Bug 534141

Summary: Xserver with nouveau driver crashes at startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: André Auzi <aauzi>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 14CC: aauzi, airlied, baldur, bskeggs, mcepl, xgl-maint
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Triaged
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: card_NV4E
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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 21:48:46 UTC Type: ---
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Description Flags
xorg.conf + Xorg.0.log + gdb backtrace + dmesg drm messages
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Smolt profile
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Xorg.?.log files obtained with xorg.conf removed
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dmesg obtained with xorg.conf removed
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log files actualization with F14 beta none

Description André Auzi 2009-11-10 17:53:23 UTC
Created attachment 368446 [details]
xorg.conf + Xorg.0.log + gdb backtrace + dmesg drm messages

Description of problem:

Xserver (x86_64) with "nouveau" driver crashes at startup, driver "vesa" works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64             1:0.0.15-17.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12


How reproducible:

systematic

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot the system
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

CapsLock LED flashes and in the same time the screen remains black

Expected results:

The gdm logon screen should appear.


Additional info:

a- Hardware configuration:

ASUS M2NPV-VM Mother board
Hanns-G HX191D Monitor plugged on the VGA connector of the mother board

$ lspci | grep VGA
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2)
$ lspci -v
...
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51PV [GeForce 6150] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A8N-VM CSM
	Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
	Memory at f7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
	Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at c0000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb
...


b- Software versions:

kernel.x86_64                           2.6.31.5-127.fc12

xorg-x11-drivers.x86_64                 7.3-13.fc12
xorg-x11-drv-vesa.x86_64                2.2.1-1.fc12
xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64             1.7.1-7.fc12
xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64           1.7.1-7.fc12

c- Attached files:

xorg.conf
Xorg.0.log
gdb backtrace : Xdbg.log
drm messages from dmesg: dmesg-drm.log

Comment 1 André Auzi 2009-11-16 21:03:18 UTC
Created attachment 369783 [details]
Smolt profile

Comment 2 André Auzi 2009-11-16 21:12:07 UTC
Created attachment 369787 [details]
Xorg.?.log files obtained with xorg.conf removed

Comment 3 André Auzi 2009-11-16 21:13:18 UTC
Created attachment 369788 [details]
dmesg obtained with xorg.conf removed

Comment 4 André Auzi 2009-11-16 21:19:12 UTC
Well, that may seem a lot of attachments but I realized, reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging#Information_to_include_in_your_report, that they were required.

Just let me know if anything else can be useful.

Regards,
A

Comment 5 Matěj Cepl 2009-11-16 23:09:05 UTC
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49e8d8]
1: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x619c9) [0x4619c9]
2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x324a000000+0xefa0) [0x324a00efa0]
3: /usr/bin/Xorg (xf86InitViewport+0x4b) [0x51df9b]
4: /usr/bin/Xorg (InitOutput+0xb23) [0x470143]
5: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x21b5a) [0x421b5a]
6: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x324981eb1d]
7: /usr/bin/Xorg (0x400000+0x218a9) [0x4218a9]
Segmentation fault at address 0x24

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

Comment 6 Piotr Drąg 2010-02-11 02:50:56 UTC
It looks exactly like my bug #558138, stack trace is identical. Is it a duplicate? Is there anything I can do to help fixing this issue?

Comment 7 Piotr Drąg 2010-02-18 01:43:15 UTC
Sorry for the comment above, it is wrong.

Comment 8 André Auzi 2010-10-08 16:05:01 UTC
Created attachment 452374 [details]
log files actualization with F14 beta

Hi there,

I've retested this with F14 beta.

The drm modeset still does not work but the bug seems fixed within the X server itself.

Xorg.0.log says:
[   106.937] Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 norhgb quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=fr-latin9 nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
[   106.938] Build Date: 05 October 2010  05:38:22PM
[   106.938] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.9.0-13.fc14 
...
[   119.523] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[   119.523] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev

My configuration settings are then used (and work ;) )

It's good to see the driver nouveau back in the box.

Cheers
A

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Comment 10 Dietmar Kling 2011-04-24 07:30:34 UTC
The noveau driver for the card mentioned above also crashes in Fedora 15 
when starting scan for Partitions most times, sometimes after that. 

Use the alternative "standard video driver" works.

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