Bluefin 41 - Kernel Panic during boot

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My HP Spectre 13.5 2022 kernel panics on boot, after updating to Bluefin 41, rolling back to Bluefin 40 boots as normal. The odd thing is, sometimes it does boot, but I haven’t been able to reproduce it accurately.
It seems to kernel panic after mounting /boot/efi.

I can reproduce the issue on:
Version 41.20241112.1
Version 41.20241114.1

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Can you please add rpm-ostree status to help identify the issue?

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Sure,

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:9b4558a05315a855dffd3999c0693725a80754fa41b83ba536968b3e0e3afd5d
                  Version: 41.20241112.1 (2024-11-12T21:11:21Z)
                     Diff: 2149 upgraded, 5 downgraded, 75 removed, 65 added
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools rEFInd waydroid

● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:gts
                   Digest: sha256:d25dbf146f147914caf623ea2c98a4263f3f9ae8b3223fab9d973a186e189289
                  Version: 40.20241109.0 (2024-11-10T05:42:28Z)
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools rEFInd waydroid

I’m not on the main branch of course because I can’t boot from it, and all Bluefin 41 images have this issue, not just from the stable branch, I’ve tried stable, stable-daily and latest.
Previously I was on stable-daily on 40 and also stable on 40 and both were fine.

I’ll see if I can reproduce the issue on Fedora 41 and Silverblue 41 too.

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Just a thought, but why is refind layered here? Isn’t the default Bluefin bootloader Grub? Installing both Grub and refind could cause them to conflict…

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They don’t conflict, rEFInd loads GRUB (which is usually not shown anyway)
I prefer rEFInd because it looks better and works with touchscreens

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This is what someone on Discord said a couple of days ago so take it with a grain of salt because I can’t find anything confirming this in a quick search, but the rEFInd RPM is supposedly broken for Fedora 41.

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If refined is your default bootloader right now, I would try not using it.

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I’ve uninstalled rEFInd, it still won’t boot on Bluefin 41.

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:9b4558a05315a855dffd3999c0693725a80754fa41b83ba536968b3e0e3afd5d
                  Version: 41.20241112.1 (2024-11-12T21:11:21Z)
                     Diff: 2146 upgraded, 5 downgraded, 75 removed, 65 added
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools waydroid

● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-dx:gts
                   Digest: sha256:d25dbf146f147914caf623ea2c98a4263f3f9ae8b3223fab9d973a186e189289
                  Version: 40.20241109.0 (2024-11-10T05:42:28Z)
          LayeredPackages: freerdp grubby intel-gpu-tools waydroid
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I’m not sure what changed, but as of version latest-41.20250119 it’s fine now. I’ll try and go back and figure out which version fixed the bug.

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My findings:
Version: 41.20250119.1 (2025-01-19T06:04:01Z) - Not working
Version: latest-41.20250119 (2025-01-19T05:04:41Z) - Working

This is really odd because they seem to be the same/similar versions

GTS also works so I don’t think it’s a regression

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I’m on Bazzite but I also got a Kernel Panic during boot for the first time today.

rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: check; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: inactive
Deployments:
  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia:stable
                   Digest: sha256:61957bf6a9d1e05ef8dcc4370113b8c0fb2387eabf2e01fd4e7cc37524d5b9a2
                  Version: 41.20250131 (2025-01-31T05:19:58Z)
                     Diff: 55 upgraded, 2 removed, 1 added

● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia:stable
                   Digest: sha256:3ae3d2fc0d8e33ee187b78e7abc68ffe4a1b69f83957a56ae37f6ee4905319ee
                  Version: 41.20250127 (2025-01-27T05:43:17Z)

Anything else I could provide? Or should I make a seperate post in the Bazzite category?

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What kind of hardware do you have? If it’s similar to mine, it could be related, otherwise it might be best to create a separate thread

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Thanks, it’s not only me, I just found this thread on Lemmy: https://phtn.app/post/lemmy.ml/25454315

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I remember that bazzite wasn’t working for me either, it may be the same issue but it also might not, maybe try the latest branch, because that fixed it for me

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Good idea, thanks. Also re-read your post and no, I don’t have similar hardware to yours.

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Whatever the problem was, the fixes from latest have now trickled down into stable-daily and stable.

This is just a guess but I think it could be due to the newer kernel version.

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Beginner question, how did you install intel-gpu-tools?

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Intel-GPU-tools are listed in @linuxjava7 ‘s LayeredPackages, so you would download the .rpm, then use rpm-ostree to layer (install) it.

rpm-ostree install my-file.rpm

Then reboot.

Layering packages like this should be a last resort for things that need low level access to the system. For example, I use it for 1Password. Others use it for VPNs, etc.

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Thanks for your answer! I discovered yesterday that Mission Center’s GPU pane shows the information I was looking for. So no need for intel_gpu_tools for now :slight_smile:

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