[Bhatura V3] Booting from USB Hangs at Network Manager Service Start with Nvidia GTX 680 Card

metalllinux commented 11 months ago

Release Number:

Bhatura V3

Supporting Info:

After Booting -blendOS appears when booting from the USB, the following information is displayed:

[Firmware Bug]: TSC_DEADLINE disabled due to Errata: please update microcode to version: 0x22 (or later)
API Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.SATA0.SPT4

Then, I receive the following messages related to my GPU (this is taken from dmesg, since the message when booting from the USB, is exactly the same):

[Thu Jul 27 11:23:06 2023] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU installed in this system is
                           NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
                           NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
                           NVRM:  information.  The 535.54.03 NVIDIA driver will ignore
                           NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:06 2023] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:06 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:46 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:46 2023] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU installed in this system is
                           NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
                           NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
                           NVRM:  information.  The 535.54.03 NVIDIA driver will ignore
                           NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:46 2023] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:46 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:47 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:47 2023] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU installed in this system is
                           NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
                           NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
                           NVRM:  information.  The 535.54.03 NVIDIA driver will ignore
                           NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:47 2023] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
[Thu Jul 27 11:23:47 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:40:59 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[Thu Jul 27 11:40:59 2023] NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU installed in this system is
                           NVRM:  supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please
                           NVRM:  visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more
                           NVRM:  information.  The 535.54.03 NVIDIA driver will ignore
                           NVRM:  this GPU.  Continuing probe...
[Thu Jul 27 11:40:59 2023] NVRM: No NVIDIA GPU found.
[Thu Jul 27 11:40:59 2023] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 235

lscpu output:

Architecture:            x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:         39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                  4
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460  CPU @ 3.20GHz
    CPU family:          6
    Model:               60
    Thread(s) per core:  1
    Core(s) per socket:  4
    Socket(s):           1
    Stepping:            3
    CPU(s) scaling MHz:  60%
    CPU max MHz:         3400.0000
    CPU min MHz:         800.0000
    BogoMIPS:            6385.60
    Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology non
                         stop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm cpuid_fault epb invpcid_single
                          pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid ept_ad fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid xsaveopt dtherm ida arat pln pts
Virtualization features: 
  Virtualization:        VT-x
Caches (sum of all):     
  L1d:                   128 KiB (4 instances)
  L1i:                   128 KiB (4 instances)
  L2:                    1 MiB (4 instances)
  L3:                    6 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:                    
  NUMA node(s):          1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3
Vulnerabilities:         
  Itlb multihit:         KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
  L1tf:                  Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
  Mds:                   Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
  Meltdown:              Mitigation; PTI
  Mmio stale data:       Unknown: No mitigations
  Retbleed:              Not affected
  Spec store bypass:     Vulnerable
  Spectre v1:            Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Spectre v2:            Mitigation; Retpolines, STIBP disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected
  Srbds:                 Vulnerable: No microcode
  Tsx async abort:       Not affected

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display' output:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
        DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
        Kernel driver in use: i915
--
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GK104 [GeForce GTX 680]
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)

Issue Description:

Installer stops when starting up at the Network Manager Service

Steps to Reproduce:

Set your Nvidia GTX 680 GPU as the primary graphics card in your BIOS settings.
Boot the blendOS USB installer.
Observe that the boot sequence does not progress past the Network Manager service startup.

Expected Behaviour:

For the installer to start up, after booting from USB.

Actual Behaviour:

When booting from the USB, the Network Manager service hangs.

Troubleshooting Done:

Systematically disabled the network stack, as well as miscellaneous PCI settings on my motherboard's BIOS. These did not help and the installer still stopped at the Network Manager Service start up.
Created a separate USB image, made sure the checksum matched and still had the same issue.

Relevant Env History:

N/A

Custom Scripts:

N/A

Steps Taken to Resolve:

WORKAROUND: Set my primary GPU in the BIOS to iGPU and this then booted the USB and I could install blendOS with no issues. Of course, my Nvidia card cannot be used at that point.

Links Used:

N/A

Impact on the User:

Users with older Nvidia graphics card are not able to boot blendOS, without the above workaround.
Many thanks always for your hard work and if there is anything I can do to help test this, please let me know.

t0int1337 commented 11 months ago

The same issue is happening to me. I have Nvidia GT 740M. I can also help to test. I also can't use iGPU because I couldn't find it in BIOS settings.

metalllinux commented 9 months ago

Tried the latest 2023-07-06 ISO and still having the same issue unfortunately when the Nvidia card is set as the Primary Graphics driver. It was stuck this time when trying to boot the Hostname Service.

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