Bug 210519

Summary: Kernel HALT and reboot at start of the Cinnamon DE with Intel Graphics i915 driver
Product: Drivers Reporter: Vyacheslav Dikonov (sdiconov)
Component: Video(AGP)Assignee: Dave Airlie (airlied)
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: high    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 5.4.81 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Vyacheslav Dikonov 2020-12-06 16:39:20 UTC
* Hardware *and* driver used
     Intel UHD 630 9bc5    (i915)
     motheboard: MSI MEG z490i Unify
     CPU: Intel i7 10700
 * 32 or 64 bit
    64
 * .xsession-errors contains:

libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
[3571:3571:1206/135917.074113:ERROR:vaapi_wrapper.cc(541)] vaInitialize failed: unknown libva error
[3571:3571:1206/135917.076827:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.


Any attempt to start Cinnamon desktop (execute cinnmon-session) causes and immediate halt of the whole OS and reboot. This is probably caused by a defect in the i915 kernel driver.

Cinnamon devs do not want to take the blame: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/9752
Comment 1 Jani Nikula 2020-12-11 10:27:54 UTC
Please file i915 issues at the freedesktop.org gitlab https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/wikis/How-to-file-i915-bugs