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mueslo

Member

Registered: 2011-10-15

Posts: 28

Nvidia crashes

Hey there,

I've started getting system freezes when in KDE. I'm on a laptop (Thinkpad T510), the graphics card is a NVS Quadro 3100M. Graphics driver and kernel are up to date. These occur at seemingly random times. The system worked fine as of 2012-12-14 (Didn't use it again until today).

It could also be a hardware error, Windows also has pretty weird issues on this machine, no current driver works there, only one from over a year ago. The one that works also has occasional "the driver stopped working".

This is what everything.log contains

Dec 24 02:47:59 localhost kernel: [ 2131.927724] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.
Dec 24 02:47:59 localhost kernel: [ 2131.927789] NVRM: os_pci_init_handle: invalid context!
Dec 24 02:47:59 localhost kernel: [ 2131.927792] NVRM: os_pci_init_handle: invalid context!

And here is the appropriate part of the Xorg.0.log:

[  2137.146] (EE) 
[  2137.146] (EE) Backtrace:
[  2137.185] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x58a426]
[  2137.185] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x18e279) [0x58e279]
[  2137.185] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7ff1c4967000+0xf1a0) [0x7ff1c49761a0]
[  2137.185] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff1bee99000+0xedd67) [0x7ff1bef86d67]
[  2137.185] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff1bee99000+0xf3572) [0x7ff1bef8c572]
[  2137.185] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff1bee99000+0x53ef42) [0x7ff1bf3d7f42]
[  2137.185] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff1bee99000+0x53f885) [0x7ff1bf3d8885]
[  2137.185] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so (0x7ff1bee99000+0x53fa2d) [0x7ff1bf3d8a2d]
[  2137.185] (EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x11730d) [0x51730d]
[  2137.186] (EE) 9: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd442f) [0x4d442f]
[  2137.186] (EE) 10: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xd5505) [0x4d5505]
[  2137.186] (EE) 11: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x37e61) [0x437e61]
[  2137.186] (EE) 12: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2696a) [0x42696a]
[  2137.186] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf5) [0x7ff1c35f5725]
[  2137.186] (EE) 14: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26cad) [0x426cad]
[  2137.186] (EE) 
[  2137.186] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x7ff1c563f000
[  2137.186] 
Fatal server error:
[  2137.186] Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  2137.186] 
[  2137.186] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
         at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  2137.186] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  2137.186] (EE) 
[  2137.188] (II) evdev: Power Button: Close
[  2137.188] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.193] (II) evdev: Video Bus: Close
[  2137.194] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.194] (II) evdev: Sleep Button: Close
[  2137.194] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.195] (II) evdev: Integrated Camera: Close
[  2137.195] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.195] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
[  2137.196] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.198] (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
[  2137.199] (II) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Close
[  2137.199] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2137.201] (II) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Close
[  2137.201] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[  2148.205] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000dd30, 0x0001402c)
[  2155.205] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000dd30, 0x0001402c)
[  2158.206] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (2, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000dd30, 0x0001403c)
[  2165.206] (WW) NVIDIA(0): WAIT (1, 6, 0x8000, 0x0000dd30, 0x0001403c)

Any help is appreciated,
thanks!

Last edited by mueslo (2012-12-24 02:53:26)

runny6play

Member

Registered: 2012-02-18

Posts: 85

Re: Nvidia crashes

try the open source driver and see what happens. It's worth a try so that you may distigush weather it's a hardware or software problem. You might also want to do some performance tests in windows, and push your card. to see if it keeps from crashing and is performing as it should

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: Nvidia crashes

Dec 24 02:47:59 localhost kernel: [ 2131.927724] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0 has fallen off the bus.

Often, this is a sign of failing hardware.

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sxe

Member

Registered: 2009-06-04

Posts: 103

Re: Nvidia crashes

sry, i have not much to add to help you but i have a similar problem.

My computer freezes and shows the exact same error you posted. Sometimes it happens directly after the boot process is finished and the full desktop (KDE) is visible but it happens nearly every time when i play a game.

Anyway, so far it only happens with the linux-ck kernel. The stock kernel works fine. (linux-ck uses the 3.7 already maybe thats the problem).

Maybe you could try an other kernel and see if that changes anything.

*edit:
This error seems to be a common problem and some people report that they can fix it by enabling persistence mod:

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# /usr/bin/nvidia-smi -pm 1

to verify:

# /usr/bin/nvidia-smi -q | grep -i Persistence

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Last edited by sxe (2013-01-06 17:20:24)