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Draiken

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Registered: 2016-09-16

Posts: 5

Xorg freeze with nouveau errors

Updated my system a few weeks ago and have experienced now at least 5 freezes that required a hard reboot.
My screen starts to get sluggish and then it just freezes. Mouse still moves but nothing else works.

I checked the logs and found this right before the freeze:

Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 2 [007f9c4000 Xorg[549]]
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC0/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC1/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC2/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC3/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC0/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC1/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC2/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC3/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: read fault at 00098c0000 engine 00 [GR] client 0a [GPC1/T1_3] reason 02 [PTE] on channel 2 [007f9c4000 Xorg[549
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: channel 2: killed
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: runlist 0: scheduled for recovery
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: engine 0: scheduled for recovery
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: engine 7: scheduled for recovery
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Xorg[549]: channel 2 killed!
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 3 [007f4a5000 Xorg[549]]
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC0/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC1/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC2/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC3/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC0/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC1/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC2/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC3/TEX: 80000041
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: read fault at 0009402000 engine 00 [GR] client 07 [GPC1/T1_2] reason 02 [PTE] on channel 3 [007f4a5000 Xorg[549
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: channel 3: killed
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: runlist 0: scheduled for recovery
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: engine 0: scheduled for recovery
Feb 22 15:52:59 valhalla kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Xorg[549]: channel 3 killed!

Any idea on what could be causing this?
Should I just ditch nouveau and install NVIDIA's proprietary drivers?

Any help appreciated.

davidm

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Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 371

Re: Xorg freeze with nouveau errors

Which mesa version do you have installed and which GPU do you have?  There were some pretty serious bugs in some of the mesa 18.x release candidates from a few weeks ago though I see Arch is on mesa-17.3.5-1 right now.

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 519

Re: Xorg freeze with nouveau errors

You don't say what software if any that you are using when
the freeze happens. If you use a webengine browser/app/script
with nouveau then you'll need to launch it with --disable-gpu or the
graphic display will freeze. This is a nouveau bug/deficiency that has been
around for a while now, that nouveau has not fixed yet. Solution is to live
with it or change to nvidia. You can do a google search to read what the problem is.