On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:55:54 -0800, Joe Riel wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:47:59 -0800 Joe Riel wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> > You can: > >> > > >> > 1/ Start the system with no xorg (console) and leave it so for > >> > sometine to check if the problem is still present (even with no x > >> > server). > >> > >> I'll attempt to try this. Might be painful working in a virtual > >> terminal all the time. Kind of limits what I can do. This is my > >> work machine... > > > > Got lucky, sort of. I was just working in a virtual terminal when > > the lockup occurred. That doesn't rule out X in that X was running > > (I had just opened the terminal and was reading a man page), > > however, it suggests the problem might not be with X. That is > > consistent with the observation that restarting gdm3 does not clear > > the fault. > > Hum... yes, then it can be something related to the kernel. > > >> > 2/ Review you kernel log, just in case ("cat /var/log/kern.log | > >> > grep input"). > > > > Found the following lines (more of same) in kern.log at the time of > > the lockup. However, I don't see them for other lockups (a lockup > > occurred while I was typing this email), so it could be a > > red-herring: > > > > Jan 15 09:20:58 gauss kernel: [164858.674186] [drm] nouveau > > 0000:01:00.0: nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 2 Jan 15 09:20:59 > > gauss kernel: [164859.749505] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: > > nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 1 Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: > > [164859.750491] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch > > 1/5 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x80000013 Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: > > [164859.750507] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource: > > DATA_ERROR, nStatus: BAD_ARGUMENT Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: > > [164859.750511] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH_ERROR - Ch 1/5 > > Class 0x008a Mthd 0x0300 Data 0x00000000:0x00000000 Jan 15 09:20:59 > > gauss kernel: [164859.750566] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: > > PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 1/4 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x8000001a Jan 15 > > 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750580] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: > > PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource: ILLEGAL_MTHD, nStatus: BAD_ARGUMENT > > PROTECTION_FAULT > > If X server is not running, where are these logs entries coming from? > (nouveau is the X driver for nvidia cards) >;-) Well, the X server was running. I was originally in X and switched to a virtual terminal. The lockup occurred while I was working in the virtual terminal. I searched google for that error message and found a few related bug reports in other forums. At least one user was experiencing very similar behavior (keyboard goes away). > > Anyway, the behaviour you are experiencing with the ps/2 keyboard > > is weird enough to fill a bug in Debian BTS, I would go for it. I'll do so. -- Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110115123346.46efebe8@gauss