Bug 210519 - Kernel HALT and reboot at start of the Cinnamon DE with Intel Graphics i915 driver
Summary: Kernel HALT and reboot at start of the Cinnamon DE with Intel Graphics i915 d...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Video(AGP) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: Dave Airlie
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Reported: 2020-12-06 16:39 UTC by Vyacheslav Dikonov
Modified: 2020-12-11 10:27 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 5.4.81
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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
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