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Ubuntu 17.10 will not boot after updating to 4.15 #208

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@luv2code

I put a fresh install of ubuntu 17.10 on my Pixel 2015. ran apt update && apt dist-upgrade and restarted. cloned this project and ran sudo dpkg -i *.deb in the build/debian directory. rebooted to a black screen. laptop is non-responsive.
I'm not sure how to recover. I don't know what else to do except re-install.

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  1. luv2code commented on Feb 11, 2018

    @luv2code
    Author

    I was able to switch back to the generic kernel by chroot from the USB install drive and removing the packages:

    sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
    sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
    sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
    sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
    sudo chroot /mnt
    # in the chroot:
    dpkg --purge linux-headers-4.15.0-ph+
    dpkg --purge linux-image-4.15.0-ph+
    dpkg --purge linux-libc-dev_4.15.0-ph+
  2. luv2code commented on Feb 16, 2018

    @luv2code
    Author

    I bisected the history and found the problem starts with 7c2fcc1

  3. raphael commented on Feb 16, 2018

    @raphael
    Owner

    Thanks for doing the research work, next step is to diff the configs between the last working version and the first non-working one. I'll take a look when I get a chance if you don't beat me to it.

  4. luv2code commented on Feb 17, 2018

    @luv2code
    Author

    I'm sorry, I didn't notice this the first time I ran this. This is from the head of master:

    $> sudo dpkg -i linux-image-4.15.0-ph+_4.15.0-ph+-51_amd64.deb
    update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-ph+
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/raid6/raid6_pq.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/crypto/xor.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/xxhash.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/zstd/zstd_decompress.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/zstd/zstd_compress.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/crypto/fscrypto.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/jbd2/jbd2.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/mbcache.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/crc16.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/jfs/jfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/crc-itu-t.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/crypto/crc32c_generic.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/libcrc32c.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/xfs/xfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/fscache/fscache.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs_common/grace.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs/nfs.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs/nfsv2.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs/nfsv3.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/net/dns_resolver/dns_resolver.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nfs/nfsv4.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/input/serio/serio.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/input/serio/libps2.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/input/serio/i8042.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/virtio/virtio.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/fat/fat.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/fat/vfat.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/extcon/extcon-usb-gpio.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptfc.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/pci/host/vmd.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/lib/842/842_decompress.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/video/vgastate.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko.xz not found.
    modinfo: ERROR: Module /lib/modules/4.15.0-ph+/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko.xz not found.
    Generating grub configuration file ...
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-ph+
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-ph+
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.14.14-ph+
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.14.14-ph+
    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-32-generic
    Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.13.0-32-generic
    Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
    Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
    done
    
  5. raphael commented on Feb 17, 2018

    @raphael
    Owner

    I'm hopeful the latest release (v4.15-7) fixed the issue however I can't test directly so please give it a shot and let me know.

  6. luv2code commented on Feb 20, 2018

    @luv2code
    Author

    I'm sorry to report that this latest one still doesn't work. It won't boot, and I'm still getting the Module not found errors on install.

  7. Neverminder commented on Apr 14, 2018

    @Neverminder

    I have the same problem with Ubuntu 17.10 and kernel 4.16. Any ideas?

  8. luv2code commented on Apr 14, 2018

    @luv2code
    Author

    The workaround is to stick to the last 4.14. I check every time he pushes a new kernel.

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