xorg crashes (nvidia 180.51)

[Arthur]

Binary package hint: xorg

xorg freezes for a few seconds, then gets restarted - dropping back to the gdm login prompt
syslog has:
Jun 2 16:24:22 aetna gdm[7812]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old finishes with
miPointerUpdateSprite: Invalid input device pointer
miPointerConstrainCursor: Invalid input device pointer

Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4f1b66]
1: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x41) [0x485a61]
2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f3a1ca84040]
3: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x4db22a]
4: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(miPointerSetPosition+0x136) [0x4db3b6]
5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(GetPointerEvents+0x470) [0x4616b0]
6: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEventP+0xa9) [0x4964e9]
7: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86PostMotionEvent+0xb1) [0x4966f1]
8: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so [0x7f3a08398972]
9: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x485be5]
10: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x476f77]
11: /lib/libpthread.so.0 [0x7f3a1e71d080]
12: /lib/libc.so.6(__select+0x13) [0x7f3a1cb2f6f3]
13: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(WaitForSomething+0x1db) [0x4ef5db]
14: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(Dispatch+0x80) [0x44e020]
15: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x3bd) [0x433d8d]
16: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x7f3a1ca6f5a6]
17: /usr/X11R6/bin/X [0x433219]
Saw signal 11. Server aborting.
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Microsoft Natural? Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Microsoft Natural? Ergonomic Keyboard 4000: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Video Bus: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Logitech Trackball: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Screen 0 shares mem & io resources
(II) Screen 1 shares mem & io resources
 ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log

the only errors and warnings in Xorg.log are
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
(WW) Disabling Keyboard0
(WW) Disabling Mouse0
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module freetype
(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-12-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #43-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 1 19:31:32 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic x86_64
Xrandr:

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30f7]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9200M GS [10de:06e8] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30f7]

[Tom Metro (tmetro+ubuntu)]

I saw the same symptoms with 180.44-0ubuntu1 on 9.04:

daemon.log:Jun 1 15:39:18 fringe gdm[3199]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

But nothing unusual in Xorg.0.log*.

Perhaps resolved in the 180.60 version, which someone commented in Bug #355155 resolved a crash problem.

[Arthur (arthurb)]

Same thing has happened again today.
Jun 5 12:04:04 aetna gdm[3723]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

I don't have the x log any more

I've updated to
nvidia id: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.60 Mon May 11 15:27:42 PDT 2009
from the nvidia website, using NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.60-pkg2.run

[Arthur (arthurb)]

Similar crash again just now. No GDM log this time, just an X crash followed by GDM restarting.
From login to crash was ~15 minutes.

arthurb@aetna:~$ uname -a
Linux aetna 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
arthurb@aetna:~$ strings /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko | grep ^nvidia\ id
nvidia id: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 180.60 Mon May 11 15:27:42 PDT 2009

Twinview with compositing enabled, if that helps. Xorg.0.log.old is attached.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Tom Metro (tmetro+ubuntu)]

After updating to 185.18.14 I still experienced a crash.

kernel log:

NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00001b0c 1000f010 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00001310 00000000 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00000f04 00000000 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00000f04 00000000 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00000f04 00000000 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00000f04 00000000 00000040
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 13, 0003 00000000 00008297 00000f04 00000000 00000040
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 170856 nsec
CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 256284 nsec

And:
# fgrep gdm_slave_xioerror_handler daemon.log
Jun 29 01:49:30 fringe gdm[3226]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

Worked fine before upgrading to Jaunty.

[Frodon (frodon)]

Yep, same issue here.

It seems to happen only when playing with open office but i had the same kind of issue with intrepid on my previous computer with completely different hardware and the way to reproduce the crash was just to use gdesklet or system monitor.
So, this is not a major issue for me as X don't crash often but for some other users it's a real nightmare.

I have to say that this bug is the most annoying and frustrating i've ever had with linux as the message in the log just tells nothing about the root cause and we have had this issue with every ubunbu release.
This is the only reason why in my mind linux is a bit less stable than other OS, X souldn't crash like that without giving useful info about the root cause of the crash, this is just frustrating.

Hope something can be done to enhance the log with useful infos when X crash.

[hkais (r-2)]

Same issues here....
More details under Bug #412113