SteamOS update 2.145 pushed to brewmaster beta

[jvert]

This beta update fixes a few upgrade problems in the previous beta and updates the kernel to the latest 4.14.13 release.

• linux - update to 4.14.13
  
• linux-latest - update to 4.14.13
  
• firmware-free - update to 4.14.13
  
• firmware-nonfree - update to 4.14.13
  
• nvidia-graphics-drivers - fix compile error with linux 4.14.13 headers
  
• libglvnd - fix conflict with old libglvnd-nvidia
  
• glx-alternatives - add transitional glx-alternative-fglrx to allow upgrades
  
• fglrx-driver - transitional packages to allow upgrades from older systems

[warpig]

Awesome another update! How long for these updates to go stable release? Thank you.

[TransistorCowboy]

Had to do a full update to fix. But that worked. Happy SteamOS is alive and kicking

[NeptNutz]

Having fixed 99% of my 4K and Vulkan issues, I was pleased to see MAD MAX in vulkan_beta actually backing out of the Steam game page without freezing.

However, once it got to the home screen, it still locked-up the system.

If I had to guess, I think it might be some sort of Alt-Tab focus issue, much like Metro: Last Light when using an AMD card.

[Teddy]

Hi John,

I have issues to report. I attempted the user intended upgrade method in the client.

First attempt: Forced client to check for updates, it was detected, reboot to install ran very quickly as nothing has happened.
Second attempt: Flag restart to update SteamOS is still there, allowing it appears to install with a progress bar.
Afterwards, the restart to update SteamOS flag is *still* there and continues to remain, allowing it appears to do nothing and reboots very quickly. Debian update manager also warns me for updates.

Logfiles from today:
unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log: https://pastebin.com/aajydQBS
unattended-upgrades.log: https://pastebin.com/KfYvTfgv
unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log: https://pastebin.com/zQ1VLmaa
unattended-upgrades-shutdown-output.log is empty.

It appears to refuse to install this new kernel?

[ProfessorKaos64]

Awesome, should fix most of these boot loop cases for Nvidia folks. I'll test later myself. Have to head to work :/

[Redface]

This worked for me coming from the previous beta 2.141 on my nvidia gtx 960 alienware r2 steam machine (going to 2.141 caused endless repair loops for me as well I had to fix by logging in with ssh and manually upgrade with apt)

I just turned my machine on, waited a moment for the update notification to show up, restarted from that notification and the upgrade proceeded and finished without problems.

[jvert]

Originally posted by Teddy:

Hi John,

I have issues to report. I attempted the user intended upgrade method in the client.

First attempt: Forced client to check for updates, it was detected, reboot to install ran very quickly as nothing has happened.
Second attempt: Flag restart to update SteamOS is still there, allowing it appears to install with a progress bar.
Afterwards, the restart to update SteamOS flag is *still* there and continues to remain, allowing it appears to do nothing and reboots very quickly. Debian update manager also warns me for updates.

Logfiles from today:
unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log: https://pastebin.com/aajydQBS
unattended-upgrades.log: https://pastebin.com/KfYvTfgv
unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log: https://pastebin.com/zQ1VLmaa
unattended-upgrades-shutdown-output.log is empty.

It appears to refuse to install this new kernel?

Based on the logs it looks like things were installed? Can you post /var/run/unattended-upgrades/ready.json?

[Teddy]

Yes I can:

{
  "autoremovals": [],
  "blacklisted": [],
  "kept_back": [
    "linux-image-amd64"
  ],
  "to_install": {},
  "to_upgrade": {},
  "whitelisted": []
}

Line 386-388 in unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log caught my attention. uname -r still gives 4.14.0-0.steamos.76-amd64, so new kernel did not install I think.

[Mohandevir]

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

Having fixed 99% of my 4K and Vulkan issues, I was pleased to see MAD MAX in vulkan_beta actually backing out of the Steam game page without freezing.

However, once it got to the home screen, it still locked-up the system.

If I had to guess, I think it might be some sort of Alt-Tab focus issue, much like Metro: Last Light when using an AMD card.

Are you meaning the bug where BPM just freezes when you exit a Vulkan game? I have this bug with all of them on SteamOS (Serious Sam, The Talos Principle, Mad Max).I'm still on stable but I was hoping that this driver upgrade would take care of it...

[Redface]

I did restore my recovery partition after my successful upgrade from 2.141 to 2.145 back to 2.64 and upgraded to current release 2.121, after I set a password for desktop and installed openssh-server.
Then I checked sudo apt upgrade and 1 package which I dont remember now was marked as unneeded automatically installed, so I ran sudo apt-get autoremove before I installed the beta and then upgraded.
I had to power off the PC after a while since I have a bug in 2.121 where restarts just hang. I waited until I could not ssh in, sysrq keys did not work and the machine basically was shut down with lights still on (that bug has disappeared with the newer beta versions btw)
I powered it down and started again and the upgrade run for a while and then resulted in a boot repair loop, which I let run for over 5 times.

Here are my logs:

unattended-upgrades.log https://pastebin.com/BswGY5zy
unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log https://pastebin.com/BSAfSVhc
unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log https://pastebin.com/U5ySsVFq
unattended-upgrades-shutdown-output.log was empty
/var/run/unattended-upgrades/ready.json https://pastebin.com/m6Zcy8n0

[Teddy]

Originally posted by Mohandevir:

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

Having fixed 99% of my 4K and Vulkan issues, I was pleased to see MAD MAX in vulkan_beta actually backing out of the Steam game page without freezing.

However, once it got to the home screen, it still locked-up the system.

If I had to guess, I think it might be some sort of Alt-Tab focus issue, much like Metro: Last Light when using an AMD card.

Are you meaning the bug where BPM just freezes when you exit a Vulkan game? I have this bug with all of them on SteamOS (Serious Sam, The Talos Principle, Mad Max).I'm still on stable but I was hoping that this driver upgrade would take care of it...

Can you run Talos with Vulkan on SteamOS with nVidia? Mine refused to launch on GTX970, devs claim it's the driver.

[Mohandevir]

Originally posted by Teddy:

Originally posted by Mohandevir:

Are you meaning the bug where BPM just freezes when you exit a Vulkan game? I have this bug with all of them on SteamOS (Serious Sam, The Talos Principle, Mad Max).I'm still on stable but I was hoping that this driver upgrade would take care of it...

Can you run Talos with Vulkan on SteamOS with nVidia? Mine refused to launch on GTX970, devs claim it's the driver.

This one I will have to confirm... Last time I tried The Talos Principle, it was some time ago, but the result was the same: Play the game, exit the game and, after a few seconds, BPM freezes. As for Mad Max, tried it again 2 days ago on stable. Still true. Reverted back to OpenGL; everything works fine.

[NeptNutz]

Originally posted by Mohandevir:

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

Having fixed 99% of my 4K and Vulkan issues, I was pleased to see MAD MAX in vulkan_beta actually backing out of the Steam game page without freezing.

However, once it got to the home screen, it still locked-up the system.

If I had to guess, I think it might be some sort of Alt-Tab focus issue, much like Metro: Last Light when using an AMD card.

Are you meaning the bug where BPM just freezes when you exit a Vulkan game? I have this bug with all of them on SteamOS (Serious Sam, The Talos Principle, Mad Max).I'm still on stable but I was hoping that this driver upgrade would take care of it...

Yes, that is exactly what I mean.

So far, only MAD MAX in vulkan_beta seems to persist with this issue for me.

UPDATE: After game start, benchmark, rough quit and then reboot, The Talos Principle in Vulkan seems to be exiting to SteamOS session quite fine (both in 32 and 64 bit runs). However, I did notice once on game exit that BPM was running extremely choppy frame rates (like it was still stuck in low-FPS overlay mode).

That leaves MAD MAX vulkan_beta as the only Vulkan game freezing-up BPM SteamOS session for me (GTX 1070Ti) with the current driver. F1 2017 (aside from the driver version warning) and Serious Sam Fusion have no exiting problems.

[Mohandevir]

Originally posted by NeptNutz:

Originally posted by Mohandevir:

Are you meaning the bug where BPM just freezes when you exit a Vulkan game? I have this bug with all of them on SteamOS (Serious Sam, The Talos Principle, Mad Max).I'm still on stable but I was hoping that this driver upgrade would take care of it...

Yes, that is exactly what I mean.

So far, only MAD MAX in vulkan_beta seems to persist with this issue for me.

UPDATE: After game start, benchmark, rough quit and then reboot, The Talos Principle in Vulkan seems to be exiting to SteamOS session quite fine (both in 32 and 64 bit runs). However, I did notice once on game exit that BPM was running extremely choppy frame rates (like it was still stuck in low-FPS overlay mode).

That leaves MAD MAX vulkan_beta as the only Vulkan game freezing-up BPM SteamOS session for me (GTX 1070Ti) with the current driver. F1 2017 (aside from the driver version warning) and Serious Sam Fusion have no exiting problems.

Great! Good to know and thanks for testing.

Edit: I remember that at the time I tested these games on SteamOS and on Ubuntu with SteamOS-Compositor and got the same results. On the same Ubuntu setup, with same driver, the steam desktop client in BPM didn't have any issues. This is why I initialy tought that something could be wrong in the SteamOS-Compositor.

[NeptNutz]

Originally posted by Mohandevir:

Great! Good to know and thanks for testing.

Edit: I remember that at the time I tested these games on SteamOS and on Ubuntu with SteamOS-Compositor and got the same results. On the same Ubuntu setup, with same driver, the steam desktop client in BPM didn't have any issues. This is why I initialy tought that something could be wrong in the SteamOS-Compositor.

Same here. When I was sorting all this out with my 4K issues in Gnome desktop session, the Vulkan versions had no problems there, even with BPM, iirc.