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Description of problem: system's X frequently locks up. ssh-ing into it and looking at kernel messages shows: nouveau e[ pfifo][0000:02:00.0] still angry after 101 spins, halt This seems to be triggered most frequently by saving a LibreOffice presentation. system graphics card is: 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: happens a few times a day, especially in combination with LibreOffice Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: shouldn't lock up. Additional info:
maybe this is related to this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87244
I confirm this bug too. The exact way how to reproduce is to pick text ending with link to the clipboard from the libreoffice.org. My graphic card is 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2).
The bug is present also in the Fedora 21 with latest updates. Could you, please, raise priority and severity? There are some tasks in libreoffice which cannot be done. X freezes at every attempt to do it.
It looks like this may be a duplicate of Bug 1187919 - Nouveau with Kernel 3.18.3 Hangs Completely System
and a duplicate of Bug 1189332 - LibreOffice freezes system, must hard shutoff to recover and a duplicate of Bug 1203023 - some operations in LibreOffice are causing Xorg with nouveau to crash Xorg It seems many people are hitting the Nouveau + Libreoffice crash
I just hit this again, with kernel 3.19.3-200 on F21 (it happens after just a few seconds editing a file in LibreOffice). It's pretty reproducible, any time you try to use LibreOffice, after no more than a few minutes you'll get X to freeze.
I get this freeze almost once a day, always when using Libreoffice, really bad. Kernel 3.19.5-100, F20, 64-bit. Any workaround besides replacing with nvidia driver?
Created attachment 1023105 [details] Excerpt from /var/log/messages showing the error message and subesquent Xorg messages I'm seeing this issue as well. For me this is new since I upgraded to F21. I never saw it in F20. In /var/log/messages there is first the nouveau error followed by several Xorg errors. I have attached a snippet you can check for more details. Current kernel: kernel-3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64 Video card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GL [Quadro 400] (rev a2) I saw this freeze several times when using libreoffice. I can also 100% reproduce this while using wine (actually codeweavers' cxoffice variant) running Ms Access 2000 and opening a report in there. This never happened on F20. I does make F21 unusable for this machine.
I've been experiencing this problem almost daily, and it almost always happens when I'm not at the computer. I walk away from my computer with it in a working state, come back and it's hung. Typically Chrome, pidgin, konsole and dolphin are the only user space programs running. All that shows up in /var/log/messages is May 7 13:29:49 tungsten kernel: [84596.931001] nouveau E[ PFIFO][0000:09:00.0] still angry after 101 spins, halt May 7 13:29:49 tungsten kernel: nouveau E[ PFIFO][0000:09:00.0] still angry after 101 spins, halt I have to ssh from a remote computer to reboot. Kernel: 3.19.5-200.fc21.x86_64
Note sure if it is fixed, but I was just able to use Libreoffice for about 1.5 hours without the nouveau lockup (usually it would only last for 5 minutes max). This was with kernel 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64 and libreoffice 4.3.7.2-5.fc21.x86_64
It is much better with the 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64 kernel, but I still found an PPS file which locked the X server. I upgraded to F22 today. It seems the problems are fixed there.
The lockup still happens immediately with Ms Access under wine, even with 3.19.7-200.fc21.x86_64 kernel.
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