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Bug 1310703

Summary: X server crash and system reboot after changing screen resolution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Tomas Hudziec <thudziec>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.8CC: jkoten, tpelka
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 12:11:06 UTC Type: Bug
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log before system reboot
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Description Tomas Hudziec 2016-02-22 14:40:23 UTC
Created attachment 1129329 [details]
log before system reboot

Description of problem:
X server crashes and system reboots after changing screen resolution.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-2.3.4-1.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run gnome-display-properties
2. Change display resolution
3. Click Apply

Actual results:
X server crashes and system reboots

Expected results:
system changes display resolution

Additional info:

Comment 2 Tomas Hudziec 2016-02-22 15:27:23 UTC
graphics card: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [Quadro NVS 295]

Comment 3 Tomas Hudziec 2016-02-22 15:47:05 UTC
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.7-14.el6.x86_64

Comment 4 Tomas Hudziec 2016-02-23 15:37:11 UTC
when two monitors connected, black screen appears after this reboot after crash - system doesn't start correctly

Comment 5 Tomas Hudziec 2016-03-09 17:19:16 UTC
Driver was not vesa, but nouveau:
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.11-1.el6.x86_64

Comment 6 Tomas Pelka 2016-04-05 15:41:52 UTC
Still an issue with 1.0.12 nouveau driver, I will try to get a basktrace or coredump.

Comment 7 Tomas Pelka 2016-04-05 15:55:57 UTC
Created attachment 1143868 [details]
vmcore-dmesg

Comment 8 Tomas Pelka 2016-04-05 15:59:29 UTC
vmcore available at http://download.eng.brq.redhat.com/scratch/tpelka/nvs295-vmcore

Comment 10 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 12:11:06 UTC
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