nouveau driver frequently freezing / crashing kernel on fresh 20.04 install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hello,
I'm experiencing frequent crashes that hard-lock the system and kernel completely.
Symptoms are:
- Frozen screen
- No Keyboard or Mouse input accepted
- Remote SSH times out as if system is not responding
- Kernel does not respond to the "Alt + SysRq + REISUB" key sequence to force a reboot. (kernel was compiled with CONFIG_
I tracked down the issue to the nouveau driver (see attached journalctl logs for crash dump)
The primary and only PCI Video card in the system is quite old and thus should be well supported:
- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2)
lshw output:
$ sudo lshw -class display
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GT215 [GeForce GT 240]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:166 memory:
tags: | added: amd64 |
tags: | added: focal |