James, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product- page.aspx?pid=5486&dl=1#bios an update to your computer's buggy, insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (F5). When you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate how does this improve the situation?
For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette . Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. Also, you don't have to create a new bug report. Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible: 1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an apport-collect): sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date 2) Please make a comment specifically advising on if there was an improvement or not. 3) Please mark this report Status New. If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid. Thank you for your help. ** Tags added: bios-outdated-f5 ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical => Low ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587730 Title: graphic system freezes after a while, can still ssh into machine Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 16.04 desktop with all updates up to date Gigagyte GA-Z170 motherboard, Intel i7-6700 3.4gHz, 64GB RAM, Samsung 840 SSD, Gigabyte GEForce GT710 graphics (nvidia chipset) Very light load. A few terminal windows, a few Firefox pages, Thunderbird, and VirtualBox (with the extension pack loaded) running one small Linux VM with 512Mb memory (very lightly loaded as it's only running bind9). I think (but don't have perfect certainty on this) that some of the crashes have happened without VirtualBox running. Also running rsync so that backuppc on a separate machine can back it up over the network (backuppc has been a real lifesaver with all the reinstallations!) After booting the system runs happily for a while then the GUI freezes. This can take a few hours or up to a day or two. You can still ssh into the system, and if you do "top" it typically shows 100% CPU load on systemd-timesync. The same happens whether I use nouveau or the proprietary nvidia driver (361) I have tried a complete reinstallation (4 times already, starting to get quite frustrating) using the proprietary drivers and NOT using the proprietary drivers and the same still happens. The most recent time was with nouveau, and Xorg.log has a number of entries like this: (EE) [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing events are processed. (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x4e) [0x5652cde325ce] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (mieqEnqueue+0x253) [0x5652cde14083] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (QueuePointerEvents+0x52) [0x5652cdcec662] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f31f985c000+0x61f3) [0x7f31f98621f3] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f31f985c000+0x6a5d) [0x7f31f9862a5d] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5652cdc80000+0x94228) [0x5652cdd14228] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5652cdc80000+0xb96f2) [0x5652cdd396f2] (EE) 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f3202cef000+0x354a0) [0x7f3202d244a0] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (GiveUp+0x0) [0x5652cde37330] (EE) 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x7f3202cef000+0x354a0) [0x7f3202d244a0] (EE) 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7f3202debcf3] (EE) 11: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (WaitForSomething+0x1d7) [0x5652cde2f307] (EE) 12: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5652cdc80000+0x539ee) [0x5652cdcd39ee] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (0x5652cdc80000+0x57c33) [0x5652cdcd7c33] (EE) 14: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf0) [0x7f3202d0f830] (EE) 15: /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg (_start+0x29) [0x5652cdcc1f59] (EE) (EE) [mi] These backtraces from mieqEnqueue may point to a culprit higher up the stack. (EE) [mi] mieq is *NOT* the cause. It is a victim. (EE) [mi] EQ overflow continuing. 100 events have been dropped. Then at the end the last few are: [ 6265.543] [mi] Increasing EQ size to 1024 to prevent dropped events. [ 6265.543] [mi] EQ processing has resumed after 1070 dropped events. [ 6265.543] [mi] This may be caused by a misbehaving driver monopolizing the server's resources. What cna the problem possibly be, especially as 16.04 is meant to be a stable release and an Nvidia GT710 card is hardly bleeding-edge? Help greatly appreciated! ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 .tmp.unity_support_test.0: ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true Date: Wed Jun 1 13:22:13 2016 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: xenial DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: virtualbox, 5.0.18, 4.4.0-22-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:128b] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:36ec] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-01 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1) MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z170-D3H ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_HK:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_HK.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-22-generic root=UUID=79d1ab40-4431-445f-87bb-6a8d44370cee ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/24/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: F2 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: Z170-D3H-CF dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF2:bd07/24/2015:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnZ170-D3H:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnZ170-D3H-CF:rvrx.x:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: Z170-D3H dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2 xserver.bootTime: Wed Jun 1 13:14:17 2016 xserver.configfile: default xserver.devices: input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 6 input Power Button KEYBOARD, id 7 input Sleep Button KEYBOARD, id 8 input Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10 KEYBOARD, id 9 input Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop® 2.10 KEYBOARD, id 10 xserver.errors: Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2 xserver.video_driver: nouveau To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1587730/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
