On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 07:17:26PM +0000, Sami Korkalainen wrote: > Linux 6.2 and newer are (mostly) unbootable on my old HP 6730b laptop, the 6.1.30 works still fine. > The weirdest thing is that newer kernels (like 6.3.4 and 6.4-rc3) may boot ok on the first try, but when rebooting, the very same version doesn't boot. > > Some times, when trying to boot, I get this message repeated forever: > ACPI Error: No handler or method for GPE [XX], disabling event (20221020/evgpe-839) > On newer kernels, the date is 20230331 instead of 20221020. There is also some other error, but I can't read it as it gets overwritten by the other ACPI error, see image linked at the end. > > And some times, the screen will just stay completely blank. > > I tried booting with acpi=off, but it does not help. > > I bisected and this is the first bad commit 7e68dd7d07a2 > "Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next" I think networking changes shouldn't cause this ACPI regression, right? > > As the later kernels had the seemingly random booting behaviour (mentioned above), I retested the last good one 7c4a6309e27f by booting it several times and it boots every time. > > I tried getting some boot logs, but the boot process does not go far enough to make any logs. > > Kernel .config file: https://0x0.st/Hqt1.txt > > Environment (outputs of a working Linux 6.1 build): > Software (output of the ver_linux script): https://0x0.st/Hqte.txt > Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo): https://0x0.st/Hqt2.txt > Module information (from /proc/modules): https://0x0.st/HqtL.txt > /proc/ioports: https://0x0.st/Hqt9.txt > /proc/iomem: https://0x0.st/Hqtf.txt > PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root): https://0x0.st/HqtO.txt > SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi) Where is SCSI info? > > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: ATA Model: KINGSTON SVP200S Rev: C4 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: hp Model: CDDVDW TS-L633M Rev: 0301 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > > Distribution: Arch Linux > Boot manager: systemd-boot (UEFI) > > git bisect log: https://0x0.st/Hqgx.txt > ACPI Error (sorry for the dusty screen): https://0x0.st/HqEk.jpeg > > #regzbot ^introduced 7e68dd7d07a2 > > Best regards > Sami Korkalainen Anyway, I also Cc: netdev and acpi lists and maintainers (maybe they have idea on what's going on here) and also fixing up regzbot entry title: #regzbot title: Boot stall with ACPI error (no handler/method for GPE) caused by net-next 6.2 pull Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
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