Bug 800118

Summary: X fails with any kernel while trying to use the nVidia driver
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: kevin martin <ktmdms>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
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Description kevin martin 2012-03-05 19:21:55 UTC
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Comment 1 kevin martin 2012-03-05 21:02:07 UTC
Also see this from time to time:


 kernel:[ 7164.152638] BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#2, X/2250

 kernel:[ 7164.152646]  lock: ffffffffa272bdd8, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: -1

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2012-03-05 22:05:38 UTC
[  602.338974]  [<ffffffffa23554c1>] ? nv_kern_open+0x91/0x830 [nvidia]
[  602.339035]  [<ffffffffa23554c1>] ? nv_kern_open+0x91/0x830 [nvidia]

Looks like a bug in nvidia's kernel code to me, which means it's not something we can fix.  Sorry.  You'll have to follow up with nvidia on this.

Comment 3 kevin martin 2012-03-05 23:43:02 UTC
Hmm, funny, how did I know that would be the response.  Strange how the nvidia driver(s) have been working ok up until the update I did this weekend and then, suddenly, X stops working but it's nvidia's fault (even though nothing changed on their side).  I've fallen back to using nouveau again at this point (although I still have to use noaccel on the vmlinuz line in my grub2.cfg to get the nouveau driver to work).  Sigh....