00 [mem 0x000d0000-0x000d3fff window]
[   19.271651] caller pci_map_rom+0x48/0xc0 mapping multiple BARs
[   19.274729] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
[   19.313620] plane B assertion failure, should be off on pipe B but is still active
[   19.313672] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   19.313837] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 299 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1295 assert_planes_disabled+0x140/0x150 [i915]
[   19.313841] Modules linked in: mac80211 i915(+) cfg80211 i2c_algo_bit iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support drm_kms_helper dell_laptop dell_smbios compal_laptop rfkill psmouse drm dcdbas evdev snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic coretemp input_leds mac_hid snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec ssb pcspkr lpc_ich pcmcia i2c_i801 r8169 rng_core snd_hda_core mii pcmcia_core jmb38x_ms memstick snd_hwdep battery snd_pcm intel_agp snd_timer snd ac intel_gtt syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt agpgart video shpchp fb_sys_fops soundcore thermal acpi_cpufreq button sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 fscrypto crypto_simd cryptd aes_i586 xts algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod ata_generic pata_acpi serio_raw atkbd libps2 ata_piix uhci_hcd libata scsi_mod ehci_pci ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common
[   19.314017]  sdhci_pci sdhci led_class mmc_core i8042 serio
[   19.314040] CPU: 1 PID: 299 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.14.15-1.0-ARCH #1
[   19.314063] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910/CN0J14, BIOS A05 03/05/2009
[   19.314081] task: f6821d40 task.stack: f6ad8000
[   19.314242] EIP: assert_planes_disabled+0x140/0x150 [i915]
[   19.314246] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
[   19.314252] EAX: 00000046 EBX: f3d20000 ECX: f77f0900 EDX: f77ebd34
[   19.314256] ESI: 00000001 EDI: f92e6810 EBP: f6ad9bbc ESP: f6ad9b9c
[   19.314261]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[   19.314267] CR0: 80050033 CR2: b65e9da0 CR3: 3698f000 CR4: 000006d0
[   19.314271] Call Trace:
[   19.314430]  intel_disable_pipe+0x45/0x190 [i915]
[   19.314589]  i9xx_crtc_disable+0x6c/0x3e0 [i915]
[   19.314636]  ? drm_atomic_add_affected_connectors+0xe8/0x100 [drm]
[   19.314795]  intel_crtc_disable_noatomic+0x83/0x290 [i915]
[   19.314948]  ? gen2_write32+0x130/0x130 [i915]
[   19.315101]  ? intel_modeset_setup_hw_state+0xaae/0xcd0 [i915]
[   19.315263]  intel_modeset_setup_hw_state+0xadb/0xcd0 [i915]
[   19.315423]  intel_modeset_init+0x6df/0x1890 [i915]
[   19.315447]  ? __process_new_driver+0x40/0x40
[   19.315600]  ? intel_setup_gmbus+0x1e8/0x280 [i915]
[   19.315740]  i915_driver_load+0xa2c/0x13e0 [i915]
[   19.315760]  ? acpi_dev_found+0x6c/0x80
[   19.315893]  ? i915_pci_remove+0x20/0x20 [i915]
[   19.316026]  i915_pci_probe+0x3a/0x70 [i915]
[   19.316046]  pci_device_probe+0xc7/0x160
[   19.316066]  driver_probe_device+0x2cc/0x430
[   19.316084]  __driver_attach+0x99/0xe0
[   19.316102]  ? driver_probe_device+0x430/0x430
[   19.316119]  bus_for_each_dev+0x5a/0xa0
[   19.316137]  driver_attach+0x19/0x20
[   19.316153]  ? driver_probe_device+0x430/0x430
[   19.316170]  bus_add_driver+0x187/0x230
[   19.316185]  ? 0xf93b5000
[   19.316201]  driver_register+0x56/0xd0
[   19.316216]  ? 0xf93b5000
[   19.316232]  __pci_register_driver+0x3a/0x40
[   19.316374]  i915_init+0x4c/0x51 [i915]
[   19.316392]  do_one_initcall+0x49/0x170
[   19.316411]  ? kfree+0x167/0x180
[   19.316426]  ? kfree+0x167/0x180
[   19.316445]  ? do_init_module+0x21/0x1d4
[   19.316461]  ? do_init_module+0x21/0x1d4
[   19.316478]  do_init_module+0x50/0x1d4
[   19.316496]  load_module+0x224c/0x2900
[   19.316517]  ? irq_exit+0x5d/0xb0
[   19.316539]  SyS_init_module+0x125/0x160
[   19.316596]  ? ieee80211_if_read_num_mcast_sta+0x1d/0x20 [mac80211]
[   19.316621]  do_fast_syscall_32+0x76/0x1d0
[   19.316641]  entry_SYSENTER_32+0x4e/0x7c
[   19.316655] EIP: 0xb7f9ecd9
[   19.316659] EFLAGS: 00000282 CPU: 1
[   19.316663] EAX: ffffffda EBX: b5fde010 ECX: 00197774 EDX: b7b605d5
[   19.316668] ESI: b7b570aa EDI: b7b55a87 EBP: 00e34f90 ESP: bff515c0
[   19.316673]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 007b
[   19.316680] Code: ff 83 c4 10 e9 31 ff ff ff 57 68 2c 28 38 f9 e8 54 18 dc ce 0f ff 58 5a e9 1d ff ff ff ff 75 ec 50 68 64 28 38 f9 e8 3d 18 dc ce <0f> ff 83 c4 0c e9 36 ff ff ff 8d b6 00 00 00 00 3e 8d 74 26 00
[   19.316711] ---[ end trace e5d1f6f909e2c654 ]---
[   19.432751] [drm] RC6 disabled, disabling runtime PM support
[   19.432832] [drm] initialized overlay support
[   19.440749] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20170818 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[   19.483007] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[   19.483985] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   19.484015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c:915 drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state+0x1c0/0x1d0 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.484017] Modules linked in: bcma mac80211 i915 cfg80211 i2c_algo_bit iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support drm_kms_helper dell_laptop dell_smbios compal_laptop rfkill psmouse drm dcdbas evdev snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic coretemp input_leds mac_hid snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec ssb pcspkr lpc_ich pcmcia i2c_i801 r8169 rng_core snd_hda_core mii pcmcia_core jmb38x_ms memstick snd_hwdep battery snd_pcm intel_agp snd_timer snd ac intel_gtt syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt agpgart video shpchp fb_sys_fops soundcore thermal acpi_cpufreq button sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 fscrypto crypto_simd cryptd aes_i586 xts algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod ata_generic pata_acpi serio_raw atkbd libps2 ata_piix uhci_hcd libata scsi_mod ehci_pci ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common
[   19.484151]  sdhci_pci sdhci led_class mmc_core i8042 serio
[   19.484169] CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G        W       4.14.15-1.0-ARCH #1
[   19.484172] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910/CN0J14, BIOS A05 03/05/2009
[   19.484184] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[   19.484190] task: f70ea700 task.stack: f70fc000
[   19.484208] EIP: drm_atomic_helper_update_legacy_modeset_state+0x1c0/0x1d0 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.484211] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[   19.484215] EAX: f6df6900 EBX: f3c19000 ECX: f3d24800 EDX: 00000000
[   19.484219] ESI: f43ed900 EDI: f43723c0 EBP: f70fdbc8 ESP: f70fdbb0
[   19.484224]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[   19.484228] CR0: 80050033 CR2: f9800000 CR3: 36d40000 CR4: 000006d0
[   19.484232] Call Trace:
[   19.484391]  intel_atomic_commit_tail+0x9ca/0xe60 [i915]
[   19.484528]  ? intel_runtime_pm_put+0x47/0x90 [i915]
[   19.484541]  ? wait_woken+0x70/0x70
[   19.484549]  ? wait_woken+0x70/0x70
[   19.484690]  ? intel_atomic_commit_ready+0x44/0x58 [i915]
[   19.484836]  intel_atomic_commit+0x190/0x200 [i915]
[   19.484981]  ? intel_atomic_commit+0x190/0x200 [i915]
[   19.485124]  ? intel_atomic_commit_tail+0xe60/0xe60 [i915]
[   19.485156]  drm_atomic_commit+0x3f/0x50 [drm]
[   19.485177]  restore_fbdev_mode_atomic+0x163/0x1c0 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485198]  restore_fbdev_mode+0x2c/0x150 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485207]  ? dmi_matches+0x54/0xf0
[   19.485225]  drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked.part.31+0x21/0x70 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485243]  drm_fb_helper_set_par+0x45/0x80 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485386]  intel_fbdev_set_par+0x15/0x60 [i915]
[   19.485396]  fbcon_init+0x44e/0x600
[   19.485407]  visual_init+0xc0/0x120
[   19.485415]  do_bind_con_driver+0x178/0x340
[   19.485423]  ? device_create_groups_vargs+0x91/0xd0
[   19.485431]  do_take_over_console+0x72/0x180
[   19.485440]  do_fbcon_takeover+0x5d/0xd0
[   19.485448]  fbcon_event_notify+0x587/0x760
[   19.485456]  ? set_con2fb_map+0x350/0x350
[   19.485464]  notifier_call_chain+0x51/0x80
[   19.485472]  blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3b/0x50
[   19.485479]  fb_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
[   19.485485]  register_framebuffer+0x21c/0x350
[   19.485508]  __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x1ff/0x420 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485656]  ? intel_fbdev_unregister+0x70/0x70 [i915]
[   19.485675]  drm_fb_helper_initial_config+0x35/0x40 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.485818]  intel_fbdev_initial_config+0x16/0x30 [i915]
[   19.485827]  async_run_entry_fn+0x3a/0x150
[   19.485835]  ? __schedule+0x2a2/0x910
[   19.485844]  process_one_work+0x19e/0x3b0
[   19.485853]  worker_thread+0x37/0x400
[   19.485860]  kthread+0xf6/0x110
[   19.485867]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   19.485873]  ? kthread_create_on_node+0x20/0x20
[   19.485880]  ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x38
[   19.485887] Code: 8b f0 01 00 00 0f b7 40 26 89 83 f4 01 00 00 eb ca 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 0f ff e9 30 ff ff ff 89 f6 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 <0f> ff e9 ae fe ff ff 89 f6 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 3e 8d 74 26 00
[   19.485986] ---[ end trace e5d1f6f909e2c655 ]---
[   19.486735] plane B assertion failure, should be off on pipe B but is still active
[   19.486772] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   19.486930] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1295 assert_planes_disabled+0x140/0x150 [i915]
[   19.486934] Modules linked in: bcma mac80211 i915 cfg80211 i2c_algo_bit iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support drm_kms_helper dell_laptop dell_smbios compal_laptop rfkill psmouse drm dcdbas evdev snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic coretemp input_leds mac_hid snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec ssb pcspkr lpc_ich pcmcia i2c_i801 r8169 rng_core snd_hda_core mii pcmcia_core jmb38x_ms memstick snd_hwdep battery snd_pcm intel_agp snd_timer snd ac intel_gtt syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt agpgart video shpchp fb_sys_fops soundcore thermal acpi_cpufreq button sch_fq_codel ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 fscrypto crypto_simd cryptd aes_i586 xts algif_skcipher af_alg dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod ata_generic pata_acpi serio_raw atkbd libps2 ata_piix uhci_hcd libata scsi_mod ehci_pci ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common
[   19.487069]  sdhci_pci sdhci led_class mmc_core i8042 serio
[   19.487088] CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G        W       4.14.15-1.0-ARCH #1
[   19.487091] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910/CN0J14, BIOS A05 03/05/2009
[   19.487103] Workqueue: events_unbound async_run_entry_fn
[   19.487109] task: f70ea700 task.stack: f70fc000
[   19.487260] EIP: assert_planes_disabled+0x140/0x150 [i915]
[   19.487264] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[   19.487268] EAX: 00000046 EBX: f3d20000 ECX: 00000002 EDX: 00000002
[   19.487273] ESI: 00000001 EDI: f92e6810 EBP: f70fdaf4 ESP: f70fdad4
[   19.487277]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
[   19.487281] CR0: 80050033 CR2: f9800000 CR3: 36d40000 CR4: 000006d0
[   19.487285] Call Trace:
[   19.487436]  intel_enable_pipe+0x45/0x220 [i915]
[   19.487581]  i9xx_crtc_enable+0x366/0x450 [i915]
[   19.487615]  ? drm_calc_timestamping_constants+0x11e/0x170 [drm]
[   19.487762]  intel_update_crtc+0x3a/0xc0 [i915]
[   19.487908]  intel_update_crtcs+0x50/0x70 [i915]
[   19.488054]  intel_atomic_commit_tail+0x2a4/0xe60 [i915]
[   19.488189]  ? intel_runtime_pm_put+0x47/0x90 [i915]
[   19.488202]  ? wait_woken+0x70/0x70
[   19.488210]  ? wait_woken+0x70/0x70
[   19.488353]  ? intel_atomic_commit_ready+0x44/0x58 [i915]
[   19.488501]  intel_atomic_commit+0x190/0x200 [i915]
[   19.488645]  ? intel_atomic_commit+0x190/0x200 [i915]
[   19.488789]  ? intel_atomic_commit_tail+0xe60/0xe60 [i915]
[   19.488821]  drm_atomic_commit+0x3f/0x50 [drm]
[   19.488842]  restore_fbdev_mode_atomic+0x163/0x1c0 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.488863]  restore_fbdev_mode+0x2c/0x150 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.488872]  ? dmi_matches+0x54/0xf0
[   19.488890]  drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked.part.31+0x21/0x70 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.488907]  drm_fb_helper_set_par+0x45/0x80 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.489050]  intel_fbdev_set_par+0x15/0x60 [i915]
[   19.489060]  fbcon_init+0x44e/0x600
[   19.489071]  visual_init+0xc0/0x120
[   19.489079]  do_bind_con_driver+0x178/0x340
[   19.489086]  ? device_create_groups_vargs+0x91/0xd0
[   19.489095]  do_take_over_console+0x72/0x180
[   19.489103]  do_fbcon_takeover+0x5d/0xd0
[   19.489111]  fbcon_event_notify+0x587/0x760
[   19.489118]  ? set_con2fb_map+0x350/0x350
[   19.489126]  notifier_call_chain+0x51/0x80
[   19.489135]  blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3b/0x50
[   19.489143]  fb_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
[   19.489149]  register_framebuffer+0x21c/0x350
[   19.489173]  __drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0x1ff/0x420 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.489321]  ? intel_fbdev_unregister+0x70/0x70 [i915]
[   19.489339]  drm_fb_helper_initial_config+0x35/0x40 [drm_kms_helper]
[   19.489481]  intel_fbdev_initial_config+0x16/0x30 [i915]
[   19.489490]  async_run_entry_fn+0x3a/0x150
[   19.489498]  ? __schedule+0x2a2/0x910
[   19.489507]  process_one_work+0x19e/0x3b0
[   19.489516]  worker_thread+0x37/0x400
[   19.489523]  kthread+0xf6/0x110
[   19.489529]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   19.489535]  ? kthread_create_on_node+0x20/0x20
[   19.489542]  ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x38
[   19.489549] Code: ff 83 c4 10 e9 31 ff ff ff 57 68 2c 28 38 f9 e8 54 18 dc ce 0f ff 58 5a e9 1d ff ff ff ff 75 ec 50 68 64 28 38 f9 e8 3d 18 dc ce <0f> ff 83 c4 0c e9 36 ff ff ff 8d b6 00 00 00 00 3e 8d 74 26 00
[   19.489649] ---[ end trace e5d1f6f909e2c656 ]---
[   19.506555] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x37

"clear" and "reset" didn't help anything.

This is a difficult issue to search for--does anyone have any ideas on what's going on?

eugen-b · 2018-02-06 09:59:43

Check this topic https://bbs.archlinux32.org/viewtopic.php?id=170

scolby33 · 2018-02-06 11:40:39

This solved the problem! I commented out the following line

/etc/default/grub wrote:

#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

and then recreated the GRUB config.

Thanks!

WyRe · 2018-03-06 14:21:47

This post should be pinned, at least until the issue be solved; I think.

Thank you.

Arch Linux

#1 2018-02-06 08:09:44

Corrupted Console Text

#2 2018-02-06 09:59:43

Re: Corrupted Console Text

#3 2018-02-06 11:40:39

Re: Corrupted Console Text

#4 2018-03-06 14:21:47

Re: Corrupted Console Text

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