Xorg-nvidia crashes when running on Battery

[Ram Vijapurapu]

Binary package hint: xorg

This has been happening often when I unplug the powercord and try running on battery, X Crashes suddenly and comes back to gdm login screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.30 Fri Feb 25 14:34:55 PST 2011
 GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-6ubuntu4)
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 23 09:22:58 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-03-16 15:28:08.499674
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 vboxhost, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-6-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxhost, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-7-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia-current, 270.30, 2.6.38-7-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 nVidia Corporation G92 [Quadro FX 3800M] [10de:061f] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1520]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
JockeyStatus: xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8740w
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   product info: "RICOH", "Bay8Controller", "", ""
   manfid: 0x0000, 0x0000
   function: 254 (unknown)
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   3.3V 16-bit PC Card
   Subdevice 0 (function 0) bound to driver "pata_pcmcia"
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
 LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-generic root=UUID=e3fb482a-577f-4a0c-8bfd-effbf8a5d767 ro
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-19 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68CAD Ver. F.0A
dmi.board.name: 1520
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 33.2D
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Think Believe Do 2
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CADVer.F.0A:bd11/25/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPEliteBook8740w:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1520:rvrKBCVersion33.2D:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP EliteBook 8740w
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
nvidia-installer.log: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4-0ubuntu7
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu5
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6~3ubuntu11
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu6

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

When reporting X crash bugs you need to include a backtrace

[mmans (marco-telemans)]

I also have this problem on my HP Elitebook 8640w. (i7 CPU, 8Gb RAM, Nvidia Quadro FX 2800m).
When I unplug the power cable xorg restarts every couple of minutes. My laptop is useless then....
The only solution is to plugin the power cable, or completely disable acpi (acpi=off as kernel param).
I've been searching in several logfiles to find some more useful information (backtraces, errors, or something).
But I can't find anything. There's no backtrace in the xorg log.
When someone can give me a tip where to look for useful logging, I will get it and post it!

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hey ram-fieldlinx,

You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.

If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)

If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]