Xorg freezes because of nvidia-driver

[Johannes Wienke]

This bug is hardly reproduceable. When turning on my system it normally freezes one or more times in the first few minutes. That means, that X11 doesn't respond anymore. The last thing working is the mouse. I can't switch to any text-console or do anything. Without another computer I would have to use the reset button. But most times I can connect to that system via ssh. There you can notice Xorg uses 100% of the CPU. Xorg.0.log says:

(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009f70, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009f94, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009f94, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009fb8, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009fb8, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009fdc, 0)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 7, 0x8000, 0x0000a000, 0x00009fdc, 0)

When I kill Xorg everything works fine, again. Interresting is that this only occurs in the first 15 or 20 minutes of the uptime. After this time the system works stable.

[Harti (tharti)]

I can confirm that. On my parents computer with nvidia-glx the desktop freezes, but the mouse are still running. Its in gnome and xfce. Xorg use 100% of CPU. Nothing (ctrl+alt+backspace or delete, switch to console) help. Only reset- or power button help. When I kill Xorg via ssh, the screen on the computer are colored stripes and goes not to the console. i must gdm restart, then i can login. I change the driver to "nv". my parents want work without any freezes...

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

On which nvidia graphics card does this happen?

If it's a nvidia bug, we hardly can do anything, because the nvidia driver is closed source.

(You could ask also there: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14).

[Harti (tharti)]

XFX GeForce 6200

[Johannes Wienke (languitar)]

nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)

[Johannes Wienke (languitar)]

Well, this is only a guess, but could it be possible that this bug has got something to to with adept updater. I've just observed the last few days that everytime my system freezes, the first thing I notice is the adep updater icon, which wasn't there before.

[Harti (tharti)]

I don´t know, but i think its a bug in nvidia-driver.
On my parents computer i have a customized xfce, and a customized gnome with own install-script and i have no adept or update-manager installed.

[Stefano Caccavari (stc)]

I can confirm that.
I have this: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (128mb).
and i use: nvidia-glx-legacy driver, and nv driver

[Johan Walles (walles)]

I get similar symptoms, but I get messages like this in my kern.log, anybody seen these *at the same time* as the WAIT messages mentioned above?:

kern.log:Feb 6 10:04:53 localhost kernel: [17617098.708000] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 0480 ff1076ff 0000f304 ff2299ff ff0055ff
kern.log:Feb 7 08:28:54 localhost kernel: [17697732.116000] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 6, PE0000 041c ff0055ff 0000fdbc ff2299ff ff2299ff

See also bug 83704, which may or may not be a duplicate of this one.

[Antonio Riva (antonio-riva)]

I confirm the bug with: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420] (rev a3)

I'm on feisty: the problems seem to be started when i upgraded the system and i need to switch from nvidia-glx to nvidia-glx-legacy (1.0.9755+2.6.20.4-13.12).

[Cameron Gorrie (sastraxi)]

This bug happens for me as well on Feisty.
Started happening right after a system update switched me over from nvidia-glx to nvidia-glx-legacy, like Antonio stated. Using the nv driver instead of nvidia provides unlimited use of my machine without any instability. With the nvidia driver from nvidia-glx-legacy, a crash happens without fail in the first 1-5 mintues of use.

nVidia GeForce4 MX 440, AGP. Athlon XP 2000+, KT333 chipset.

[Antonio Riva (antonio-riva)]

I solved installing the nvidia driver from the nvidia installer (I used the lastest usable non-legacy driver). Be sure to delete all the nvidia related package and the linux-restrincted-module-(generic i386 ...) I think that the previews problem is that the legacy driver is too old!

[thicot (tcoton)]

My system freeze too with a nvidia Geforce 7500 LE ( Asustek ). I have test all accelerated drivers and the only way to no freeze is booting with particular parameters and disabling use of enhanced cpu instruction set of nvidia-settings.

Reproduce the freeze is simple on my computer Fujitsu Scaleo Pa 1514-P4202 with Asustek M2R-FVM motherboard amd64x2 4200+ :

Install Feisty Fawn, install nvidia-glx with restricted drivers menu and reboot, system freeze without 5 minutes or test all screensaver, system freeze at the middle of the screensaver list.

I'm running yet nvidia-9762 drivers.

[mikko (mikko-)]

Option "NvAGP" "0"

in xorg.conf fixed the problem in my machine. No freezes for three weeks. But this works only with AGP cards, I think.

and maybe
Option "NvAGP" "1"
could be faster. I haven't tried yet.

[thicot (tcoton)]

Nvidia Geforce 7500 LE is PCI-e card... it does not use AGP ! no ?

[thicot (tcoton)]

The only one trace that i have is in attachement if it can help!

[DrewM (drew-middlesworth)]

Is there any plans on patching the Dapper LTS? This is a pretty harsh bug that bites a lot of people.

[thicot (tcoton)]

I,

i have solved my problem using a patch of official nvidia driver without any crash belong 2 months.

I'm using http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html version 100.14.11 with patch at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1325093&postcount=100

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Not going to be updated for edgy, but reassigning against dapper just in case.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

8.04 is out, so there's practically no chance this will get fixed for dapper. Closing.