Created attachment 90436 [details] dmesg My machine occasionally freezed, especially, as I remember, when launching Firefox. I had to hard-reset my computer. About two weeks ago, after a freeze, I somehow managed to save a dmesg output. (I do not remember exactly. Maybe, after a while, the keyboard responded to Ctrl-Alt-F3?) I replaced the xserver-xorg-video-nouveau driver (which came with the Xubuntu) with nvidia-304, and there was no freeze since then.
Some relevant bits from the log. Pretty sure that the MMIO writes to b010/b020 aren't an issue... although I am a bit surprised you're seeing them. I wonder if firefox is somehow managing to invoke PMPEG. Or it could be the fifo getting fed random stuff causing it. Also, your kernel is compiled with gcc-4.8. Are you using a libdrm before 2.4.48 also compiled with gcc-4.8? If so, upgrade, or use an older gcc. [ 4986.606330] nouveau E[ PFIFO][0000:00:10.0] DMA_PUSHER - ch 4 [firefox[3578]] get 0x0036a000 put 0x0036a088 state 0xc0000000 (err: MEM_FAULT) push 0x00000000 MEM_FAULT? A little coincidental that the get pointer is at a page boundary. But this is pre-nv50, so there's no paging... what does MEM_FAULT mean? [ 4986.606336] nouveau W[ PFIFO][0000:00:10.0] unknown intr 0x00010000, ch 4 [ 4987.074657] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:10.0] MMIO write of 0x00dd0001 FAULT at 0x00b010 [ 4987.080772] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:10.0] MMIO write of 0x00e90001 FAULT at 0x00b020 [ 5002.116004] nouveau E[firefox[3578]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [firefox[3578]] [ 5002.116006] nouveau E[firefox[3574]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [firefox[3574]] [ 5002.118725] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated [ 5002.129735] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:10.0] MMIO write of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x00b010 [ 5002.136251] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:00:10.0] MMIO write of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x00b020 [ 5017.116005] nouveau E[firefox[3578]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [firefox[3578]] [ 5017.136003] nouveau E[firefox[3574]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [firefox[3574]] [ 5024.076000] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 21s! [firefox:3574] [ 5024.076000] CPU: 1 PID: 3574 Comm: firefox Tainted: GF 3.11.0-13-generic #20-Ubuntu [ 5024.076000] Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-73PVM-S2H/GA-73PVM-S2H, BIOS F6 03/11/2008 [ 5024.076000] task: ffff88003ba51770 ti: ffff88003df4e000 task.ti: ffff88003df4e000 [ 5024.076000] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8136f892>] [<ffffffff8136f892>] ioread32+0x42/0x50 [ 5024.076000] RSP: 0018:ffff88003df4fca0 EFLAGS: 00000292 [ 5024.076000] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003df42280 RCX: 000000000000f7f3 [ 5024.076000] RDX: 000000000000f7f3 RSI: ffffc900023c6048 RDI: ffffc900023c6048 [ 5024.076000] RBP: ffff88003df4fca8 R08: 0000000000017360 R09: ffff880061979780 [ 5024.076000] R10: ffffffffa0253b00 R11: ffff88003df4fe10 R12: ffff88005ea3a808 [ 5024.076000] R13: ffff880072936000 R14: 0000000000000008 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 5024.076000] FS: 00007faf14955740(0000) GS:ffff88007fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5024.076000] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5024.076000] CR2: 00007fffbc0f1b08 CR3: 000000005eb19000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 [ 5024.076000] Stack: [ 5024.076000] ffffffffa01c06e5 ffff88003df4fcb8 ffffffffa01f2f3f ffff88003df4fcf0 [ 5024.076000] ffffffffa01ea83f ffff880061979780 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [ 5024.076000] ffff88003ba51770 0000000000000000 ffff88003df4fd48 ffffffffa01eaed5 [ 5024.076000] Call Trace: [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01c06e5>] ? _nouveau_fifo_channel_rd32+0x15/0x20 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01f2f3f>] nv10_fence_read+0x1f/0x30 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01ea83f>] nouveau_fence_update+0x6f/0x90 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01eaed5>] nouveau_fence_wait+0xc5/0x1a0 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01eb238>] ? nouveau_fence_new+0x68/0xc0 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01e9495>] nouveau_channel_idle+0x75/0xa0 [nouveau] [ 5024.076000] [<ffffffffa01f2bbe>] nouveau_abi16_ioctl_gpuobj_free+0x8e/0x170 [nouveau]
> Are you using a libdrm before 2.4.48 also compiled with gcc-4.8? If it's the one that came with (X)Ubuntu, it's 2.4.46 compiled with gcc 4.8, but a recent update (3 days before your dmesg log, but I think such updates are by default installed only weekly) backported that fix (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdrm/2.4.46-1ubuntu1). To check whether you have that update, run (in a terminal): dpkg -s libdrm-nouveau2 Version 2.4.46-1 is unfixed, 2.4.46-1ubuntu1 is fixed. To install it if you don't have it already, go to System Settings > Software & Updates > Updates and tick "Recommended updates (saucy-updates)", then run Software Updater.
Peter, Saucy is EOL as of July 17, 2014. For more on this, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases . If this is an issue in a supported release, it will help immensely if you filed a new report with Ubuntu by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information running the following from a terminal: ubuntu-bug xorg Also, please feel free to subscribe me to it. For more on why this is helpful, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.
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