Hi,
I'm using Gnome on 8.1 RELEASE 64-bit using the NVIDIA driver and my X hangs at random intervals, sometimes a few weeks sometimes a few days. GDM won't restart, X won't let itself be killed and consume 100% of the CPU. If I go to a tty the console has garbled text. I can however send SIGSTOP to Xorg and that seems to calm things a bit.. but I'm still left in an unusable state.
I've also consistently seen "polkit-gnome-authen" experience core dumps. I searched online and some bug was filed (
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=148272) but I'm not sure if that is related. I rebooted and my system is now hung on the NVIDIA logo; previously it hung while the screensaver had activated.
I'm not sure what /var/crash is but this is what mine has:
Code:
[root@spock ~]# ls /var/crash
minfree
[root@spock ~]# cat /var/crash/minfree
2048
My dmesg, truncated:
Code:
[root@spock ~]# dmesg | egrep -i \(nvidia\|nv\) | grep -vi mcp55
TSC: P-state invariant
ACPI APIC Table: <Nvidia ASUSACPI>
acpi0: <Nvidia ASUSACPI> on motherboard
nvidia0: <GeForce 8600 GT> on vgapci0
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
vgapci0: child nvidia0 requested pci_enable_io
nvidia0: [ITHREAD]
ugen0.1: <nVidia> at usbus0
uhub0: <nVidia OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <nVidia> at usbus1
uhub1: <nVidia EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 0000007e
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, Channel 00000001
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 9, Channel 0000007e Instance 00000000 Intr 00000010
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 9, Channel 0000007e Instance 00000000 Intr 00000010
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 12, Ch 0000007e Cl 00000030 Off 00000104 Data 00000000
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 9, Channel 0000007e Instance 00000000 Intr 00000010
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 12, Ch 0000007e Cl 00000030 Off 00000100 Data 00000000
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 12, Ch 0000007e Cl 00000030 Off 00000104 Data 00000000
I have a hunch it is the driver.
-Alex