Bug 910106 - System freezes when running firefox and tvtime during the same X session.
Summary: System freezes when running firefox and tvtime during the same X session.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-11 20:28 UTC by Bill Perkins
Modified: 2014-02-05 19:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-02-05 19:06:58 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
uname -a, lsmod, lspci, dmesg, rpm -qa and part of /var/log/messages (192.05 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-02-11 20:28 UTC, Bill Perkins
no flags Details

Description Bill Perkins 2013-02-11 20:28:31 UTC
Created attachment 696273 [details]
uname -a, lsmod, lspci, dmesg, rpm -qa and part of /var/log/messages

Description of problem: When I use Firefox and tvtime together during my X window session, with or without other programs being open, the X session will freeze.  That is the session no longer accepts keyboard or mouse input and the last screen displayed remains.  The net may also be down, if so, reboot is needed.  If not, sometimes I can recover the system, not the X session, by killing X from a ssh session on another system.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox    18.0.2-1
tvtime      1.0.2-22
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau   1.0.6-1
fvwm        2.6.5-3
mate-panel  1.5.4-1

How reproducible:
Run tvtime and firefox at the same time on different window panes and wait for the Nouveau PFIFO DMA_PUSHER and PGRAPH DATA_ERROR messages to start piling up in the messages log file.  For me on the system, this process does not take very long.  If you run tvtime or firefox with the other one NOT running, the problem does not occur.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox in one fvwm window pane.
2. Run tvtime (or a movie using vlc sometimes works) in another window pane.
3. Wait for the Nouveau PFIFO DMA_PUSHER and PGRAPH DATA_ERROR messages in /var/log/messages.  Session and system may take some minutes to actually freeze up.
  
Actual results:
X window session will freeze with unresponsive keyboard and mouse.  Network may also stop requiring a reboot.  If network is still up, a ssh session from another system can be used to kill the X program without requiring the reboot.

Expected results:
To have firefox and tvtime (or vlc) to operate normally without the freezing and Nouveau error entries in the /var/log/messages file.


Additional info: Attachments are included with: uname -a, lsmod, lspci, dmesg, rpm -qa and the last set of nouveau crash entries from /var/log/messages.

Comment 1 Bill Perkins 2013-02-28 22:23:22 UTC
I have updated the system to the latest kernel: 3.7.9-205.fc18.x86_64, and several of the xorg packages have been updated as well: 1.13.2-4.fc18.x86_64 This issue appears to no longer be a problem as of this date.

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