RMRR firmware error message after kernel update to 5.10
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:15 am
Hi all,
Since updating to MX-21 Wildflower, I have been experiencing the same issue as OWL in this thread, but rather than necrothreadding I thought I'd start a new topic.
My laptop is a 5-year-old Lenovo Ideapad 305-15IBD, set up to dual-boot between MX Linux as my main OS and Windows 10 as the secondary one. After upgrading to MX-21 a couple of months ago, I now get the following error message upon booting up:
I had been using MX-19 for about 2 years before upgrading and never had any such error messages appear.
I have done an internet search and it looks like users of Ubuntu-family Linux computers sometimes experience the same error message, but I can't find much helpful for users of machines running Debian.
It's not a huge problem, because my laptop still seems to boot up well and is still perfectly functional once it has booted up. It's just irritating...!
I would try to install an older kernel (pre-5.10) to see if that makes a difference, but none seems to be available in the MX or Debian repos in Package-Installer.
Here is my inxi -Fxxxrza output:
Thank you for any pointers/advice you can give.
(Edit: Removed a couple of lines from the error message about "sdb caching mode" or some such - this was caused by the USB stick I used to update my BIOS before submitting this post, to see if that would resolve the error message. It didn't, and I'd left the stick inserted by mistake.)
Since updating to MX-21 Wildflower, I have been experiencing the same issue as OWL in this thread, but rather than necrothreadding I thought I'd start a new topic.
My laptop is a 5-year-old Lenovo Ideapad 305-15IBD, set up to dual-boot between MX Linux as my main OS and Windows 10 as the secondary one. After upgrading to MX-21 a couple of months ago, I now get the following error message upon booting up:
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[ 0.071635] DMAR: [Firmware Bug] No firmware reserved region can cover this
RMRR [0x000000009d000000-0x000000009fffffff], contact BIOS vendor for fixes
I have done an internet search and it looks like users of Ubuntu-family Linux computers sometimes experience the same error message, but I can't find much helpful for users of machines running Debian.
It's not a huge problem, because my laptop still seems to boot up well and is still perfectly functional once it has booted up. It's just irritating...!
I would try to install an older kernel (pre-5.10) to see if that makes a difference, but none seems to be available in the MX or Debian repos in Package-Installer.
Here is my inxi -Fxxxrza output:
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System: Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.10.0-9-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-21_x64 Wildflower October 20 2021 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine: Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 80NJ v: ideapad 305-15IBD serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 v: ideapad 305-15IBD serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: ideapad 305-15IB v: SDK0J40700 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
v: A8CN54WW(V3.07) date: 09/02/2016
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 24.0 Wh condition: 24.0/28.5 Wh (84%) volts: 16.2/14.4
model: 0x53 0x41 0x4E 0x59 0x4F 0x00 0x 003041345333314C type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-5005U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell
family: 6 model-id: 3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 2F L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 15964
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 500/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 799 3: 798 4: 798
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1616
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
compositor: compton v: 1 resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5
direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:160c
Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:9ca0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-9-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 09:00.0
chip ID: 8086:08b4
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 946.35 GiB used: 17.86 GiB (1.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10JPCX-24UE4T0 size: 931.51 GiB
block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm
serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Generic model: SD MMC size: 14.84 GiB block size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 20.00 GiB size: 19.52 GiB (97.59%) used: 15.43 GiB (79.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /boot raw size: 1024.0 MiB size: 973.4 MiB (95.06%) used: 103.2 MiB (10.6%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
ID-3: /home raw size: 781.55 GiB size: 768.22 GiB (98.29%) used: 2.30 GiB (0.3%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8
ID-4: swap-1 size: 8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60)
cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/packages/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
1: deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable
Info: Processes: 202 Uptime: 8m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 720.4 MiB (9.2%) Init: systemd
v: 247 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in
running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36
(Edit: Removed a couple of lines from the error message about "sdb caching mode" or some such - this was caused by the USB stick I used to update my BIOS before submitting this post, to see if that would resolve the error message. It didn't, and I'd left the stick inserted by mistake.)