Nouveau crashing boot with Nvidia GPU

[kewde]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.1):

R3.1

Affected TemplateVMs (e.g., fedora-23, if applicable):

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Expected behavior:

A succesful boot after the GRUB menu

Actual behavior:

I haven't been able to grab the logs of my drive, but I'm getting these exact errors:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91722

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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General notes:

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Related issues:

[andrewdavidwong]

This sounds like a problem with your specific hardware configuration. Such problems are too localized for qubes-issues. Please consider posting this to the qubes-users mailing list instead. (You can read more about our mailing lists here.)

qubes-users is intended for these sorts of questions and receives much more traffic, which means that your question is more likely to receive a response there.

[andrewdavidwong]

This sounds like a problem with your specific hardware configuration. Such problems are too localized for qubes-issues. Please consider posting this to the qubes-users mailing list instead. (You can read more about our mailing lists here.)

qubes-users is intended for these sorts of questions and receives much more traffic, which means that your question is more likely to receive a response there.

[kewde]

Don't lock it up just yet, I "fixed" it. Writing a small guide 👍

[kewde]

Don't lock it up just yet, I "fixed" it. Writing a small guide 👍

[andrewdavidwong]

Ok, thanks! 👍

[andrewdavidwong]

Ok, thanks! 👍

[kewde]

Okay, so as I thought nouveau was not playing nice with the nvidia card.

ERROR in question (for SEO purposes):
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] grctx template channel unload timeout
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] failed to construct context
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] init failed, -16

ANSWER:

1. At the grub screen, press the up or down arrow keys to select the grub stanza/entry in question.

2. Press the "E" key.

3. An editor will open up that will allow you to temporarily change the grub options for the next boot.

4. Press the down arrow key and move the cursor to the line after the line with the kernel options. The line with the kernel options might look something like, I didn't type everything as it may differ from system to system:
   module /vmlinux-4.1.13-9.pvops.qubes.x86_64 placeholder root=/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root ro ... rhgb quiet

5. Press the left/right arrow keys to position the cursor at the end of kernel options line.

6. Type in "nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off" {without the quotes}

7. Press either the F10 key or Ctrl+X to start the boot process.

Credits: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=79797 updated to work with Qubes

Then to make this change persistent, so your boot will always work:

1. Open a terminal ('run command' then type 'terminal' and hit enter)

2. type following commands:
   cd /etc/default/
sudo nano grub

3. Edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, add the following to it at the end:
   nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off

4. ctrl + X and y to save the file

5. Compile the configuration file to something the bootloader can read
   sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Credits: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/install-nvidia-driver/

[kewde]

Okay, so as I thought nouveau was not playing nice with the nvidia card.

ERROR in question (for SEO purposes):
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] grctx template channel unload timeout
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] failed to construct context
nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] init failed, -16

ANSWER:

1. At the grub screen, press the up or down arrow keys to select the grub stanza/entry in question.

2. Press the "E" key.

3. An editor will open up that will allow you to temporarily change the grub options for the next boot.

4. Press the down arrow key and move the cursor to the line after the line with the kernel options. The line with the kernel options might look something like, I didn't type everything as it may differ from system to system:
   module /vmlinux-4.1.13-9.pvops.qubes.x86_64 placeholder root=/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0-root ro ... rhgb quiet

5. Press the left/right arrow keys to position the cursor at the end of kernel options line.

6. Type in "nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off" {without the quotes}

7. Press either the F10 key or Ctrl+X to start the boot process.

Credits: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=79797 updated to work with Qubes

Then to make this change persistent, so your boot will always work:

1. Open a terminal ('run command' then type 'terminal' and hit enter)

2. type following commands:
   cd /etc/default/
sudo nano grub

3. Edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, add the following to it at the end:
   nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off

4. ctrl + X and y to save the file

5. Compile the configuration file to something the bootloader can read
   sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Credits: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/install-nvidia-driver/

[kewde]

@andrewdavidwong you can close it now, finished it.

[kewde]

@andrewdavidwong you can close it now, finished it.

[andrewdavidwong]

@kewde, would you be willing to submit this as a PR against the Nvidia Troubleshooting page?

[andrewdavidwong]

@kewde, would you be willing to submit this as a PR against the Nvidia Troubleshooting page?

[kewde]

@andrewdavidwong
Yes, I'll do that later this evening.

[kewde]

@andrewdavidwong
Yes, I'll do that later this evening.

[andrewdavidwong]

Thanks for your PRs, @kewde! Is there anything else needed for this issue?

[andrewdavidwong]

Thanks for your PRs, @kewde! Is there anything else needed for this issue?

[kewde]

I don't have anything to add to this specific issue, feel free to close it unless you have something to add to it.

[kewde]

I don't have anything to add to this specific issue, feel free to close it unless you have something to add to it.

[hairetdin]

@kewde thanks, it really helped me and works fine. There was a problem with the CentOS 7 installation.

[hairetdin]

@kewde thanks, it really helped me and works fine. There was a problem with the CentOS 7 installation.