Error at boot: Thermal reporting for required devices not enabled, aborting

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Hello All,

after a routine update of my system, Suse 13.2 with kernel 3.16.7-7, I now get the following error at boot:

 Error at boot: Thermal reporting for required devices not enabled, aborting

After that the system halts, and can be booted only in recovery mode. I found a similar issue has happened on Ubuntu distro, see http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1915829.html, but it’s not clear if they found a solution.
Looks it may be linked to the nVidia driver, but I’m not sure.

Suggestions, anyone?

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More info please. What video card? What drivers for it??

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From the link you posted those errors happen when using an updated kernel with custom modules, did you install nvidia the hard way with a run file from their site?
If so you need to rebuild and reinstall the driver, rerunning the run file as root in run-level 3 should suffice.

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The video card is a nVidia GeForce GT330M (it’s a laptop)

The driver is the standard nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, I got it from the nVidia repo, no custom modules.

If it helps, these are the standard options used at boot by grub:

splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x305

Using these options causes the boot to fail with the above error, while these are the settings that I have to use to start the computer

showopts apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset

I guess is the nomodeset that makes the trick?

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nomode set will NOT start the NVIDIA driver you run with lower level drivers that may not support all video things.

You may try reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. be sure you have the correct driver ie G03 plus for the two kernel modules that is matches you installed kernel flavor. in most case it will be desktop unless you have some odd installation. There will be 5 packages.

I assume that this is NOT a Optimus based machine ie Intel+NVIDIA. If so there are issues you must deal with. be very sure that the hardware is not Optimus

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The machine is a Sony Vaio, and it actually is an nVidia+intel combination.

I spent sometimes doing some tests with the boot, and I finally discovered what’s the options that cause the error and it is:

vga=0x305

that I understand just changes the resolution of the booting page?
Removing that bit of code allows the system to boot correctly, with the nVidia drivers loaded.

Not sure what the problem really is, but at least there’s a solution!

Thanks for your support