Randomly my system (Wheezy) freezes, so that no mouse or keyboard
inbut is possible and
the last image displayed by the monitors is stuck.
I can still ssh to the affected computer by a remote computer.
Can anyone confirm this bug in that particular nvidia driver version?

I forgot to mention that I could grab the following dmesg output from
the affected
computer through a ssh connection right after it froze.

Feb 11 22:45:04 pc1 kernel: [15569.236289] NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has
fallen off the bus.
Feb 11 22:45:04 pc1 kernel: [15569.236296] NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has
fallen off the bus.

Please remove my previous message from this bug report.
I have accidentally send it from the wrong email address.
Keep this message instead. Thank you.

I forgot to mention that I could grab the following dmesg output from
the affected
computer through a ssh connection right after it froze.

Feb 11 22:45:04 pc1 kernel: [15569.236289] NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has
fallen off the bus.
Feb 11 22:45:04 pc1 kernel: [15569.236296] NVRM: GPU at 0000:02:00.0 has
fallen off the bus.

Is this something that started suddenly (e.g. after some upgrade) after
it was OK for a long time?
Is this a fresh wheezy installation done not long ago?
Is this a "grown system" upgradeded from whatever old release to wheezy?

Please try the newer drivers from wheezy/backports.


Andreas

Hi,
might be a hardware issue. It happens when I accidentally hit my PC case
and it mostly happens just after starting up. Usually it doesn't happen
after a longer while anymore.

Link to the old bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667684

Back then I could solve the issue by upgrading to version 304.37-1.
Now, I don't really remember when theses upgrades came in, I am using
nvidia-glx in version 304.88. So since a little while I have this random
freezes. I don't think it is a hardware related failure. Because after a reboot
(right after the system froze) my computer can run for hours without any
freezes.

No it is not a fresh installation. I installed the system when wheezy still was the
official testing release.

I will give it a go. Thanks!

So I installed the nvidia drivers from wheezy-backports. Here is the
listing from dpkg:

ii  glx-alternative-nvidia 0.4.0~bpo70+1
amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
rc libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32 304.88-1+deb7u1
amd64        simplifies replacing MESA libGL with GPU vendor libraries
(32-bit)
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 319.82-1~bpo70+1
amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 319.82-1~bpo70+1
i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 319.82-1~bpo70+1
i386         NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
ii  libnvidia-ml1:amd64 319.82-1~bpo70+1                   amd64
NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
rc  libxvmcnvidia1:amd64 304.88-1+deb7u1                    amd64
NVIDIA binary XvMC library
ii  nvidia-alternative 319.82-1~bpo70+1                   amd64
allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
rc  nvidia-common 20110426+1                         amd64        NVIDIA
binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-driver 319.82-1~bpo70+1                   amd64        NVIDIA
metapackage
ii  nvidia-glx 319.82-1~bpo70+1                   amd64
transition to nvidia-driver
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup 20131102+1~bpo70+1
amd64        cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-3.2.0-4-amd64 304.88+1+1+3.2.41-2
amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
ii  nvidia-kernel-common 20120630+3                         amd64
NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms 319.82-1~bpo70+1                   amd64
NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii  nvidia-settings 319.72-1~bpo70+1                   amd64        tool
for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-support 20120630+3                         amd64
NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 319.82-1~bpo70+1
amd64        NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii  nvidia-xconfig 319.72-1~bpo70+1                   amd64        X
configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 319.82-1~bpo70+1
amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver

Can you please check the above excerpt. Because there are still some
packages from version 304.88.
Is this all right?

  vv
  ^^

These packages are "Removed" but have "Conffiles remaining" as encoded
in the "rc" prefix of the line, that's fine.
Purging the packages would also remove their conffiles.


Andreas

Seems to still happen with the 340 series of drivers. I just had two
crashes in a row; the first one was a freeze while running, and the
second happened before X even finished booting when I restarted.
Relevant packages installed:

ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.5.1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libegl1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1 i386
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 340.65-2~bpo70+1 i386
ii libgles1-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libgles2-nvidia:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-all 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-all-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-headers-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-common 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-image-3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 3.16.7-ckt2-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii linux-image-amd64 3.16+63~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-alternative 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-driver 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-driver-bin 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-glx 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-modprobe 334.16-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-settings 319.72-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-support 20131102+1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64
ii nvidia-xconfig 340.46-1~bpo70+1 amd64
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 340.65-2~bpo70+1 amd64

The boot record in /var/log/messages contains an interesting warning
from the driver right before the crash:

Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.289566] NVRM: Your system is not
currently configured to drive a VGA console
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.289568] NVRM: on the primary VGA
device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.289568] NVRM: requires the use of
a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.289569] NVRM: drivers including,
but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.289570] NVRM: corruption and
stability problems, and is not supported.
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.529177] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0
has fallen off the bus.
Feb 11 10:24:36 tg2014 kernel: [   50.529197] NVRM: GPU at 0000:01:00.0
has fallen off the bus.

 From my own research I understand that the VGA/vesafb warning is
because this machine is booting in EFI mode where there is no 'raw' VGA
device available, only an EFI framebuffer device.

There is some older discussion on the Nvidia forums at

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/537302/linux/reproducible-nvrm-gpu-at-0000-01-00-0-has-fallen-off-the-bus-both-screens-black-xorg-at-100-/1/

The final post in that thread (from 2013/11/13) asserts that the issue
may be due to powermizer settings.

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