[PVE 7.0] Supermicro H11DSi-NT - Xorg failing, backtrace

[foobar42]

Hey folks,

I'm trying to install PVE 7.0 on a server which is using Supermicro H11DSi-NT as mainboard.
Install in through IPMI KVM, CPU is EPYC2.

I'm not exactly sure what's happening here, it seems to fail when using fbdev/modeset.
Unfortunately I have the Xorg log only as screenshots.

Cheers,
foobar42

 

[foobar42]

It looks like the output on console is slightly different than in Xorg log. It referecens ast_dri.so but I can't find anything on google regarding this file.

 

[fabian]

lots of different similar reports, but no exact match. does the graphical version of the debian installer work? what about a PVE 6.4 iso?

 

[foobar42]

6.4-1 iso works without an issue. Generated xorg config is the same too.
I'll test the Debian installer in a few hrs.

 

[fabian]

okay, then this is likely a regression with kernel/xorg/mesa. if you don't need a specific feature from the 7.0 installer, installing with the 6.4 and then upgrading to 7.0 should be a viable workaround for now.

 

[foobar42]

Booting into Graphic Installer works with debian-bullseye-DI-rc3-amd64-DVD-1.iso

debian 11: xorg 1.20.11-1, 5.10.0-8-amd64

 

[fabian]

could you try booting with vga=788 with the PVE 7.0 iso (at the iso menu, hit 'e' and then add it to the line starting with 'linux', then hit 'ctrl+x' to boot)? just to compare apples with apples

 

[foobar42]

I tried it right away when I saw the difference in the kernel cmdline but it didn't help

 

[jsterr]

We are having the same issues tried everything from https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Debugging_Installation but didnt not help. Also no change with vga=788

 

[foobar42]

From Linux 5.12 Changelog:

commit 13177f6ed3ea380011cea8a2f798c918e1ffc436
Author: Ryan Sie <ryans@supermicro.com.tw>
Date: Mon Dec 21 05:43:15 2020 -0800

ARM: dts: aspeed: Add Supermicro x11spi BMC machine

The x11spi is a server platform with an ASPEED AST2500 BMC.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Sie <ryans@supermicro.com.tw>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221134315.5544-1-RyanS@supermicro.com.tw
Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

Maybe this is related? PVE7 is on 5.11.22

 

[foobar42]

I'll try to rebuild the PVE ISO on the weekend. Using a newer Kernel to boot the installer may fix this.
Or booting from the Debian ISO, then chrooting into the PVE ISO and starting the installer.

 

[foobar42]

Hi, any news on this issue?

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

Hi, any news on this issue?

good timing - We uploaded an updated ISO yesterday:
http://download.proxmox.com/iso/proxmox-ve_7.0-2.iso
checksums: http://download.proxmox.com/iso/SHA256SUMS

Would be great if you could report back if this fixes your issue

 

[foobar42]

Thank you Stoiko. Unfortunately it didn't fix the issue

 

[jsterr]

I was successful with H11DSI-NT and BIOS 2.3 (08.02.2021) IPMI 1.52.13 - was installing in Debugging Mode.
I also tried it once with Optimal Defaults from the BIOS + 7.02 and it worked once and the second time it did not.
Some times its loads the installer and then it reboots before loading it completely.

So sometimes it works sometimes not, most of the time not and we dont know why ^^

 

[foobar42]

I have the same versions and loaded optimal settings but can't get it to worken even after 7 tries.

 

[rayhubelia]

Also having the same issue. I've tried many things without success. The debian standard+nonfree iso booted up and able to install just fine. So I checked the boot command line on that iso and it had "video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=768". I added it it to the proxmox iso 7.0-2, and looking at the xserver logs, it complains about ast_dri.so.. Trying to load the ast module manually comes back with an error that the module isn't there. At this point, unless we create a custom iso that includes the ast driver, I don't think we'll have much luck getting it to work...

You can also have a look here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990016

 

[jsterr]

We did some installs via USB-stick (not ISO via IPMI) and were successfull 3-4 times in a row. Has someone tried USB also?

 

[Access2IT]

We did some installs via USB-stick (not ISO via IPMI) and were successfull 3-4 times in a row. Has someone tried USB also?

USB doesn't work for us either.

Our hardware specs:
Supermicro 1024US-TRT 1U server
2 x AMD Epyc 7452 32C/64T 2.3Ghz 128M
16 x 32GB DDR4-3200 ECC REG
4 x Samsung PM983 3,84TB NVMe SSD
Intel X520-DA2 Dual 10GbE SFP+ Card

 

[foobar42]

In the end I installed 6.4 and upgraded to 7.0. Have you tried the 7.1 ISO? Is the issue still present? Unfortunately it is not fixed upstream yet so I guess it is still there.