complete system lockup in multiple applications

[Virgil Anderson]

Similar to 503867 but this regularly happens in most other applications i use (OO, software update, chronium, thunderbird, etc ...) does not seem to be application specific at all.

complete system lockup usually after several minutes, sometimes an hour of usage. Did not happen before upgrade to Lucid ... happens regularly since ... looks like maybe X gets too tightly linked to the kernel ... can't do ALT-CNTL-F<1-7> to get it back. I have not seen the problem in the virtual consoles (ALT-CNTL-F1, etc)... has happened in most applications i use regularly under the KDE interface by now.

Acts like a kernel panic except there is no output - have to turn off the power to get it back.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 22 19:12:49 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog:
 Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log'] failed with exit code 1: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
 QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /mnt/UP2/home/virgil/.config/ibus/bus
 Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
 IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
 cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log: No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: 00101180 9795C 15150100000505
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=49c8b903-4f2e-4bec-b0c6-21c76c9a9534 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 11/20/2000
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
dmi.bios.version: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
dmi.board.name: HP WMTA System Board
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 123
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 6
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: HP Package
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:bd11/20/2000:svn001011809795C:pn15150100000505:pvr30:rvnHewlett-Packard:rnHPWMTASystemBoard:rvr123:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct6:cvrHPPackage:
dmi.product.name: 15150100000505
dmi.product.version: 30
dmi.sys.vendor: 00101180 9795C
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Virgil Anderson (vda-earthlink)]

adding kdm.log

[Toni Helenius (toni-helenius)]

I get similar effects in Kubuntu 10.10. Random lock down. But I should probably mention that I went ahead and installed the experimental mesa package as well to get the 3D support.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Likely this bug is something in the linux kernel's nouveau drm driver. If that's true, then booting a newer version of the kernel might resolve it. Has anyone tested if this issue still exists with Lucid 10.04.4?

As we're on the cusp of the next LTS release, it would be worth testing if this issue exists in the 12.04 beta. This can be checked using a USB live image. You can get it at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/, and use USB Disk Creator to make a boot drive. Please update this bug report once you've tested. (If you've already tested any version of ubuntu newer than Lucid and already know it works, that's sufficient testing, just mention that here.)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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