XOrg freezes completely

ArchIsCool · 2014-10-07 09:09:27

Hello everybody,

since a few days my new notebook is not working properly anymore (propably after a system update).

During useage suddenly X freezes. Most of the time when this happens, you can't move the mouse anymore, but somtimes you can.
However the error most likely occurs when flash is in use, but also sometimes without flash running.
When there was music on at the time of the error there's still a loop of the last one second played, like a hanging record.

Last time my system froze with the mouse still active (i actuallly don't know if thats the same error at all), it was still reachable for a short time via SSH and at the next boot there was written into Xorg.0.log.old:

(EE) [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed.
(EE)
(EE) Backtrace:
(EE) 0: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (xorg_backtrace+0x56) [0x593a46]
(EE) 1: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (mieqEnqueue+0x24b) [0x574c2b]
(EE) 2: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (QueuePointerEvents+0x52) [0x44f092]
(EE) 3: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (xf86PostMotionEvent+0xd6) [0x485ee6]
(EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so (0x7f793d3de000+0x5308) [0x7f793d3e3308]
(EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so (0x7f793d3de000+0x7492) [0x7f793d3e5492]
(EE) 6: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x75888) [0x475888]
(EE) 7: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0xa05f7) [0x4a05f7]
(EE) 8: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f79486b9000+0x339f0) [0x7f79486ec9f0]
(EE) 9: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x7) [0x7f7948799c07]
(EE) 10: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x28) [0x7f794985b9d8]
(EE) 11: /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWrite+0x1b) [0x7f794985e39b]
(EE) 12: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x4b0ae4) [0x7f7941f4dae4]
(EE) 13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x4b1f22) [0x7f7941f4ef22]
(EE) 14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x4c2591) [0x7f7941f5f591]
(EE) 15: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x1c04d9) [0x7f7941c5d4d9]
(EE) 16: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x141710) [0x7f7941bde710]
(EE) 17: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x1c2905) [0x7f7941c5f905]
(EE) 18: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x142824) [0x7f7941bdf824]
(EE) 19: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so (0x7f7941a9d000+0x142a82) [0x7f7941bdfa82]
(EE) 20: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so (0x7f7943169000+0x22dac) [0x7f794318bdac]
(EE) 21: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so (0x7f7943169000+0x14355) [0x7f794317d355]
(EE) 22: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so (0x7f7943169000+0x1472c) [0x7f794317d72c]
(EE) 23: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x1841a8) [0x5841a8]
(EE) 24: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0xc796a) [0x4c796a]
(EE) 25: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x3487b) [0x43487b]
(EE) 26: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x376d7) [0x4376d7]
(EE) 27: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x3b866) [0x43b866]
(EE) 28: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7f79486d9040]
(EE) 29: /usr/bin/Xorg.bin (0x400000+0x25d0e) [0x425d0e]
(EE)
(EE) [mi] These backtraces from mieqEnqueue may point to a culprit higher up the stack.
(EE) [mi] mieq is *NOT* the cause. It is a victim.
(EE) [mi] EQ overflow continuing. 100 events have been dropped.

When the system freezes with unmoveable mouse, there's no backtrace in Xorg's log.

Do you have any idea what could cause this issue?

Last edited by ArchIsCool (2014-10-07 09:29:52)

Trilby · 2014-10-07 12:26:50

What video driver do you use? This does remind me a bit of an old nvidia bug. If you use nvidia can you try out the nv or nouveau (or whichever the recommended OS driver is now) at least for diagnostic purposes?

ArchIsCool · 2014-10-07 14:15:31

There was indeed a similar nvidia bug, but i use xf86-video-ati

denis_M · 2014-10-18 20:26:20

Any follow up on this bug?
I have the exact same problem with my computer. I have ATI RADEON-HD 7770 using xf86-video-ati driver.

Irene · 2014-10-19 15:00:59

denis_M wrote:

Any follow up on this bug?
I have the exact same problem with my computer. I have ATI RADEON-HD 7770 using xf86-video-ati driver.

Exact same problem with exact same card and driver here.

MrG0z · 2014-10-19 15:55:53

Hello,

I've the same problem since few days. I've tried to switch to the lts kernel, switch to the xf86-video-ati git version and the problem is still present.
I've an AMD Radeon HD 7950.

Last edited by MrG0z (2014-10-19 15:58:19)

ArchIsCool · 2014-10-23 18:55:05

So at least now i know it's not my PC that is broken...

Does really no one have any idea what to do with this problem? It's quite frustrating.

Who can i contact? Where could I report this bug?

kokoko3k · 2014-10-23 19:00:41

I don't want to add noises here, but i'm having freezes too, but with nvidia blob.
I don't even know if it is xorg related in my case, because the pc won't even answer to pings and
the keyboard leds blink by there own (kernel panic).
This seems to happen completely random.

Trilby · 2014-10-23 19:05:19

If this is a bug in the ati drivers, it can be reported on the bugtracker at freedesktop.org.

kokoko3k, that seems like a very different issue, as the others in this thread are on ati and you are on nvidia. Note though that I originally thought this looked like an old nvidia issue - you might want to look up those nvidia theads and/or try the open source driver(s) to confirm whether it is an issue with nvidia.

borisbsc · 2014-10-25 00:12:33

Maybe try turning off dynamic power management which was fairly recently enabled by default. To turn it off add 'radeon.dpm=0' to kernel params. It solved my freezing issue with the open-source radeon driver, only I was getting lockups even before X started.

Last edited by borisbsc (2014-10-25 00:14:04)

pollopolis · 2014-10-25 20:26:21

I have a radeon 7770 and use the free driver, and I had the same problem when I upgraded to kernel 3.16 and it is still present in 3.17. I'm currently using 3.15.8-1 without issues.

Has anybody tried disabling DPM?

pollopolis · 2014-10-28 20:23:09

I tried disabling DPM with the 3.17.1 kernel, it doesn't work.

MrG0z · 2014-11-04 20:06:09

'radeon.dpm=0' seems to have worked on my machine when I use the LTS kernel, thanks!

Last edited by MrG0z (2014-11-08 15:29:24)

ArchIsCool · 2014-11-18 23:06:44

Neither setting 'radeon.dpm=0' nor downgrading to kernel 3.15 solve my problem.

drcouzelis · 2014-11-19 01:50:45

@ArchIsCool
Are you experiencing this bug?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190009

Or possibly this one?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=188503

Too many bugs.

ArchIsCool · 2014-11-19 10:51:43

Thanks for answering drcouzelis.

But I don't think that my freezes are related to these threads.
My freezes happen suddenly during usage, not on login. And the screen doesn't go black but the computer is not responding.

Since I'm using Xfce instead of KDE the freezes happen much less frequent and mostly only after a few hours of usage.

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XOrg freezes completely

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