Debian :: Kworker Hogging CPU On New Jessie Install - EDID Checksum Is Invalid

May 16, 2015

I just installed jessie on a machine that had been running wheezy with no problems. Now I see that a kworker process is hogging nearly 100% of one of the CPUs. I am not sure how to proceed with solving the problem even after doing a number of Google searches.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I am getting the following when I run 'dmesg':

[ 3637.597975] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 42
[ 3637.597979] Raw EDID:
[ 3637.597981] 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 4d d9 90 02 01 01 01 01

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My hardware is:
cpu:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2333 MHz
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz, 2000 MHz
keyboard:
/dev/input/event0 AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
mouse:
/dev/input/mice ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse

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Here is the "top" display, showing 75.2% of the CPU on kworker/1:2 and 27.6% of the CPU on kworker/1.1:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
4731 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 72.5 0.0 0:53.73 kworker/1:2
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 27.6 0.0 0:58.69 kworker/1:1
1246 dan 20 0 1668476 132720 57548 S 2.7 4.3 0:42.33 gnome-shell
4673 dan 20 0 855208 158368 65568 S 2.7 5.2 0:28.44 iceweasel
815 root 20 0 201804 29020 18728 S 1.0 0.9 0:14.30 Xorg

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Ubuntu Installation :: 11.04 LiveCD - EDID Checksum Invalid

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I burned a new disk with ubuntu 11.04 image and I managed to boot the live cd using my external monitor, I've installed and went into my monitor settings, it displays my external monitor as unknown and doesn't even detect my laptop screen. Changing the driver being used in my xorg.conf to vesa allows me to boot properly and ubuntu uses my laptop screen (yet it still detects it as an unknown monitor). Installing any nvidia driver and using it breaks my system. Heres an image of the laptop when using the nvidia driver (btw I can still hear the ubuntu sound that plays when its reached the logon prompt).

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I have got a very frustrating problem. I am not new to Ubuntu but this time I bit my tongue! Actually it is a problem related to my graphics card "Intel 945GM" , it is a real crap card but it is working fine with Windows XP pro (I use windows just for testing)!

Problem : My monitor DELL ST2310 would not work under DVI mode (only VGA mode is working fine)! I tested with Kubuntu, Ubuntu (several distos), Fedora 13.. Upon booting, I get this error message :

Code:
EDID checksum is invalid
remainder 130
the monitor DVI connection is working perfectly under Windows XP. This means the Intel 945GM cannot read the EDID hexadecimal data transmitted by the monitor through the DVI connection. Yet, System recognizes the graphic card's DVI-D port but set it as disconnected.

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I booted to the latest live CD to have a look around. My dmesg output includes these ominous lines:

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sudo dmraid -ay -v
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no raid disks

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Dec 4, 2015

I am running Wheezy 7.9, I have a Biostar motherboard with integrated Intel graphics (945 chip set), and a Viewsonic va912b 19" LCD monitor. I have recently been having problems with the computer not being able to read the EDID data from my monitor. About half the time the EDID is read okay. So, in order to set the monitor to the desired resolution I have created a shell script to set the resolution after I log in. Knowing that my monitor supports 1152x864 @75hz I used cvt to get the modeline info.

Code:

Select allroot@JohnBoy:/home/john# cvt 1152 864 75
# 1152x864 74.82 Hz (CVT 1.00M3) hsync: 67.71 kHz; pclk: 104.00 MHz
Modeline "1152x864_75.00"  104.00  1152 1224 1344 1536  864 867 871 905 -hsync +vsync

Then I wrote this shell script.

Code: Select all#! /bin/sh
#! /etc/init.d/monitor_1152x864x75
#
#add monitor resolution not being found at startup
#data from cvt
xrandr --newmode 1152x864_75.00  104.00  1152 1224 1344 1536  864 867 871 905 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA1 1152x864_75.00
exit 0

It works fine, but I see a difference between what cvt gives versus what I see in the xorg log file (when I get a good EDID read). Here is what I see in the xorg log.

Code: Select all[    17.611] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1152x864"x75.0  108.00  1152 1216 1344 1600  864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync (67.5 kHz e)

Notice that there are some small differences in the horizontal and vertical timings, cvt versus xorg log.

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I had problems with the system not reading the monitor EDID and have fixed the problem by adding an override file in xorg.conf.d and all of that seems to be working well (although the system has not failed to read the EDID since I implemented the override. go figure).

The thing that I am wondering about is something I see in the Xorg log file. At the end of the log file, after everything seems to be configured, there are six (6) identical blocks of information regarding the EDID and modeline settings. Is this normal or is X stuck in some kind of loop? Everything is working and I am not waiting an inordinate amount of time to log on, or after. Just curious. Here is the log file.

Code: Select all[    15.848]
X.Org X Server 1.12.4
Release Date: 2012-08-27
[    15.848] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    15.848] Build Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 i686 Debian
[    15.848] Current Operating System: Linux JohnBoy 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.73-2+deb7u2 i686
[    15.848] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-686-pae root=UUID=5c593049-113a-44f6-87fd-511b71461dde ro quiet
[    15.848] Build Date: 09 February 2015  10:12:47AM

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I recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie and everything went as planned with dist-upgrade. However I just noticed that I can't play any video file. I thought about upgrading vlc, as it was already installed but it had dependency problems. So I tried to remove it

Code: Select allsudo apt-get remove --purge vlc

Then If I try to install vlc I receive this message:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.2.0~rc2-2) but 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 is to be installed
Depends: libvlccore8 (>= 2.2.0~pre1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.2.0~rc2-2) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: vlc-plugin-samba (= 2.2.0~rc2-2) but it is not going to be installed
Breaks: vlc-nox (< 2.2.0~pre2-2~) but 2.0.3-5+deb7u2+b1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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This is my sources.list

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deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
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m trying to install xrdp on Debian 8, I have attempted it with the following commands run under root:

Code: Select allapt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install xrdp

Everything installed fine, with no errors

Code: Select allroot@tom-deb:/home/user# apt-get install xrdp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done

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Now from windows using Remote Desktop connection, an attempt was made to connect remotely, I can see xrdp working just fine, but when I am logging into xrdp-sesmanx11 with the username and password, it exits out suddenly, are there other packages that need to be installed?

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I tried with
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Here is the relevant part of the syslog.

Dec 8 07:41:38 jon-desktop rsyslogd:
[origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="8.4.2" x-pid="775" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"]
rsyslogd was HUPed
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^

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My clock said 07:41 at the time of the hang.

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Here is my sources.list
Code: Select alldeb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib
deb-src http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ jessie main non-free contrib

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I have an Acer Aspire 4820TG Laptop with:
Core: i7-640M
integrated graphics: Intel
discrete graphics: Radeon Mobility 5650HD

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The problem looks as follows: When I start the system the graphical login screen gets stuck and the console tells me first:

Code: Select allradeon 0000:01:00.0: Userspace still has active objects!

then a lot of numbers, then

Code: Select allradeon 0000:01:00.0: ring 5 stalled for more than 10000 msec
[drm:uvd_v1_0_ib_test] *ERROR* radeon: fence wait failed (-35).
[drm:radeon_ib_ring_tests] *ERROR* radeon: failed testing IB on ring 5 (-35).

and this repeats once (or twice?) until several new messages arrive.

Those pause at

Code: Select allFixing recursive faul but reboot is needed !

Then again lots of more error messages until the everything freezes, with the last message

Code: Select all---[ end trace 13dfd971ff8e0aed]---

(Might contain typos. I don't know how to get the whole messages since the system dies a minute after booting and I only have a few seconds after the error messages start)

Even when I prevented the xserver from starting at boot I still got the same problems.

I would very much like to be able to switch between my chips, because I can only use external monitors when the ATI chip is active, but I would also like to be able to use the battery saving internal chip option.

I also tried to install the proprietary driver (though I would prefer if I didn't have to do that), but I couldn't get the xserver to work while it was installed.

lscpi output:
Code: Select all00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 18)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 18)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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I am unable to install various packages, including gedit, aptitude etc. I do not think it is a problem with my sources.list as my laptop has the same sources.list and I am not encountering the same problems on it. Packages will not install any dependencies. -f install isn't doing anything for me.

My sources.list...

deb [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src [arch=amd64,i386] http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

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Sep 4, 2015

I have a Dell laptop (inspiron 1150) which was dual booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.04. I have successfully installed Debian Jessie Standard over the Ubuntu. I pre-partitioned using gparted-live to make a separate single partition for the Debian install. Guided partitioning was then carried out by the installer producing separate /, /home, and swap partitions. After installation, the grub menu shows an entry for Debian and Windows XP. I can boot Debian, but not Windows XP. The symptoms are the same as reported in other forums: A terminal is displayed, vanishes and the system reboots defaulting to the Debian boot.

The grub.cfg file for the Jessie system has an other-os entry:

Code: Select allmenuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda2)" {
   set root=(hostdisk//dev/sda, msdos2)
   search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cc0ce0ab0ce091ae
   drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
   chainloader +1
}

The original Windows entry for the Ubuntu install was:

Code: Select allmenuentry "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (on /dev/sda2)" {
   insmod ntfs
   set root=(hd0,2)
   search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set cc0ce0ab0ce091ae
   drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
   chainloader +1
}

The partitions produced by partman look OK (during the pre-partitioning I did not touch sda1, sda2, or sda3):

Code: Select all~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 37.3 GiB, 40007761920 bytes, 78140160 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

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Partition table entries are not in disk order.

The os-prober found XP:

Code: Select all~ # os-prober
/dev/sda2:Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition:Windows:chain

So it seems that everything is in place, but there are perhaps important differences in the grub.cfg files. Are the two "set root" commands equivalent for example?

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- the computer stopped working at all... nor bios access.
- I did a new bootable installation in USB drive and downloaded the latest debian iso from official website and created the bootable device via dd as usual.
- I installed the new debian but after I removed the usb drive in order to boot into my new system. I was taken to a screen saying "Start PXE over IPv6 -- Start PXE over IPv4 ..." I followed several links looking for a fix, and all of them lead me to disable network boot option in BIOS setup...
- I disabled but after that it appears a new message "No Bootable device -- Press restart system" and nothing happens from there.
- I have found info in Internet regarding this issue, but all I find is "windows related"
- Someone recommended me this: "The BIOS can no longer recognize the hard drive as a bootable device. This could be for a number of reasons. Your best bet, if it is still under warranty, is going to be to bring it back to where you purchased it"
- But instead, what I did was to create a new bootable device, this time containing XUBUNTU and installed it to the machine, I had the good news that the installation proceed without any problem, so I could figured out that my machine it is still alive...
- Back to my issue and hoping that something unexpected happened that fixed the machine, I got back and did a new Debian bootable device, also hoping that the latest was corrupted or something, but after reboot to my new system... the problem persisted again.
- I chose to have 1 partition in full disk.

Now I don't know what else to do... I don't like ubuntu, I have used debian for some years and I want to keep using it and I would not like to be forced to move to ubuntu or xubuntu for this.

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