Bug 46779 - Freeze on G86 [Quadro NVS 290] under Gnome Shell when opening Firefox tabs
Summary: Freeze on G86 [Quadro NVS 290] under Gnome Shell when opening Firefox tabs
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: 7.6 (2010.12)
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Nouveau Project
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2012-02-29 08:27 UTC by Sébastien Villemot
Modified: 2013-08-24 21:40 UTC (History)
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Debug info generated by Debian tool (64.00 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-29 08:27 UTC, Sébastien Villemot
no flags Details
Full kernel log (82.49 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-29 08:27 UTC, Sébastien Villemot
no flags Details
GDB trace (4.97 KB, text/plain)
2012-02-29 08:28 UTC, Sébastien Villemot
no flags Details

Description Sébastien Villemot 2012-02-29 08:27:02 UTC
Created attachment 57816 [details]
Debug info generated by Debian tool

Since I moved to Gnome 3, I experience a freeze of the nouveau driver. I never experienced a freeze with Gnome 2 or XFCE.

Under a normal use the freeze happens once a week or so, but I have been able to reproduce it almost deterministically:
- launch Gnome Shell
- open my RSS reader (Emacs/Gnus)
- quickly open several RSS items, which creates several tabs in Firefox (in particular this triggers the notification pop-up at the bottom of the screen)

The freeze inevitably occurs then. Display entirely frozen except the mouse.

I am able to SSH into the machine, kill the X server and start a new one. But the display remains frozen, so reboot is the only way to restore a sane state (I could not unload the "nouveau" kernel module).

I am using Debian testing ("Wheezy"), which has version 0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1 of the nouveau driver.

I attach some debug output created using Debian debug script, a full kernel log, and a GDB trace that I generated by attaching to the X process while it was in a frozen state.

Don't hesitate to ask for more debug information, since I have a way to reproduce the problem.
Comment 1 Sébastien Villemot 2012-02-29 08:27:40 UTC
Created attachment 57817 [details]
Full kernel log
Comment 2 Sébastien Villemot 2012-02-29 08:28:10 UTC
Created attachment 57818 [details]
GDB trace
Comment 3 Ilia Mirkin 2013-08-24 18:28:11 UTC
Please retest this with more current software and see if the problem still happens. (For the purpose of this discussion, "more current" means kernel >= 3.10, mesa >= 9.1, xf86-video-nouveau >= 1.0.9)
Comment 4 Sébastien Villemot 2013-08-24 21:40:13 UTC
I no longer have access to the hardware. I am therefore closing this issue.


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