Xorg crash with Nvidia and newer kernels

Bug #827856 reported by Victor Stanescu
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #973096: Nvidia driver causes xorg crash. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

I have encountered a very strange problem, which I'm not sure where to file exactly.

The problem manifests on Dell notebooks (Latitude E6520 or E6510). They are using NVIDIA NVS3100m or 4200m video cards.

The problem itself is that most of the time the flash plugin crashes. Not so often, the whole firefox session crashes. Sometimes the whole X session crashes. A few times, the X session also crashed while starting Libre Office Calc.

Now, when it happens: it happens when using Ubuntu 10.10 or newer, or when using Ubuntu 10.04 with a newer kernel (2.6.35, or 2.6.38). It happens with any flash version, any firefox version, any NVidia drivers version (including the newest 280 one). I haven't tried different Libre Office versions, but this is not so relevant, as it doesn't happen so often. Most probably, the problem lies somewhere between the linux kernel, the X server and the NVidia driver, in some drawing operations.

The system is 100% stable when using 10.04 with kernel 2.6.32 (but then I have to compile some e1000e drivers by hand, and bluetooth is not 100% working on this hardware).

I am not sure what kind of data to further collect, but I will provide whatever you need in order to identify and fix the bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-34.73-generic-pae 2.6.32.44+drm33.19
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 17 10:59:28 2011
DkmsStatus:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6520
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-34-generic-pae root=UUID=5d0d1a73-b280-4968-91af-ca8e4822bdbb ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1920x1080-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg crash
dmi.bios.date: 05/24/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: 0J4TFW
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd05/24/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6520:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0J4TFW:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6520
dmi.product.version: 01
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-34-generic-pae

Revision history for this message
Victor Stanescu (victor-stanescu) wrote :
bugbot (bugbot)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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