Bug 7048

Summary:	System freezes during graphical environment with nvidia card
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Michel Briet <linux.briet>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	anssi.hannula, jacques.pronchery, luigiwalser
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	x11-driver-video-nouveau-1.0.6-2.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Michel Briet 2012-08-14 01:15:12 CEST

Description of problem:

At end of graphical boot, just before starting KDE, screen gets corrupted and 
system gets frozen and does not react to any key hit.

1) If I switch to text interface at beginning of boot by pressing ESC, no freeze occurs.

2) If I hit Alt-SysRq-e during freeze, boot switches to KDE start. Everything seems OK except ethernet which is disconnected (but this may be a side effect of Alt-SysRq).

During freeze, /var/log/syslog log file is flooded with error messages like this :

localhost kernel: [   52.803636] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 2/0 Mthd 0x0200 Data 0x00000001

No errors were found in /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.5.1-desktop586-1.mga3
x11-server-xorg 1.12.3-2.mga3
x11-driver-video-nouveau 1.0.1-3.mga3
libdrm_nouveau2 2.4.38-1.mga3

How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot in graphical interface
2. Wait for freeze (just after 5th bubble over cauldron ...)
3.

Comment 1 Jacques Pronchery 2012-08-16 07:04:19 CEST

With my PC, sometime (2 per 10) Cauldron freezes on start of graphical boot.
If I use nouveau driver or nvidia it is the same.

CC: (none) => jacques.pronchery

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-08-19 11:25:36 CEST

same with the recent update ?

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3

Comment 3 Michel Briet 2012-08-20 21:56:08 CEST

Just done an update, but same problem of freeze ...

Last version-Release numbers :
3.5.2-desktop586-1.mga3
x11-server-xorg 1.12.3-2.mga3
x11-driver-video-nouveau 1.0.1-3.mga3
libdrm_nouveau2 2.4.38-1.mga3

Comment 4 Michel Briet 2012-08-21 00:56:34 CEST

Just done an update, but same problem of freeze ...

Last version-Release numbers :
3.5.2-desktop586-1.mga3
x11-server-xorg 1.12.3-2.mga3
x11-driver-video-nouveau 1.0.1-3.mga3
libdrm_nouveau2 2.4.38-1.mga3

Comment 5 David Walser 2013-09-07 07:04:07 CEST

nouveau worked just fine on Mageia 2 on my sister's desktop system, but on Mageia 3, it freezes.  It usually doesn't take using the GUI very long for it to freeze.  The screen will just suddenly corrupt in a mixed up repeating pattern (looking like it was created out of what was on the screen when it froze).  I have to use the power button to turn it off.  Unfortunately, there are no helpful error messages in any logs from when this occurs, it locks hard.

The affected system is a Dell Inspiron desktop with an AMD CPU.

DMI: Dell Inc. Inspiron 531s/0RY206, BIOS 1.0.3 06/15/2007
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
Card:NVIDIA GeForce 6100 to GeForce 7950: NVIDIA Corporation|C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] [DISPLAY_VGA] (rev: a2)

CC: (none) => anssi.hannula, luigiwalser
Version: Cauldron => 3
Target Milestone: Mageia 3 => ---
Summary: Cauldron freezes during graphical boot => System freezes during graphical environment with nvidia card
Source RPM: (none) => x11-driver-video-nouveau-1.0.6-2.mga3.src.rpm

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:45 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD