Bug#1043024: amdgpu: When updating I get a "Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/modules" (Sapphire Nitro R9 390). This HAS indeed caused an issue (crashes and white screens)

[Aly Ghobashy]

Package: firmware-amd-graphics
Version: 20230210-5
Severity: important
File: amdgpu
X-Debbugs-Cc: aly.m.g...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

* What led up to the situation?
Opening videos sometimes causes the system to crash.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Nothing, happened with a completely clean install (using VLC)
* What was the outcome of this action?
Sometimes a system crash
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Nothing, but when I update the system i get "missing firmware"

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-amd-graphics depends on no packages.

firmware-amd-graphics recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-amd-graphics suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.142

-- no debconf information

[Gregor Riepl]

Package: firmware-amd-graphics
Version: 20230515-3
Followup-For: Bug #1043024
X-Debbugs-Cc: oni...@gmail.com

Can you post which firmware files are missing exactly?

dmesg should give you all the needed information.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB

[Aly M. Ghobashy]

Hello Gregor,

Sorry for the late reply, didn't get the update in my email.

This is the output from apt when I update my system:

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-11-amd64
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ip_discovery.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vega10_cap.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_cap.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi12_cap.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/psp_13_0_11_ta.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/psp_13_0_11_toc.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/psp_13_0_10_ta.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/psp_13_0_10_sos.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/aldebaran_cap.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_imu.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_rlc.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_mec.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_me.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_pfp.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_rlc.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_mec.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_me.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_pfp.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_0_toc.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sdma_6_0_3.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware
/lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mes1.bin for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/sienna_cichlid_mes.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/navi10_mes.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_mes1.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_mes_2.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_4_mes.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_mes1.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_mes_2.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_3_mes.bin for
module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_2_mes_2.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_1_mes_2.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/gc_11_0_0_mes_2.bin
for module amdgpu
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/amdgpu/smu_13_0_10.bin for
module amdgpu


Never had any issue with Debian other than this, besides this it's flawless