Kubuntu 13.04 raring freezes - nouveau GPU lockup

[Surak]

AFter using Kubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04, in live-DVD or live-pendrive, after an unpredictable time KDE seems to freeze.

When I open another screen with Ctrl+Alt+F4 and do a sudo su to login as root and go back to Ctrl+Alt+F7, prior to freezing, when KDE freezes, it is possible to change again to this Ctrl+Alt+F4 screen to see the following error message:

[518.188774] nouveau E-[ DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

This didn't happen in previous Kubuntu versions, probably because they were not using nouveau.

After several times trying to install Kubuntu raring, with the live-pendrive, for some reason the live-pendrive booted using the proprietary driver (I saw the nVidia logo before it loaded KDE). This allowed me to install 13.04, but after installation and boot, there was nouveau again with the same freezing problem. Luckily, one of the times I rebooted, I managed to change to proprietary nVidia driver using "Additional Drivers" before another freeze and the problem was solved after reboot.

My hardware:

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b3)
00:03.1 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 SATA controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 AHCI Controller (rev b1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9200M G] (rev b1)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)

(in fact, it is supposed to be GeForce 8200M, not 9200M as reported)

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Hope this may help Kubuntu develpment. Thanks in advance.

[Dan Smith (mrplowdan)]

Created attachment 38944
Xorg log

I've never been able to get nouveau to run with my 8400GS, using the newest daily build of ubuntu maverick during boot from USB the slash screen looks good in the proper resolution the loading gdm it freezes with a garbled screen with what looks like what was saved in the video ram, my normal background all spliced up with random screens and web pages. I was able to switch to a virtual console and copied the log files to the USB stick. SysRq-REISUB worked.

Current Operating System: Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:32:27 UTC 2010 x86_64
X.Org X Server 1.9.0
Release Date: 2010-08-20

[Dan Smith (mrplowdan)]

Created attachment 38945
syslog

[Dan Smith (mrplowdan)]

Created attachment 38946
dmesg

[Dan Smith (mrplowdan)]

After thinking about it I'm bumping this to critical, this is a show stopper for anyone with the same hardware configuration as it happens in all previous fedora live cds as well. Anyone booting to a garbled screen for the first time trying Linux isn't going to be a fan. I'm trying the newest fedora release soon.

[Dan Smith (mrplowdan)]

running the latest daily fedora live cd desktop-x86_64-20100924.16.iso it freezes hard lockup

t2
mount used greatest stack depth: 5680 bytes left
dracut: dracut-006-2.fc14
dracut: rd_NO_LUKS: removing cryptoluks activation
dracut: root was live:/dev/disk/by-uuid/0036-3339, liveroot is now live:UUID=0036-3339
udev[74]: starting version 161
udevadm used greatest stack depth: 5648 bytes left
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
  alloc irq_desc for 24 on node -1
  alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 24 (level, low) -> IRQ 24
nouveau 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
do_IRQ: 0.68 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x298200a2)
[drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
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[Martin-peres (martin-peres)]

My nv98 work well now. I guess the bug has been fixed.