Bug 704998 - Crash while starting Desktop Live with GeForce GT240
Summary: Crash while starting Desktop Live with GeForce GT240
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 15
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-16 10:30 UTC by Dariusz Gadomski
Modified: 2018-04-11 17:01 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 15:34:50 UTC
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Description Dariusz Gadomski 2011-05-16 10:30:45 UTC
Description of problem:
The system crashes after starting the X server - the mouse cursor freezes, the screen contains some random images from video memory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15 beta

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start computer (with GeForce GT240 as the primary video device), setup it to boot from CD.
2. Choose to run system in normal mode (not in basic graphics mode).
3. Wait for it to finish displaying bootsplash and to start X.
  
Actual results:
System crashes displaying random video memory, mouse cursor freezes, does not react to Ctrl+Alt+Del and SysRq+B.

Expected results:
The system starts correctly and displays the desktop.

Additional info:
The behavior is exactly as in this bug reported in Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/763052
They blame the nouveau driver.

Comment 1 Elad Alfassa 2011-05-17 09:37:46 UTC
Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please add drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line, restart computer, and attach

* your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available),
* X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log)
* output of the dmesg command, and
* system log (/var/log/messages)

to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link above.

We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information.

Thanks in advance.



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Comment 2 Dariusz Gadomski 2011-05-20 11:41:25 UTC
I have added drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line. Unfortunately I have tried Fedora only as a Live DVD and after the freeze I could not get any debug information.

Is there a way (a kernel command option maybe?) to save the logs and configs from Live DVD somewhere on a mass storage device? Or maybe there is a ssh server running on the Live DVD?

When the bootsplash finishes and the X server is started I am not able to do anything:
- I cannot switch to terminals (Ctrl+Alt+<Number>),
- I cannot restart X,
- I cannot move the mouse cursor (it is not visible anywhere on the screen).

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2011-06-16 18:18:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> I have added drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line. Unfortunately I have
> tried Fedora only as a Live DVD and after the freeze I could not get any debug
> information.

Oh well (not even ssh from another computer or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the console?), we have to do then without dmesg. However, remaining files would be useful.

Comment 4 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-05 16:09:34 UTC
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. 

Unless, Matej , has anything been done for this?

Thank you.



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Comment 5 Dariusz Gadomski 2012-02-05 16:43:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > I have added drm.debug=0x04 to the kernel command line. Unfortunately I have
> > tried Fedora only as a Live DVD and after the freeze I could not get any debug
> > information.
> 
> Oh well (not even ssh from another computer or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the
> console?), we have to do then without dmesg. However, remaining files would be
> useful.

I've just re-checked this behavior and it still happens with Fedora 16 Live Desktop image. I cannot switch to console with Ctrl-Alt-F2. It is also not possible to ssh from another computer (I've used sshd=1 boot option, but according to DHCP clients log on my router the PC in question is not connected).

Is there a way to extract the files listed above from live image? I use a Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso copied with dd to a USB drive. Thanks.

Comment 6 Luigi Pardey 2012-02-05 17:03:36 UTC
> Is there a way to extract the files listed above from live image? I use a
> Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso copied with dd to a USB drive. Thanks.

I'm not quite sure. 

The files can normally be extracted from a TTY, or SSH from another computer. Generally any action that would open a command line on your machine will let you search through the filesystem and copy the files. But, as you said you're unable to do any of them, we'll have to do without them.







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