Dear Maintainer,
Opening many evince windows (about 10 pdfs or more with graphics in)
causes X to freeze and error messages from nouveau (below) to be sent to
console. I can switch to console but after a while the system becomes
unresponsive. I can shutdown cleanly from console or power button.
window manager
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# i3 --version
i3 version 4.6 (2013-08-07, branch "tags/4.6") © 2009-2013 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
# dmesg | grep nouveau from successful boot:
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[ 2.534026] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x0cf200a1
[ 2.534029] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Chipset: GF116 (NVCF)
[ 2.534030] nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:01:00.0] Family : NVC0
[ 2.535156] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] checking PRAMIN for image...
[ 2.597223] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] ... appears to be valid
[ 2.597226] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] using image from PRAMIN
[ 2.597315] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] BIT signature found
[ 2.597317] nouveau [ VBIOS][0000:01:00.0] version 70.26.3a.00.01
[ 2.743537] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM type: GDDR5
[ 2.743540] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] RAM size: 1024 MiB
[ 2.743541] nouveau [ PFB][0000:01:00.0] ZCOMP: 0 tags
[ 4.024108] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] FAN control: PWM
[ 4.024113] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] fan management: disabled
[ 4.024115] nouveau [ PTHERM][0000:01:00.0] internal sensor: yes
[ 4.026866] nouveau [ DRM] VRAM: 1024 MiB
[ 4.026867] nouveau [ DRM] GART: 512 MiB
[ 4.026870] nouveau [ DRM] TMDS table version 2.0
[ 4.026871] nouveau [ DRM] DCB version 4.0
[ 4.026880] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 00: 02000300 00000000
[ 4.026881] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 01: 01000302 00020030
[ 4.026882] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 02: 04011380 00000000
[ 4.026884] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 03: 08011382 00020030
[ 4.026885] nouveau [ DRM] DCB outp 04: 02022362 00020010
[ 4.026886] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 00: 00001030
[ 4.026887] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 01: 00010130
[ 4.026888] nouveau [ DRM] DCB conn 02: 00002261
[ 4.027594] nouveau [ DRM] 3 available performance level(s)
[ 4.027596] nouveau [ DRM] 0: core 50MHz shader 101MHz memory 135MHz voltage 950mV
[ 4.027598] nouveau [ DRM] 1: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 324MHz voltage 950mV
[ 4.027600] nouveau [ DRM] 3: core 981MHz shader 1962MHz memory 2257MHz voltage 1062mV-1175mV
[ 4.027602] nouveau [ DRM] c: core 405MHz shader 810MHz memory 324MHz voltage 950mV fanspeed 40%
[ 4.031140] nouveau [ DRM] MM: using COPY1 for buffer copies
[ 4.112093] nouveau [ DRM] allocated 2560x1440 fb: 0x60000, bo ffff8804294b4800
[ 4.112207] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[ 4.183025] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[ 4.183026] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[ 4.183029] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.1.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
/var/log/syslog after freeze / crash (sanitized; many of these lines repeated):
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Oct 18 12:20:09 laika kernel: [589652.292517] nouveau E[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] write fault at 0x00003f8000 [COMPRESSED_SYSRAM] from BAR3/BAR_WRITE on channel 0x023fe37000 [unknown]
Oct 18 12:34:11 laika kernel: [ 673.130876] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP ch 1 [0x023fc11000 Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:34:11 laika kernel: [ 673.130884] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] ROP0 0x80000000 0x80000001
Oct 18 12:34:11 laika kernel: [ 673.130889] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] ROP1 0x80000000 0x80000000
Oct 18 12:34:11 laika kernel: [ 673.130893] nouveau E[PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] ROP2 0x80000000 0x80000000
Oct 18 12:34:39 laika kernel: [ 701.306675] nouveau E[ DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
Oct 18 12:35:40 laika kernel: [ 762.229600] nouveau E[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] playlist update failed
Oct 18 12:35:40 laika kernel: [ 762.241584] nouveau W[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] INTR 0x00000100: 0x0000000d
Oct 18 12:35:42 laika kernel: [ 764.242587] nouveau E[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] playlist update failed
Oct 18 12:35:45 laika kernel: [ 767.256303] nouveau E[PDISP][0000:01:00.0] chid 0 mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 0x000c5080
Oct 18 12:35:45 laika kernel: [ 767.256333] nouveau E[PDISP][0000:01:00.0] chid 0 mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 0x100c5080
Oct 18 12:35:47 laika kernel: [ 769.257695] nouveau E[PDISP][0000:01:00.0] chid 1 mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 0x000a5080
Oct 18 12:36:00 laika kernel: [ 782.577368] nouveau E[PDISP][0000:01:00.0] chid 0 mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 0x100c5080
Oct 18 12:36:00 laika kernel: [ 782.577392] nouveau E[PDISP][0000:01:00.0] chid 0 mthd 0x0080 data 0x00000000 0x100c5080
Oct 18 12:36:30 laika kernel: [ 811.838572] nouveau E[Xorg[2679]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0001 [Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:36:33 laika kernel: [ 814.839955] nouveau E[Xorg[2679]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0001 [Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:36:36 laika kernel: [ 817.841335] nouveau E[Xorg[2679]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0001 [Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:36:38 laika kernel: [ 819.842365] nouveau E[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] channel 2 [Xorg[2679]] kick timeout
Oct 18 12:36:41 laika kernel: [ 822.843639] nouveau E[Xorg[2679]]failed to idle channel 0xcccc0001 [Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:36:44 laika kernel: [ 825.845020] nouveau E[Xorg[2679]]failed to idle channel 0xcccc0001 [Xorg[2679]]
Oct 18 12:36:44 laika kernel: [ 825.845340] nouveau W[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] INTR 0x00000100: 0x0000000d
Oct 18 12:36:46 laika kernel: [ 827.846344] nouveau E[PFIFO][0000:01:00.0] playlist update failed