Bug 901405

Summary: X freezes (uses 100% CPU) after user switch
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frédéric <ufospoke>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: emmanuel.franquemagne, jglisse, pnewell0705, xgl-maint
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2013-05-01 14:20:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:11:42 UTC
Created attachment 682142 [details]
Xorg configuration file

Description of problem:

After switching user, X program takes 100% of CPU and the screen remains black.

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

Name        : xorg-x11-server-Xorg
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 1.13.1
Release     : 4.fc18
Size        : 3.3 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates

How reproducible:

Switch user. Once every 2-3 times, it will freeze during the process of creating a new session or when coming back to existing session.
  
Actual results:

Black screen, CPU at 100%, fan at max speed. Most of the time Ctrl+Alt+F[1-9] does not work and I have to hard poweroff or if I have another computer, I can connect by ssh and reboot.

Expected results:

Normal new session (kdm) created or back to existing session with login window.

Additional info:
I had the same issue with F17 and I tested it with GDM/gnome and KDM/KDE -> same result.

Comment 1 Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:13:11 UTC
Created attachment 682143 [details]
Xorg log file 1

Comment 2 Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:13:36 UTC
Created attachment 682144 [details]
Xorg log file 2

Comment 3 Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:14:37 UTC
Created attachment 682145 [details]
Xorg log file 3

Comment 4 Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:15:02 UTC
Created attachment 682146 [details]
Xorg log file 4

Comment 5 Frédéric 2013-01-18 06:16:51 UTC
Created attachment 682147 [details]
dmesg output

Comment 6 Emmanuel Franquemagne 2013-01-19 22:16:05 UTC
Have also this issue, immediately after having upgraded to F18.
After few switches or new session creation, either changing through "Change user" menu command or using CTRL+ALT+Fn shortcut, screen turns to black, system freezes (even caps & num locks lights don't react) and only solution is to hard reboot the box.
Frequency of occurence of this bug make release completely unusable in a multi-user context

Comment 7 Frédéric 2013-05-01 13:04:01 UTC
Any progress on this? Is there anything I could do to try to debug this? It is very very annoying. Any guess if this is specific to fedora or if I can swith to another distribution like kubuntu to have a stable machine?

Comment 8 Jérôme Glisse 2013-05-01 14:20:10 UTC
NVidia closed source driver, can't support we don't have the source.

Comment 9 Frédéric 2013-05-02 05:23:00 UTC
So you are sure it comes from the nvidia driver. Thanks for the comment. I have now posted to the nvidia forum.

I would like to give a new try to the nouveau driver to see if I can now suspend the computer (impossible before: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=901395). How can I remove the nvidia driver and switch to nouveau?