How to solve/work around openSuSE 13.1 boot crash due to hardware?

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#1

opensuse 13.1 X86_64 (both live CD KDE version and installed version from DVD) boot process is consistently freezing using this hardware:
ASUS mobo P5KPL-AM EPU using onboard video (Intel)
2 SATA drives each 1T
4G RAM
1 PCI: KNC1 DVB card with CI extension
1 PCI: Twinhan DVB-CI

After installing openSuSE 13.1 using the DVD version, I ran into serious trouble.
Booting consistently freezes after loading the driver for the Twinhan card with the last line on screen being [no tuner found]
The computer than is unresponsive to the keyboard, only the reset button or unplugging the power-cord can reset the machine.

The same computer boots fine with openSuSE 12.3 X86_64 most recently updated kernel.
The computer will also boot without any hick-up after the Twinhan DVB-CI has being removed.

I want to use the current 12.3 installation **and **I want to test the new 13.1 openSuSE in a dual boot setup.

How can I configure the 13.1 boot process (and avoid freezing) using boot parameters and blacklist info?

Find more info attached.
Thanks for looking at this question.

Fiete

Here is what I have tried so far:

  1. boot option failsave (has lots of parameters)
  2. parameters
  • pci=noacpi
  • acpi=off
  • plymouth.enable=0
  • S
  • blacklist=bttv,dst,dvb_core,bt878…and other possibly related kernel modules, using various combinations
  1. After that I also added all dvb related modules to the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf

To get more kernel verbosity I have tried boot parameters

  • debug
  • earlyprintk
    which revealed no more essential info.

Output of lspci -vv of the opensuse 12.3 installation (filtered for the Twinhan card)

03:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB card
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
No end tag found
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: bttv

03:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB Card
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
No end tag found
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: bt878

Output (part of) dmesg of the 12.3. Looks like the 13.1 output, but 13.1 boot will be killed after ** 8.208409] bttv: 0: tuner absent**[/size]

7.851558] bttv: driver version 0.9.19 loaded
7.851562] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
8.208285] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0)
8.208327] bttv: 0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:01.0, irq: 20, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfdffe000
8.208353] bttv: 0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI subsystem ID is 1822:0001
8.208355] bttv: 0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected]
8.208409] bttv: 0: tuner absent
8.208424] bttv: 0: add subdevice "dvb0"
8.213749] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0)[/size]
#2

On 02/10/2014 02:26 PM, fiete wrote:
>
> opensuse 13.1 X86_64 (both live CD KDE version and installed version
> from DVD) boot process is consistently freezing using this hardware:
> ASUS mobo P5KPL-AM EPU using onboard video (Intel)
> 2 SATA drives each 1T
> 4G RAM
> 1 PCI: KNC1 DVB card with CI extension
> 1 PCI: Twinhan DVB-CI
>
> After installing openSuSE 13.1 using the DVD version, I ran into serious
> trouble.
> Booting consistently freezes after loading the driver for the Twinhan
> card with the last line on screen being [no tuner found]
> The computer than is unresponsive to the keyboard, only the reset button
> or unplugging the power-cord can reset the machine.
>
> The same computer boots fine with openSuSE 12.3 X86_64 most recently
> updated kernel.
> The computer will also boot without any hick-up after the Twinhan DVB-CI
> has being removed.
>
> I want to use the current 12.3 installation *and I want to test the new
> 13.1 openSuSE in a dual boot setup.
>
> How can I configure the 13.1 boot process (and avoid freezing) using
> boot parameters and blacklist info?
>
> Find more info attached.
> Thanks for looking at this question.
>
> Fiete
>
> Here is what I have tried so far:
> 1) boot option failsave (has lots of parameters)
> 2) parameters
> - pci=noacpi
> - acpi=off
> - plymouth.enable=0
> - S
> - blacklist=bttv,dst,dvb_core,bt878…and other possibly related kernel
> modules, using various combinations
> 3) After that I also added all dvb related modules to the blacklist in
> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
>
> To get more kernel verbosity I have tried boot parameters
> - debug
> - earlyprintk
> which revealed no more essential info.
>
> Output of lspci -vv of the opensuse 12.3 installation (filtered for the
> Twinhan card)
>
> 03:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 11)
> Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB card
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
> Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> No end tag found
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> Kernel driver in use: bttv
>
> 03:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 11)
> Subsystem: Twinhan Technology Co. Ltd VisionPlus DVB Card
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
> Region 0: Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
> Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
> No end tag found
> Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> Kernel driver in use: bt878
>
> Output (part of) dmesg of the 12.3. Looks like the 13.1 output, but 13.1
> boot will be killed after * 8.208409] bttv: 0: tuner absent
>
> 7.851558] bttv: driver version 0.9.19 loaded
> 7.851562] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for
> capture
> 8.208285] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0)
> 8.208327] bttv: 0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:01.0, irq: 20,
> latency: 64, mmio: 0xfdffe000
> 8.208353] bttv: 0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI
> subsystem ID is 1822:0001
> 8.208355] bttv: 0: using: Twinhan DST + clones
> [card=113,autodetected]
> 8.208409] bttv: 0: tuner absent
> 8.208424] bttv: 0: add subdevice “dvb0”
> 8.213749] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0)

Please use ‘lspci -nvv’ as that will add the PCI ID to the information.

A quick grep of the drivers/media/bt8xx/ tree indicates that this device needs a
firmware file named “hcwamc.rbf”. Is that in /lib/firmware/ on the 13.1 file
system? If not, you can copy it from the 12.3 partition.

The keep the driver from loading, blacklist bt878.

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#3

Thank you for the quick response!

Output of “lspci -nvv”

03:01.0 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
Subsystem: 1822:0001
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at fdffe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Connection timed out
Not readable
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: bttv

03:01.1 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
Subsystem: 1822:0001
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
Region 0: Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4]
Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Connection timed out
Not readable
Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: bt878

The file-system of the 12.3 install does not contain a file “hcwamc.rbf”. My understanding is, that this firmware file is for a Hauppauge card.

I blacklisted bt878 as the only blacklisted device added by me. The 13.1 boot still freezes.

Any other suggestion?
Thanks.

Fiete[/size][/size][/size][/size]

#4

And the last message now is … ?

#5

On 02/10/2014 08:36 PM, arvidjaar wrote:
>
> fiete;2623795 Wrote:
>>
>> I blacklisted bt878 as the only blacklisted device added by me. The 13.1
>> boot still freezes.
>>
>
> And the last message now is … ?

Did you check for firmware? You do know you can mount the 13.1 system in 12.3
and do things like copying files, etc.

#6

…
8.208355] bttv: 0: using: Twinhan DST + clones
[card=113,autodetected]
8.208409] bttv: 0: tuner absent

…last three lines.

Fiete

#7

[SOLVED] with still a question:

To avoid the crash during boot I had to add two modules to the blacklist /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf: bttv and bt878
Blacklisting only one of them still breaks booting.

I still have to test the other dvb tuner card (KNC1 PCI card). It seems, that the modules budget_av and saa7416 are loading nicely.
I was lucky because of the dual boot configuration, so it was easy to edit the blacklist. I am curious the boot parameters to prevent loading ‘bad’ modules (e.g. with Grub or Grub2).

My problem is solved, unfortunately I can’t report to kernel developers.
Thank you for looking at this and the valuable advice.

Fiete

#8

On 02/11/2014 03:56 PM, fiete wrote:
>
> [SOLVED] with still a question:
>
> To avoid the crash during boot I had to add two modules to the blacklist
> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf: bttv and bt878
> Blacklisting only one of them still breaks booting.
>
> I still have to test the other dvb tuner card (KNC1 PCI card). It seems,
> that the modules budget_av and saa7416 are loading nicely.
> I was lucky because of the dual boot configuration, so it was easy to
> edit the blacklist. I am curious the boot parameters to prevent loading
> ‘bad’ modules (e.g. with Grub or Grub2).
>
> My problem is solved, unfortunately I can’t report to kernel developers.
> Thank you for looking at this and the valuable tips.

I still want to know if the firmware is available.

Why can’t you report this? You can create a bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org.
Be sure to list this as a regression. I would help you with this, but I don’t
have the hardware.

#9

I searched the 12.3 (=working flawless) and 13.1 (=crashing during boot while loading modules bttv and bt878) filesystem for “hcwamc.rbf” and “hcw*” several times. No dice. I couldn’t find this file on both systems.

I will have a look at bugzilla.kernel.org tonight.
Thanks again.
Fiete

#10

I compiled and installed the latest stable vanilla kernel 3.13.3.
It boots flawlessly. Module bttv version 0.9.19 seems unchanged.

There is no crash after dmesg …tuner absent

0.000000] Linux version 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop (root@Q8.site) (gcc version 4.7.2 20130108 [gcc-4_7-branch revision 195012] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 13 23:05:21 CET 2014
0.607139] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop ehci_hcd
0.607584] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop uhci_hcd
0.607886] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop uhci_hcd
0.608200] usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop uhci_hcd
0.608498] usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.2_bttv_test-7-desktop uhci_hcd

15.597147] bttv: driver version 0.9.19 loaded
15.597153] bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
15.597199] bttv: Bt8xx card found (0)
15.597308] bttv: 0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:03:01.0, irq: 20, latency: 64, mmio: 0xfdffe000
15.597344] bttv: 0: detected: Twinhan VisionPlus DVB [card=113], PCI subsystem ID is 1822:0001
15.597346] bttv: 0: using: Twinhan DST + clones [card=113,autodetected]
15.597418] bttv: 0: tuner absent
15.597434] bttv: 0: add subdevice “dvb0”
15.669612] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0)

So I think there is no reason to report a bug with respect to the latest, stable kernel at the moment.
Fiete

#11

You need open bug report so 13.1 may be fixed. Having confirmation that bug is not present in current kernel versions actually increases chances for that.

#12

I found a relevant bug report at bugzilla.novell.com

Bug 861750 - Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-S card causes hang of bttv
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861750

and a patch for
./drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c

Maybe it will be fixed for openSuSE 13.1

Fiete

#13

On 2014-02-14 08:06, fiete wrote:
> I found a relevant bug report at bugzilla.novell.com

Add a “me too” to it, so that they see that more people are affected.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))