Created attachment 351416 [details] selected excerpts showing gdm/drm/GPU linkage Description of problem: The problem that caused me to look at the messages log, was that sometimes the dialogue to allow one to select a userid was a blank white rectangle, this has happened at least 3 times. I noticed that there were 9 stacktraces for gdm, always proceeded by "kernel: [drm] Resetting GPU" and in 8 of them had references to "pulseaudio" and "waitpid" "gdm[17958]: at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/waitpid.c:41" I will attach selected excerpts ffrom the messages log around these incidents, and then the full log. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ grep alsa saturn-20090713a | grep yum Jul 7 11:58:19 saturn yum: Installed: alsa-lib-devel-1.0.20-1.fc11.x86_64 Jul 9 00:12:33 saturn yum: Installed: alsa-lib-1.0.20-1.fc11.i586 Jul 10 15:52:00 saturn yum: Installed: alsa-lib-debuginfo-1.0.20-1.fc11.x86_64 Jul 12 09:15:04 saturn yum: Updated: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.x86_64 $ grep drm saturn-20090713a | grep yum Jul 7 11:58:24 saturn yum: Installed: libdrm-devel-2.4.6-7.fc11.x86_64 Jul 9 00:12:39 saturn yum: Installed: libdrm-2.4.6-7.fc11.i586 Jul 9 08:44:25 saturn yum: Installed: libdrm-debuginfo-2.4.6-7.fc11.x86_64 $ grep gdm saturn-20090713a | grep yum Jul 9 09:03:21 saturn yum: Installed: 1:gdm-debuginfo-2.26.1-10.fc11.x86_64 $ grep pulse saturn-20090713a | grep yum Jul 9 00:13:18 saturn yum: Installed: pulseaudio-libs-0.9.15-14.fc11.i586 Jul 9 00:13:20 saturn yum: Installed: wine-pulseaudio-1.1.23-1.fc11.i586 Jul 9 20:23:12 saturn yum: Installed: pulseaudio-debuginfo-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jul 10 09:01:20 saturn yum: Erased: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth Jul 12 09:15:04 saturn yum: Updated: alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.20-2.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:29:52 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-libs-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:30:28 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:31:20 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-libs-glib2-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:32:13 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:32:14 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-utils-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:32:20 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-module-x11-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 Jan 12 12:33:49 saturn yum: Updated: pulseaudio-module-gconf-0.9.15-14.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: ? Steps to Reproduce: 1. ? 2. 3. Actual results: stack traces Expected results: no stack traces Additional info: # uname -a Linux saturn 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.x86_64.debug #1 SMP Tue Jun 16 23:09:06 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux up to date Fedora 11 install AMD 810 quad core 64 bit 8 GB DDR3 RAM 5 * 500GB in software RAID-6 configuration ASUS M4A78T-E motherboard
Created attachment 351417 [details] full messages log Note machine was first 'successfully' installed with Fedora 11 on Monday the 6th, so the messages log is for the entire 'life' of the machine!
Created attachment 351419 [details] xorg log
I suspect that either one or both the subsequent yum updates and disabling SidePort has resolved the problem. As I have had no further problems of this type since disabling SidePort and switching to UMA in the BIOS. see bug 504427 Comment #7 ... #10
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