Testing request: AMD chipset kernel issue

[Adam Williamson]

Hi folks!

There is a bug nominated as a Fedora 25 Alpha blocker:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367321

on affected systems, it prevents boot entirely, which is obviously
pretty bad. But we're not sure yet how many systems would be affected
by the bug. So we're looking for more feedback.

If you have a system with an AMD processor which you are OK with doing
an install to, can you please download any recent Fedora 25 image -
e.g.

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-25-20160816.n.0/c...

, or any other live or installer image from that tree - boot, run an
installation, and see if you hit the bug? The symptom is that the
system reboots or possibly just dies almost as soon as the kernel is
selected from the boot menu. If you see some other problem, please go
ahead and file a bug on it, but it's not this problem.

If you do see this problem, please add a comment to the bug with some
details on your system. If you do test, whether you hit the bug or not,
please reply to this mail and mention some details of your hardware and
whether or not you hit the bug.

Thanks a lot folks! :)

[Fernando Cassia]

On 8/18/16, Adam Williamson  wrote:
> There is a bug nominated as a Fedora 25 Alpha blocker:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367321
>
> on affected systems, it prevents boot entirely, which is obviously
> pretty bad. But we're not sure yet how many systems would be affected
> by the bug. So we're looking for more feedback.
>
> If you have a system with an AMD processor which you are OK with doing
> an install to, can you please download any recent Fedora 25 image -
> e.g.
>
> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-25-20160816.n.0/c...

It's depressing to hear that devs are using Intel-only systems and not
a single AMD one.
Really.

I thought Linux supporters were among the most conscious wrt diversity
and competition ...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/12/ftc-challenges-intels...

(btw: AMD E2 APU here, also an old Opteron, but both systems have
their own OSs and I'm not sure I have space or extra HDDs to attempt a
fresh install ATM. I will however attempt to test, is it required to
install? or just booting from LiveCD would trigger it?)

FC

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 17:13 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On 8/18/16, Adam Williamson  wrote:
> > There is a bug nominated as a Fedora 25 Alpha blocker:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367321
> >
> > on affected systems, it prevents boot entirely, which is obviously
> > pretty bad. But we're not sure yet how many systems would be affected
> > by the bug. So we're looking for more feedback.
> >
> > If you have a system with an AMD processor which you are OK with doing
> > an install to, can you please download any recent Fedora 25 image -
> > e.g.
> >
> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/Fedora-25-20160816.n.0/c...
>
> It's depressing to hear that devs are using Intel-only systems and not
> a single AMD one.
> Really.

I suppose it would be, but I didn't say that, so I'm confused as to
where you think you're hearing it.
> I thought Linux supporters were among the most conscious wrt diversity
> and competition ...
>
> https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2009/12/ftc-challenges-intels...
>
> (btw: AMD E2 APU here, also an old Opteron, but both systems have
> their own OSs and I'm not sure I have space or extra HDDs to attempt a
> fresh install ATM. I will however attempt to test, is it required to
> install? or just booting from LiveCD would trigger it?)

The reporter says that just booting the live CD doesn't trigger the
bug, it only happens on boot of the installed system.

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

Test done on a
AMD powered laptop: ASUS X550ZE, AMD A10 7400P with Dual Radeon.
The system successfully booted to GNOME Wayland Session

Desktop system
Identical motherboard from the bug reporter with AMD Phenom II X4 940 and Nvidia GTX460 v2 Fermi,
Fedora successfully booted to  GNOME Wayland Session.

Common occurrence is SELinux permission related to some systemd components during the boot.

Luya

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 21:37 +0000, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
> Test done on a
> AMD powered laptop: ASUS X550ZE, AMD A10 7400P with Dual Radeon.
> The system successfully booted to GNOME Wayland Session
>
> Desktop system
> Identical motherboard from the bug reporter with AMD Phenom II X4 940 and Nvidia GTX460 v2 Fermi,
> Fedora successfully booted to  GNOME Wayland Session.
>
> Common occurrence is SELinux permission related to some systemd components during the boot.

Thanks a lot for testing! Please report the selinux alerts if they're
not already reported :)

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

On 18/08/16 02:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 21:37 +0000, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
> > Test done on a
> > AMD powered laptop: ASUS X550ZE, AMD A10 7400P with Dual Radeon.
> > The system successfully booted to GNOME Wayland Session
> >
> > Desktop system
> > Identical motherboard from the bug reporter with AMD Phenom II X4 940 and Nvidia GTX460 v2 Fermi,
> > Fedora successfully booted to  GNOME Wayland Session.
> >
> > Common occurrence is SELinux permission related to some systemd components during the boot.
>
> Thanks a lot for testing! Please report the selinux alerts if they're
> not already reported :)
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Done =)
Some of them are already reported.