"firmware/sysfb: Set firmware-framebuffer parent device" breaks lightdm on Ubuntu 22.04 using amdgpu

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Wed Jun 19 13:50:18 UTC 2024


Hi

Am 13.06.24 um 07:59 schrieb Marek Olšák:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Commit 9eac534db0013aff9b9124985dab114600df9081 as per the title
> breaks (crashes?) lightdm (login screen) such that all I get is the
> terminal. It's also reproducible with tag v6.9 where the commit is
> present.

I was able to reproduce the problem with Ubutu 22.04 and later under 
qemu plus qxl, sort of. I login via gdm3 and then the quest machine 
switches off entirely.

>
> Reverting the commit fixes lightdm. A workaround is to bypass lightdm
> by triggering auto-login. This is a bug report.

The problem is that reverting the commit doesn't fix the issue for me. 
I'll try to do my own bisecting.

Best regards
Thomas

>
> (For AMD folks: It's also reproducible with amd-staging-drm-next.)
>
> Marek

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