Bug 691135

Summary: X server restarts itself periodically
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rich Mattes <richmattes>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Rich Mattes 2011-03-27 00:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 487973 [details]
Xorg.0.log for the X session that crashed

Description of problem:
I've been encountering X crashes associated with Nouveau's 2D acceleration and read in a bug report that the workaround was to add "nouveau.noaccel=1" to the kernel bootargs.  I did so, and the full freezes of X stopped happening.  Unfortunaely a new problem cropped up: every once in a while, X restarts and takes me back to GDM as if I had hit ctrl+alt+backspace.  The only output I can find is in Xorg.0.log.old after I log in again:

Fatal server error:
[  5793.654] Wrong event type 0.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-24.20110324git8378443.fc15.x86_64


How reproducible:
I can't tie it to anything I'm doing specifically, it just happens every now and again.  Once when I ran "make" on a project, once when I tried to highlight text in Firefox.  

Heck, it happened as I was typing this bug report (thank $DEITY for Firefox's crash session recovery)  All I had open was Firefox and a gnome-terminal to run rpm -q in.

Actual results:
Lots of X restarts

Expected results:
No X restarts

Comment 1 Rich Mattes 2011-03-27 06:00:15 UTC
Forgot to add, the card in question is a NVS3100:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

Comment 2 Ben Skeggs 2011-03-27 22:17:47 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688693 ***