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Chivohuaxteco
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KFD probe failed (solved)

#1 Post by Chivohuaxteco »

Kfd, kfd probe failed. I get this message when booting. Everything works flawlessly. I just would like to know if this failure can affect the system later or I just can ignore it. Thanks in advance, I'm a newbie in Linux.
Last edited by Chivohuaxteco on Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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stsoh
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Re: KFD probe failed

#2 Post by stsoh »

open thunar, goto /etc/modprobe.d. and create a new file name kfd.conf.
enter 'blacklist kfd' (w/o apostrophe) > save > exit > reboot.
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Stevo
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Re: KFD probe failed

#3 Post by Stevo »

It shouldn't break anything if you don't fix it, though. It's restricted to the 4.14 kernel:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56413

Probably we can blacklist it for the point release.
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Re: KFD probe failed

#4 Post by Chivohuaxteco »

stsoh wrote:open thunar, goto /etc/modprobe.d. and create a new file name kfd.conf.
enter 'blacklist kfd' (w/o apostrophe) > save > exit > reboot.
Thanks. I did it but nothing happens. the message is still there.
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Re: KFD probe failed

#5 Post by Chivohuaxteco »

Stevo wrote:It shouldn't break anything if you don't fix it, though. It's restricted to the 4.14 kernel:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56413

Probably we can blacklist it for the point release.
Thanks. I will ignore it then. Mx runs properly anyway even though the message is annoying. Is not highlighted or something but since I noticed is a failiure I wanted to know. However other distros send more errors so, I'll stay here lol
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Re: KFD probe failed

#6 Post by Stevo »

The Arch thread says the correct name of the module is amdkfd, which indeed is the name of the module I see in our 4.14 kernels.
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Re: KFD probe failed

#7 Post by Chivohuaxteco »

Stevo wrote:The Arch thread says the correct name of the module is amdkfd, which indeed is the name of the module I see in our 4.14 kernels.
I solved this by downgrading the kernel to 4.9. The message disappeared.
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Re: KFD probe failed

#8 Post by stsoh »

isn't it simple to change text from kfd to amdkfd?? beside if it works, it help others solve the same problem.
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Re: KFD probe failed

#9 Post by dolphin_oracle »

We made some updates to desktop-defaults-xfce-mx17 last nite that should remove the message by adding the amdkfd to a blacklist file.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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Re: KFD probe failed

#10 Post by Chivohuaxteco »

dolphin_oracle wrote:We made some updates to desktop-defaults-xfce-mx17 last nite that should remove the message by adding the amdkfd to a blacklist file.
great
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