bug#54010: closed (Linux-libre > 5.15.12 leads to unbootable system)

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and subject line Re: bug#53712: Guix System hangs after boot with linux-libre 
5.15.17
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regarding Linux-libre > 5.15.12 leads to unbootable system
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> Linux-libre > 5.15.12 leads to unbootable system
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 15 Feb 2022 15:56:27 +0100
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> User-agent: 
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> 2022 has left me without a working Linux-libre kernel.
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> Breakage occurred sometime between:
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>   • 92faad0adb93b8349bfd7c67911d3d95f0505eb2
>     (Jan. 3rd; Linux-libre 5.15.12)
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>   • 43dd34c7777a212c99a97da7a2c237158faa9a1b
>     (Jan. 31st; Linux-libre 5.15.17)
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> The symptoms are that, on my x86_64 laptop, the kernel boots, I can
> enter the passphrase for my root file system (‘cryptsetup’ is invoked
> from the initrd), things get printed, the console font changes, and then
> things get stuck here.  The last messages are from my sound card driver
> (Intel HDA).  It hangs before syslogd is started, and I think before
> shepherd is even started (I can’t be 100% sure because I cannot scroll
> back at that point, but I did add print statements in ‘shepherd.conf’
> and didn’t see them.)
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> The same config works in ‘guix system vm’.
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> I can work around the problem by reconfiguring from current ‘master’ and
> doing this:
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> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (define inferior-for-kernel
>   (inferior-for-channels
>    (list (channel
>           (name 'guix)
>           (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)
>           (commit
>            "92faad0adb93b8349bfd7c67911d3d95f0505eb2")))))
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> (operating-system
>   ;; …
>   (kernel
>     (first (lookup-inferior-packages inferior-for-kernel "linux-libre"))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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> This suggests a kernel issue.
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> Ideas and suggestions on how to debug this most welcome!
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> Ludo’.
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#53712: Guix System hangs after boot with linux-libre 5.15.17
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> Date: 
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> Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:08:38 -0500
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> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 04:03:03AM +0800, Squirrel via Bug reports for GNU Guix 
> wrote:
> > It seems that this is a bug from upstream linux, which may be patched soon.
> > Please see 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/stable/164448100914.10463.9523338503936670263.kvalo@kernel.org/
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> Good news, this bug has been fixed in the latest group of stable Linux
> releases:
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> 5.16.11
> 5.15.25
> 5.10.102
> 5.4.181
> 4.19.231
> 4.14.268
> 4.9.303
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> For our default release series, 5.15, it was fixed as commit
> ddd46059f7d99119b62d44c519df7a79f2e6a515:
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> https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.15.25
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