We have the following error message come up when the new Mageia 8 (after fresh, new install on new machine) is booting up (doesn't make it to desktop or even login screen):

_common_interrupt: 1.55 No irq handler for vector

(The message repeats with a line that goes up to 10.55)

How do we solve this?

If we have to add something to the "kernel," what do we do and how do we get to the kernel?

Thank you very much!!!!!!


Please note that we did a search for this on this site with nothing coming up.



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The search turned up this thread on Reddit, see particularly this comment:

We went through the links, and it seems there wasn't a real solution. A lot of things were tried. If there somehow was a solution, it was mixed up in technical jargon, and the text and info was so confusing. We clicked in the multiple links. We already updated the BIOS, and we can't find the iommu in the BIOS.

Is there an actual solution? Please help. Thank you.

Disable IOMMU in kernel.

Thank you for responding. How do we get to the kernel to disable it and what do we type?

Thank you!

When I built my new machine
Ryzen 5 3600
Asrock B550M Pro
32 GB ram

I had the same error as it booted on Fedora 33. The error was benign for me and I essentially ignored it since all I found online showed that users had no related problems that interfered with the machine operation.

There have been numerous kernel updates since then and at some point I quit seeing those errors so apparently whatever changes were made in the kernel over time corrected the error. For me the CPU and its microcode was ahead of the kernel development.

All I can suggest is just ignore it unless you can definitively say it caused a specific problem. Your new machine with bleeding edge hardware is likely to lag a little behind in the drivers and kernel catching up to the hardware.

Thank you letting me know your experience with it.

I wish I really could ignore it... The system freezes at the black screen with this message. The OS doesn't go forward to even the the login page.

Please help! Otherwise, I won't be able to use Mageia at all until new one comes out. Thank you everyone!

There are several kernel boot options that are IOMMU-related. A good explanation of them can be found at Gentoo Wiki. Ultimately, one of them should be added to the variable GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in the file /etc/default/grub. After that, don't forget to run grub-mkconfig.

Before that, you can test different options by adding them to a kernel line in the GRUB boot menu and booting that kernel.

I don't know which option will work best in your case. Perhaps iommu=off is needed. Or maybe iommu=soft or even iommu=noforce would be enough. Or maybe you should go for some AMD-specific option like amd_iommu_intr=legacy. If you don't find any information specific to your hardware configuration then it's mostly trial and error process.

We how do we edit the kernel? We got into recovery and are at root. Followed instructions to view localhost.localdomain kernel. It lets us view it, but can't edit it. Please advise. Thanks.

Okay. According to one link given :

IS THIS CORRECT? (We have not done anything, yet.)

If we choose recovery, it will run and go to root after giving password.

Then type, cd /usr/src/linux, press Enter
Then type make menuconfig, press Enter

Then type
Device Drivers ---> [*] IOMMU Hardware Support --->
Generic IOMMU Pagetable Support ---- [*] AMD IOMMU support [*] Export AMD IOMMU statistics to debugfs
<M> AMD IOMMU Version 2 driver [*] Support for Intel IOMMU using DMA Remapping Devices [*] Support for Shared Virtual Memory with Intel IOMMU [*] Enable Intel DMA Remapping Devices by default [*] Support for Interrupt Remapping

Then type, mount /boot. Press Enter.
Then type #make && make modules_install && make install Press Enter.

I'm not sure if this is the correct order or if I'm missing steps. I also don't know what comes up after this, but it seems to mean that something comes up where I can turn the IOMMU to off.



???

Not sure where/how to do what shruggy typed:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in the file /etc/default/grub. After that, don't forget to run grub-mkconfig.



Thanks for your help

No. Those steps are for rebuilding the kernel from source. You don't need it. See Grub configuration at Mageia Wiki. Particularly this:
And as I see now, Mageia has update-grub, so you should run it rather than grub-mkconfig.

An easier option for you probably would be adding kernel parameters in Grub Customizer, but you'd need to have a working GUI for this. Do Mageia live media include Grub Customizer, per chance?

You can edit a boot entry in GRUB boot menu by pressing e on it. See GRUB documentation.

BTW, have you tried safe boot (Advanced options for Mageia)?

When it was rebooted, we looked at the other boot options including under Advanced Options, but didn't find one that had Safe in its name.

We tried the Live disk, but it wouldn't load properly. We'll get back to you on the rest you noted, but wanted to give you an update.

How do we get to and change the file /etc/default/grub?

We figured out (we think) GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
but what comes before or after that, we don't know. The grub customizer was confusing.

We also tried to update the grub via typing e on the grub screen, but we could not get it to save.

Thank you for your help...and thank you for your patience.

I solved changing "XHCI Mode" in BIOS: from "Windows 10" to "Windows 7"

The error message "_common_interrupt: 1.55 No irq handler for vector" is related to the handling of hardware interrupts in the Linux kernel. To resolve this issue, the following steps:

Boot into single user mode: During boot, when the boot menu appears, select "Mageia 8" and then press the "e" key to edit the boot parameters. Add "single" to the end of the line starting with "linux". Then press "Ctrl + X" to boot into single user mode.

Modify the GRUB configuration: Once you have logged in as root in single user mode, run the following command: "nano /etc/default/grub". In the GRUB configuration file, find the line starting with "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" and add "noapic" to the end of the line. Save and exit the file.

Update the GRUB boot loader: Run the following command to update the GRUB boot loader: "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg".

Reboot: Run the command "reboot" to restart the system. The system should now boot without the error message.