update to 2019-02 crashes video on embedded intel with i915 on 2 systems

until 20.1.2019 everything works fine – a BTRFS-snapshot of that time does work every time again.

  1. station is a Thinkpad Yoga X1 (3.gen) with i915 kernel graphic
  2. station (old 4-core) which shows with inxi -G:

inxi -G

Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: intel resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.1

After start the kde-plasma-graphic desktop is unusable! (Text terminal works even in the graphic screen after <alt>-F2.

I did not found any similar reports and my work was not successful to correct it
Hopefully the “more advanced people” on the list will have attention on this issue!

At the moment for me: there is no update with the rolling distribution available – sorry to say that!

on one screen after start all opened windows are depicted overlapping on one screen but without any headline and the screen window list at the lower end of the screen is without any function and missing the “k”-menue!

Hope this helps for the first impression.

Are there any hints, what to check? to do? to find out the error?
I reinstalled the last tumbleweed update several times from the older “snapper rollback” (Jan 18, 2019) all time the same result

Thanks
Michael
Screenshot:file:///home/hartje/Dokumente/devel/WIN_20190205_104756.JPG

Hi, welcome

1st: How did you update/upgrade?
2nd: Any added repos? Please show

zypper lr -d

between CODE tags, the # in de editor.

Depending on how often you update, you may have just encountered the bug discussed in:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/534273-Upgrade-to-20181218-killed-all-but-one-graphical-login

If so, there is a fix working its way through but removing xf86-video-intel will fix it (and you need to block it from reinstalling).

Sorry for the delay – I entered the reply but there might be a "non acceptance of the forum system…
ok again:
This is from the Yoga X1 (before normal update with Yast “all new packages”)

# | Alias | Name | Aktiviert | GPG-Überprüfung | Aktualisierung | Priorität | Typ | URI | Dienst
---+--------------------------------------+---------------------------------+-----------+-----------------+----------------+-----------+--------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------
1 | download.nvidia.com-tumbleweed | nVidia Graphics Drivers | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed |
2 | download.opensuse.org-non-oss | Haupt-Repository (NON-OSS) | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/non-oss/ |
3 | download.opensuse.org-oss | Haupt-Repository (OSS) | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
4 | download.opensuse.org-tumbleweed | Hauptaktualisierungs-Repository | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/ |
5 | http-download.opensuse.org-0e68d118 | devel:libraries:c_c++ | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/libraries:/c_c%2B%2B/openSUSE_Factory/ |
6 | http-download.opensuse.org-52b9b394 | multimedia:libs | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/libs/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
7 | http-download.opensuse.org-56f264ff | games | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
8 | http-download.opensuse.org-59da6a91 | Base:System | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Base:/System/openSUSE_Factory/ |
9 | http-download.opensuse.org-665400f6 | KDE:Extra | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
10 | http-download.opensuse.org-7c199fc5 | home:Herbster0815 | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Herbster0815/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
11 | http-download.opensuse.org-a236ce69 | openSUSE:Factory | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Factory/snapshot/ |
12 | http-download.opensuse.org-cdf1aa95 | games:tools | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:/tools/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
13 | http-download.opensuse.org-e13aeeb9 | home:happenpappen | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/happenpappen/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
14 | http-download.opensuse.org-faae9b31 | KDE:Frameworks5 | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Factory/ |
15 | openSUSE-20180606-0 | openSUSE-20180606-0 | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
16 | openSUSE-20180628-0 | openSUSE-20180628-0 | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
17 | openSUSE_Tumbleweed | basket | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/PunisherHD:/Trinity:/r14.0.x/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
18 | packman.inode.at-openSUSE_Tumbleweed | Packman Repository | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ |
19 | repo-debug | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Debug | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
20 | repo-source | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Source | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ |
21 | skype-stable | skype (stable) | Ja | (r ) Ja | Ja | 99 | rpm-md | https://repo.skype.com/rpm/stable/ |

It is an excellent idea to look at – which I had not! Thanks!

May be, that there are repos which should be deactivated?
What is your recommendation for the next action?

Michael

The described flickering to black happens to me after a manual and additional installing of the xf86-video-intel package on the Yoga X1 – so I removed it as fast as I could – but I will check on the second machine, if this could be the reason for the video damage after installation.

Thanks for mentioning this observation with the link
Michael

before normal update with Yast “all new packages”

the only way to update Tumbleweed is
sudo zypper dup
from a terminal.

Thanks for the information – I did updating of tumbleweed over the last years only with Yast –> all packages newer…

And this was all time successful !

So I will try again regarding your recommendations later

Are any further hints to pay attention on?

Removing the xf86-video-intel on my main system resulted into “no graphic login screen”

so I added it again.

Tumbleweed is released over and over again. So, needs ‘zypper dup’ and nothing else.
Furthermore I see a lot of experimental repos, amongst others KDE:Frameworks5 and home: repos. These are not for daily production usage, and will defnitely break, if not now, then some day. We see this quite a lot, and I don’t get the reasoning for doing so. F.e. KDE: Most of the times the KDE stable releases end up in TW within (a) day(s). Why add these untested repos? To have later than latest?

partly success:
Thinkpad Yoga: regarding the recommendations and

  • removing many of the repos which are not really needed and
  • zypper dup
    installs everything correct (kernel 4.20.6) – This is reaching the new state! Thanks!

For the other system – I hope this will be the same result
Thanks to everybody reading, thinking and writing the impressions.

Michael