Bug 17356

Summary: NV4B 10DE:0393 Startx fails using nouveau on third console to Xorg context switch
Product: xorg Reporter: Mark Carey <mark.carey>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: moondrake
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments:
Description Flags
Xorg.0.log from sucessful boot
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kernel log showing failed start at 09:47 and then reboot
none
matching syslog 09:47 shows lots of drm fun!
none
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
none
/var/log/messages none

Description Mark Carey 2008-08-29 15:13:50 UTC 
Ubuntu 8.04.1
(/var/log/Xorg.0.log) Xserver 1.4.0.90
(dpkg -l | grep nouveau) xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.10~git20080827-0~ppa1~hardy
(/var/log/messages) nouveau 0.0.11 drm-2.3.0-1870-g9c7137483d1ef47ea
(dpkg -l | grep drm) libdrm2 2.3.1+git20080827-0~ppa1~hardy
(/var/log/messages) drm drm-2.3.0-1870-g9c7137483d1ef47ea
(uname -a) kernel 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Using ROAFs packaged nouveau - thanks ROAF!

Boot machine (context switch console to x) login via gdm on account1, logout (context switch x to console) gdm restarts (context switch console to x) login via gdm on account2, logout (context switch x to console) gdm attempts to restart using nouveau but fails, Xorg eventually resorts to using the vesa driver in lieu of nouveau and manages to start.

Will attach xorg log from sucessful start, log does not appear to be retained on failed startup attempt - any suggestions on how to grab this appreciated.
Comment 1 Mark Carey 2008-08-29 15:15:16 UTC 
Created attachment 18575 [details]
Xorg.0.log from sucessful boot
Comment 2 Mark Carey 2008-08-29 15:21:34 UTC 
Created attachment 18576 [details]
kernel log showing failed start at 09:47 and then reboot
Comment 3 Mark Carey 2008-08-29 15:40:25 UTC 
Created attachment 18580 [details]
matching syslog 09:47 shows lots of drm fun!
Comment 4 Danny 2008-09-01 02:09:58 UTC 
This may well be a real bug in the drm, but all those vmware messages interspaced with the failure to allocate memory make me nervous. Can you try without vmware loaded to see if it makes a difference?

danny
Comment 5 Mark Carey 2008-09-12 02:28:53 UTC 
no vmware, I havent been able to get nouveau to fail.

versions of a few things have changed though.  Will attach updated logs but appears fixed ...
Comment 6 Mark Carey 2008-09-12 02:30:01 UTC 
Created attachment 18841 [details]
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
Comment 7 Mark Carey 2008-09-12 02:30:47 UTC 
Created attachment 18842 [details]
/var/log/messages

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