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freezing when booting from SSD - asus radeon pb

Asked by Urob

I'm using an asus motherboard F1A75-Vpro with integrated graphic chipset.
No trouble whith 12.04 or 12.10 installation as long as i use a normal harddisk.
I recently bought a ssd drive, installation was successfull, but 50% of time when booting,
computer freezes.

On a frozen boot the file kern.log ends with:

Dec 16 11:51:23 witje kernel: [ 3.683005] input: HD-Audio Generic Line Out CLFE as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input11
Dec 16 11:51:23 witje kernel: [ 3.683147] input: HD-Audio Generic Line Out Surround as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input12
Dec 16 11:51:23 witje kernel: [ 3.683290] input: HD-Audio Generic Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card1/input13
Dec 16 11:51:24 witje kernel: [ 4.885715] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up
Dec 16 11:51:24 witje kernel: [ 4.886605] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.372235] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10000msec
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.372249] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GPU lockup (waiting for 0x0000000000000003 last fence id 0x0000000000000001)
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.373317] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GPU softreset
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.373319] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS=0xA0003828
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.373321] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000007
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.373323] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0x00000007
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.373325] radeon 0000:00:01.0: SRBM_STATUS=0x20020940
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524752] radeon 0000:00:01.0: Wait for MC idle timedout !
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524754] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_SOFT_RESET=0x00007F6B
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524856] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS=0x00003828
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524858] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE0=0x00000007
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524860] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GRBM_STATUS_SE1=0x00000007
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.524861] radeon 0000:00:01.0: SRBM_STATUS=0x20020940
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.525854] radeon 0000:00:01.0: GPU reset succeed
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.677414] radeon 0000:00:01.0: Wait for MC idle timedout !
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.828827] radeon 0000:00:01.0: Wait for MC idle timedout !
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.830690] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000000040000).
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.830772] radeon 0000:00:01.0: WB enabled
Dec 16 11:51:35 witje kernel: [ 15.830775] radeon 0000:00:01.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000020000c00 and cpu addr 0xffff88021322ac00
Dec 16 11:51:36 witje kernel: [ 15.995526] [drm:r600_ring_test] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8500)=0xCAFEDEAD)
Dec 16 11:51:36 witje kernel: [ 15.995529] [drm:evergreen_resume] *ERROR* evergreen startup failed on resume

Apparently, the fact that i boot from SSD has an influence on the integrated radeon chipset.
Is it because SSD boots much faster and radeon chipset not responding fast enough?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Are there any bugs reported?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

A workaround may be to put /boot on the platter based drive then the rest of the OS on the SSD

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Urob (robert-gath) said : 		#3

Extra info: When i use this same SSD and insert it into another older computer, there is no problem. All works fine.

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Urob (robert-gath) said : 		#4

What do you mean by 'Are there any bugs reported ?'?
Should i file a bug report?
Attached the complete log file whith all boots .. some successfull some unsucessfull.

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Urob (robert-gath) said : 		#5

I tried out the workaround.

Fresh install:
swap, /boot, /var, /temp on platter based drive
/ on solid state drive

PC freezes 20% of time now instead of 50% ... but those figures might not be true statistically because the number of trials was only about 10

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