totem crashing inside nouveau DRI when replaying video (actually nouveau bug?)

[Jonathan Kamens]

When I try to play a video with totem it either crashes or hangs my display (mouse cursor still moves but nothing else works and I have to reboot). The crash is inside nouveau drivers, so this may be a nouveau bug rather than a totem bug. I can't report it with ubuntu-bug because of bug 1983481. I did manage to capture a stack trace with gdb, which I've attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: totem 42.0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-43.46-generic 5.15.39
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 3 10:43:36 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (1308 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
LogAlsaMixer:
 Simple mixer control 'Line',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 15
   Mono: Capture 15 [100%] [15.00dB] [on]
SourcePackage: totem
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-02-20 (163 days ago)
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (1309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
LogAlsaMixer:
 Simple mixer control 'Line',0
   Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
   Capture channels: Mono
   Limits: Capture 0 - 15
   Mono: Capture 15 [100%] [15.00dB] [on]
Package: totem 42.0-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-43.46-generic 5.15.39
Tags: jammy
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-43-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-02-20 (163 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users vboxusers wireshark
_MarkForUpload: True
modified.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2022-08-03T12:55:49.044540

[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

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[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

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[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

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[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1497593, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

That's a very old problem with nouveau... I would recommend opening the Additional Drivers app and installing a proprietary Nvidia driver instead.

[Jonathan Kamens (jik)]

Welp, I had disabled the proprietary nvidia driver because I use a DisplayLink hub and DisplayLink was really unhappy about nvidia, but I just tried it again with the current nvidia driver and it appears to be working at least for the time being, so I'll stick with that for a while and we'll see what happens. :shrug: