Weird crash

patogen · 2008-05-11 09:07:49

I'm having some very very weird problems. What happens is that I'm sitting in front of my computer and suddenly the screen goes blank and says "Out of range" (as if it doesn't receive a signal from the graphics card). At this point the keyboard stops working as well, but the computer is still running since music is still playing and it responds to ping. However I cannot ssh in anymore, but remaining sessions keep on running. I can see no real pattern in when it happens, it seems to be random. I've tried looking in /var/log to find any information, but without any success. I'm not sure what information is needed for this, the system is up to date, it's the i686 version and here are some info:

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV570 [Radeon X1950 Pro]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV570 [Radeon X1950 Pro] (secondary)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
05:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14)

xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
#
#
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
# FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"

# This loads the DBE extension module.
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
# This loads the font modules
# Load "type1"
# This loads the GLX module
# Load "glx"
# This loads the DRI module
# Load "dri"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection
Load "freetype"
# Load "xtt"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option    "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option    "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option    "XkbLayout" "se"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAXisMapping" "4 5"
Option "ButtonMaapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
Identifier "My Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 82.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
Option    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "true"
EndSection

I'm running the catalyst drivers. I'm not 100% sure when it started to become this way, the odd thing is that the computer is stable in windows. No crashes or anything and memtest runs without any problems. It's not an heat issue since my temperatures are < 40 degrees C. I'm sorry for the lack of information, but simple since I don't know what information is useful ...

The computer was stable before and I'm not sure when it started behaving this way.

Edit: Got the tip on irc to use noacpi as a boot flag in grub, however this doesn't solve the problem.

Last edited by patogen (2008-05-11 10:33:11)

daf666 · 2008-05-12 18:35:13

I would first change the driver to an alternate one, and work for a while to see if that is the cause.

patogen · 2008-05-12 23:56:08

daf666 wrote:

I would first change the driver to an alternate one, and work for a while to see if that is the cause.

I've tried using vesa for a while now, and it doesn't crash now. However it's impossible to play videos and that sort of stuff with vesa .... it simply doesn't work as well as it should. So, should I maybe try using testing repo the get a later catalyst driver to see if it solves the problem?

patogen · 2008-05-18 16:33:02

I think it is solved now. But I'm not 100% sure, I haven't experienced any lock ups in a while now. What I've done is that I've changed the fglrx driver to the radeonhd driver, since I do not need 3D Support this is suffice for me. So I did this:

In rc.conf I put !fglrx in the modules part and now my xorg.conf is edited to this:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Simple Layout"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection


Section "Module"
    Load  "dbe"      # Double buffer extension
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "i2c"

    SubSection "extmod"
        Option        "omit xfree86-dga"   # don't initialise the DGA extension
    EndSubSection
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "se"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier      "Mouse0"
  Driver          "mouse"
  Option    "Protocol"    "ExplorerPS/2"
  Option    "Buttons"    "7"
  Option    "ZAXisMapping" "4 5"
  Option    "ButtonMaapping" "1 2 3 6 7"
  Option    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"
    Driver      "radeonhd"
        Option       "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

And now everything seems to work. The config is kinda chubby, but it seems to work.

patogen · 2008-05-19 14:51:32

OK. Everything *seemed* to work, now X just shuts down randomly but not the whole computer:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80e053e]
1: [0xb7fe0420]
2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libxaa.so [0xb7b86419]
3: /usr/bin/X [0x816e226]
4: /usr/bin/X(CompositePicture+0x150) [0x81555a0]
5: /usr/bin/X [0x815b57f]
6: /usr/bin/X [0x8158435]
7: /usr/bin/X [0x814bc2e]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x2bf) [0x808c8ff]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x8073e3b]
10: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7da4396]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x205) [0x80731b1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

urxvt: X connection to ':0.0' broken, unable to recover, exiting.
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

      after 20 requests (20 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

      after 28115 requests (28082 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

xfce4-panel: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.
xinit:  connection to X server lost.

firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"

xfce4-menu-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
xfce4-weather-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
xfce4-mpc-plugin: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
/opt/firefox3-bin/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  7454 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I don't understand what's wrong.

Edit: I feel stupid, but I had old drivers + catalyst-utils left ... that's what made X crash. Hopefully now it will be stable ...

Last edited by patogen (2008-05-19 15:30:40)

metal · 2008-05-20 19:40:59

It looks how bug xaa. I don't now, does radeon driver support exa?

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#1 2008-05-11 09:07:49

Weird crash

#2 2008-05-12 18:35:13

Re: Weird crash

#3 2008-05-12 23:56:08

Re: Weird crash

#4 2008-05-18 16:33:02

Re: Weird crash

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Re: Weird crash

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