Bug 92962 - KDE hangs and system freezes while journalctl lists complains of kernel (nouveau). Nvidia graphics
Summary: KDE hangs and system freezes while journalctl lists complains of kernel (nouv...
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/nouveau (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: stakanov
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2015-11-15 12:12 UTC by stakanov
Modified: 2019-12-04 09:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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output dmesg with system freezes complaining about nouveau (14.63 KB, text/plain)
2015-11-15 12:12 UTC, stakanov 		no flags Details
exerpt of systemdjournal complaining about nouveau (29.06 KB, text/plain)
2015-11-15 12:14 UTC, stakanov 		no flags Details
journalctl with -k-b-1 (112.31 KB, text/plain)
2015-11-16 09:39 UTC, stakanov 		no flags Details
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Description stakanov 2015-11-15 12:12:34 UTC 
Created attachment 119680 [details]
output dmesg with system freezes complaining about nouveau

This bug has originally reported to the bugzilla of opensuse and I was asked to report it here. 
Ref: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=954746

In this installation of Tumbleweed running Kernel 4.3:
4.3.0-1-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 2 15:35:09 UTC 2015 (7b374a4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I get system freezes (generally necessitating hard reset) and impossibility to run more than one user session at a time. 
The attachments of journal and dmesg show the error message received. 
I allow myself to cc the developer of opensuse Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.com. 

This system worked well with 3.x kernels and up to 4.2 
With the current kernel I get the lockups. 
Board is an old Ashrock 939DualVsta and Graphics is Nvidia GT216 based on primary PCI-e slot of the mainboard.
Comment 1 stakanov 2015-11-15 12:14:02 UTC 
Created attachment 119681 [details]
exerpt of systemdjournal  complaining about nouveau
Comment 2 Pierre Moreau 2015-11-15 12:26:53 UTC 
(Moved to the correct product and component)

Could you please get a full dmesg output (by using netconsole if you have a second computer, or by blacklisting Nouveau, cating dmesg or /dev/kmsg to a file and then loading Nouveau manually)? Maybe your attachments are enough for Ben to figure out what is going wrong, but some more information shouldn't hurt.
Comment 3 stakanov 2015-11-15 12:41:40 UTC 
A bit embarrassing but I do not really know what to ask there. 

I think I know how to blacklist nouveau:

# echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf && mkinitrd && reboot
 
Then, if I do understand rightly: 

cat /dev/kmsg > kmsgresult.txt 

Then 

modprobe nouveau 

(from the  CLI) and then again?

cat /dev/kmsg > kmsgresult2.txt 


Is this what you need? Unfortunately my skills are quite limited, so I prefer to ask.
Comment 4 Pierre Moreau 2015-11-15 12:56:25 UTC 
(In reply to stakanov from comment #3)
> A bit embarrassing but I do not really know what to ask there. 
> 
> I think I know how to blacklist nouveau:
> 
> # echo "blacklist nouveau" >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf && mkinitrd
> && reboot

That should do it.

(In reply to stakanov from comment #3)
> Then, if I do understand rightly: 
> 
> cat /dev/kmsg > kmsgresult.txt 
> 
> Then 
> 
> modprobe nouveau 
> 
> (from the  CLI) and then again?
> 
> cat /dev/kmsg > kmsgresult2.txt 

    cat /dev/kmsg > kmsgresult.txt&
    modprobe nouveau
    startx

would be one way to go, as `cat` will continue its job until it get killed. And then when you reboot, you can access the file (which hopefully didn't end up corrupted). Maybe `journalctl -k -b -1` will contain all the information as well (given that the previous boot, was one that froze)?
Comment 5 stakanov 2015-11-16 09:39:36 UTC 
Created attachment 119699 [details]
journalctl with -k-b-1

Some more info. 
For what is the output of cat:
I do yet not understand when to blacklist nouveau.
should I just blacklist it, then start it by hand with modprobe nouveau?
Once the system freezed I cannot input anything anymore. 
So I guess I have to blacklist before and start manually? Then provoke the freeze?
Comment 6 doktor.yak 2015-12-03 20:45:13 UTC 
This bug really looks like 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92892
and seems to be linked to a modification in the nouveau driver between kernel version 4.2.4 and 4.3.0
Comment 7 Martin Peres 2019-12-04 09:06:53 UTC 
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